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6 Ways to Keep Your Teen Active this Winter

The winter months come with a number of challenges from the shorter days to the frigid temperatures. While hunkering down inside and sitting on...

Helping Teens Create New Years Resolutions

January offers a clean slate and a new year of possibilities. Teens (and their adults) may take this time to set new goals and...

The Dawn of a New Era of Maturity: Supporting Our Growing Teen

It starts with an eye roll, a slammed door, muttering under their breath as they stomp away, and you wonder when your sweet child...

Why Parenting Teenagers Wears Me The Heck Out

How I recall those sleepless nights when my kids were newborns. Those nights morphed into long days carrying chunky toddlers, then chasing precocious preschoolers....

Holiday Gift Guide 2023: Buy Local in Toledo

Find unique gifts for everyone on your list while enjoying the holiday spirit by supporting our community. From books and treats for the kids...

Swanton Library’s November 2023 Virtual Book Clubs for Youth

Swanton Library continues to offer virtual do-it-at-home book clubs for all ages. All participants get to keep the book. The four age categories are:...

2023 Toledo Area Holiday Activity Guide

Winter is upon us, and stores are already stocking up on Christmas trees and holiday decorations. Before you know it, holiday music will be...

How to Pivot when the Plan Doesn’t Work

By Lori Orlinsky There is no job more overwhelming than being a parent. Between school, after care, sports practice, dance lessons, tutoring and doctor appointments,...

So, What Are Your (Latchkey) Kids Are Doing After School?

Every year, millions of children head home after school to an empty house because school clubs/sport programs have been cut, after-school supervision is expensive,...

Live Well Toledo: Nonprofit Builds a Healthier Future

Live Well Greater Toledo is a diverse collaboration of community leaders and organizations working together to promote policy, systems and environmental change for a...

Personal Trainers for Parents: BeLove Parenting

Many of us have thought about the benefits of personal training. If you’ve participated in some type of personal training, you realize how the people who really understand our strengths and deficiencies can develop strategies that can help us grow and succeed.

What Universal School Choice Means for Ohio students

Universal school choice has come to Ohio. With passage of the two-year budget bill in July, the state legislature approved new funding that makes all...