Children

Schoolhouse Rock! taught us language, math, and how bills become laws. Years later, Histeria! taught us history. Now we have a new animated series that teaches today's children how to cope with emotional stress.

Oh, the excitement of Winter Break! Two weeks of holiday leftovers, and presents, and family visits, and fighting, and giving time-outs, and tears... WOW! That escalated quickly. Any parent knows how quickly the thrill of a break can lead to cabin fever.

A great big "thank you" to everyone who came out to support our 6th Annual Dollar Drive Thru to help end child hunger in our area. Thanks to the weather for holding out... Thank you to the volunteers from On Staff USA and Loaves and Fishes who kept six Drive Thru locations staffed around town...

Early this year I learned a horrible truth about the foster care system. Displaced children are often dropped off at their foster parents' home with their belongings in a garbage bag. Can you imagine? You're a scared child already going through hard times at home, so much so that it's in your best interest to live with strangers, and everything you own is in a trash bag...