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Your Well Child: Clear-Eyed About Vision and Other Health Screenings February is Low Vision Awareness Month — and a good time to, well, focus on your child’s healthy vision and other growth and development, even as the pandemic and social distancing continues. It may...
New U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Infants and Children: Skip the Sugar Sugar is not so sweet for babies’ and childrens’ health, according to new dietary guidelines for Americans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In fact, the report recommends babies have no added...
What Kids Have Learned During the COVID-19 Pandemic How important is it, in the middle of a pandemic, that your young child is reading ahead of schedule or can play soccer or the violin? After months of stay-at-home orders and less-than-ideal home schooling, many of...
February 2021 Books February is Black History Month! Celebrate with these books… The ABC’s of Black History by Rio Cortez, illustrated by Lauren Semmer Told in rhyming text, this book follows the alphabet as we learn all about black history of the U.S. and around the...
February 2021 Amazing Activities February is Black History Month! Read a picture book by a black writer or illustrator together. Groundhog Day! Teach your child to make shadow puppets and look out for six more weeks of winter! February is also National Bird Feeding...
January 2021 Amazing Activities What is a goal for this year that you and your child can commit to achieving? January is National Hobby Month! What is a hobby your child can start this month? Do 15 sit-ups with your child! Trivia Day! What’s a random or fun fact you...
January 2021 Books January 18th is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Learn about how this leader changed the course of the civil rights movement with these books… I am Martin Luther King, Jr. (Ordinary People Change the World) by Brad Meltzer, illustrated by Christopher...
First 5 LA’s Hall of History: U.S. Presidential Inauguration Day! What could be more exciting than watching history being made? Mark your calendar for Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 so you and your kids can share in the celebration of a once-every-four-years Federal...
Talking to Kids about Economic Downturn and the Pandemic 2020 was the “Year of Explaining”: “Mom, why can’t we go see Grandma?” “Why do I have to wear a mask?” “Why can’t I visit my best friend?” And now, as we enter the challenges of 2021, we might find ourselves...
COVID-19 Vaccine Update: Questions and Answers With recent, record highs of infections and deaths in California and the U.S. from COVID-19, the pandemic is far from over. But the recent approval and beginning of distribution of COVID-19 vaccines now offer hope that...