| Despite Everything, There's Nothing Like Being a Mom |
| from Florida Times Union |
| Sunday is Mother's Day. Being a mother has been the most rewarding experience in my life, but let's face it - being a mother is a big responsibility. Now I'm not talking about forgetting to put the kids' clothes in the dryer so they have something to wear to school, or after staying up half the night folding and putting away laundry, you end up the next morning pouring orange juice on the cereal. |
|
| Cancer Ama's Children to Visit Wales ; Trip is to Meet Their Welsh 'Family' |
| from South Wales Echo |
| THE orphaned children of Ghanaian cancer victim Ama Sumani are tovisit the home of the couple who plan to adopt them in South Wales. Ama's children Samede, seven, and daughter Mary, 16, will make the trip from Ghana in the next month. During the meeting, in the Ghanaian capital Accra, the children took a shine to the dad, according to close friend of Ama's, Janet Symmons. |
|
| Maine Shares in Effort to Get Children Moving |
| from Bangor Daily News |
| Children from around the state participated Wednesday in a project called All Children Exercising Simultaneously. In Corinna, children at Kidsville Preschool took part in games for an hour as part of the program that's sponsored by the Maine Governor's Council on Physical Activity. Gov. John Baldacci was at Farrington Elementary School in Augusta where he talked to a group of third- through-sixth graders about the significance of exercising. |
|
| Field Trip With a Ripple Effect ; Land Trusts Catering to Students Emphasize the Importance of Getting Outdoors and Foster a New Generation of Conservationists. |
| from Portland Press Herald |
| This week, the York Land Trust's Hilton-Winn property became a classroom for the fifth-graders at York Middle School -a living laboratory designed to teach them about the value of nature and being outdoors. "We're helping the York Land Trust find what they have on this land." The 2005 release of "Last Child in the Woods," a bestselling book, sparked a nationwide debate about what its author, Richard Louv, termed "nature deficit disorder," the disconnect that today's children have with the outdoors. |
|
