When news of pandemics and school shootings create anxiety, and cyberbullying causes fear, artistic expression, and present-moment awareness can instill calm. If the world feels more stressful to you than ever before, you’re not alone. COVID-19 and its unending variants, school shootings, cyberbullying, threats of nuclear war, climate catastrophes and a looming recession have us […]
Postcards from Cambria
Memories mix with new discoveries when the writer visits his old stomping ground on the Central Coast. I’ve been a little reluctant to recommend my old stomping grounds to a larger audience as a place to visit, but then Smithsonian magazine just named Cambria one of the “Top 15 Small Towns to Visit.” So, the […]
Destination Mission Bay
Mission Bay offers vacationing families access to the very best of San Diego. School’s out for summer and most families are in need of a getaway — something fun for the kids that will keep parents from pulling their hair out planning and budgeting for a vacation. Thankfully, in San Diego’s Mission Bay there is […]
Moms Doing Good
Moms across the county share their stories of how and why they give. Julia Bendis City: Rancho Santa Margarita Family: Husband and two sons ages 17 and 22 How do you give back? “Since Day 1 of the war in Ukraine I got on the phone connecting with volunteers, civilians and military personnel on the […]
Cabo Primo
At the tip of Baja, going chic to chic for a week, and learning the wahoo Watusi “You see, Sweetheart, you can always tell where the fish are by looking at the birds. You find fish where they are diving into the water. Ricardo is probably taking us where those birds are over there.” The […]
Summer Camp Success
How Special Needs Camps Adapted to a Pandemic Two years of pandemic transformed everyday normal moments in life into the annoyingly and sometimes comically difficult. We often complained. We grumbled. We worried how we would do things. Then somehow we just got on with it. Life can be like that every day for kids with […]
Sensory Sensitivity Strategies
A local pediatric occupational therapist and mom to a neurodivergent child offers tips to help minimize sensory overload during social outings. Think back to a time when you had a debilitating headache or fever. The sound of a door closing was like nails on a chalkboard. The slightest peek of sunshine made your eyeballs feel […]
Camp Ready
Orange County summer camps reflect and learn from 2021, and look forward to a new summer. For many Orange County summer camps, 2021 was “more normal.” And while the early part of 2022 has proved challenging due to the highly contagious Omicron variant, camp directors are hopeful for the summer ahead. “We’re keeping the arts […]
Camp, Sweet Camp
Considering pandemic-induced mental health concerns in children, summer camp might be just what they need. A major 2021 analysis in the Journal of the American Medical Association revealed an unsettling trend about the current children of the world: Depression and anxiety symptoms during COVID-19 have doubled, compared with pre-pandemic estimates. As a parent, you might, […]
Re-Defining Normal
OC superintendents look back, look ahead at 2021-2022 school year. Putting the weirdest school year in the nation’s history behind them, Orange County’s 2021/2022 school year remains a work-in-progress for staff, students and parents. At nearly the halfway point, things aren’t yet back to normal, and there are still unknowns ahead, but it seems a […]
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