All posts tagged kids

  • Whiny Wednesday: Planning for Summer
    Whiny Wednesday: Planning for Summer
    May 9, 2012

    We are in the home stretch now. All the long school vacations are done. One more three-day weekend (Memorial Day) and we’ll say goodbye to teachers, the school routine, and the daily grind. No snow days this year in Newburyport makes for ...

  • Whiny Wednesday – Where the Dinosaurs Roam
    Whiny Wednesday – Where the Dinosaurs Roam
    September 7, 2011

    The big kids are back in school. This means our playgrounds are a lot quieter. We don’t have to worry about our toddlers being knocked down by mammoth ten year olds. No teenagers are giving our preschoolers the evil eye because their tr ...

  • Whiny Wednesday – Joppa Flats
    Whiny Wednesday – Joppa Flats
    August 24, 2011

    This is it, the last Whiny Wednesday to be written during summer vacation! Some of you are sad, some of you are ecstatic, and some (like me) are having mixed feelings about greeting the new school year. Regardless of how you feel, I am su ...

  • Whiny Wednesday – Beach It!
    Whiny Wednesday – Beach It!
    June 29, 2011

    We live on the North Shore, it’s summertime, and the kids are out of school. A trip to the beach is a no-brainer. My mission this week is to give you the lowdown on some of the most family friendly beaches in the area.

  • Whiny Wednesday – Spencer Pierce Little Farm
    Whiny Wednesday – Spencer Pierce Little Farm
    June 15, 2011

    With the arrival of June comes the opening of Newbury’s Spencer Pierce Little Farm, a place my family could visit over and over again. There is something about kids and animals. No matter how grumpy my boys are, a few minutes of patting ...

  • Whiny Wednesday- Strawbery Banke
    Whiny Wednesday- Strawbery Banke
    June 1, 2011

    Last summer, on a whim, my family visited the Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth and spent an amazing day in the past. If your kids are like mine, they hear the word museum and they start groaning. But this is a different kind of museum. ...

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    Newburyport Youth Services
    May 26, 2011

    Serving the City’s Younger Citizens: Newburyport Youth Services By Kathleen Downey On a raw and dreary April afternoon during Newburyport’s school vacation week, two classrooms inside the Kelley School were ...

  • Whiny Wednesday – Mad for Mini-Golf
    Whiny Wednesday – Mad for Mini-Golf
    May 18, 2011

    I am not terribly athletic and, being the mother of three boys, this puts me at a disadvantage. However, there is one “sport” that I am quite good at. I have mad skills in mini-golf!

  • Race to Nowhere
    Race to Nowhere
    May 17, 2011

    A concerned mother turned filmmaker aims her camera at the high-stakes, high-pressure culture that has invaded our schools and our children’s lives, creating unhealthy, disengaged, unprepared and stressed-out youth.