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How to get your teens to put down the screens and read this spring break
Confession: My teens don’t read, or at least I didn’t think they really read until I talked to Kaye Newton, author of “How to Get Your Screen-Loving Kids to Read Books for Pleasure.” ($12.36, Linland...
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Which is more expensive the first year? A baby, a puppy or a kitten?
I bet you know the answer to this one. The folks at SafeWise, though, felt the need to calculate the costs. The baby costs about $2,000 (breastfed) to $3,739 (formula-fed) a year (not counting day...
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20 very Texas things to do with the kids in Austin this weekend, March 2-4
It’s a great weekend to be living in Texas. You can explore the University of Texas, eat a real cowboy breakfast, celebrate Texas Independence Day and go fly a kite. Daniel McLean, 7, gets excited as...
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Why are one-third of our kids overweight? Some uncomfortable childhood...
I just read this startling statistic from the American Academy of Pediatrics: 41.5 percent of teens ages 16-19 are overweight (85th percentile for body mass index), 20.5 percent are obese, (95...
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Plan ahead: What are you doing this spring break in Austin? We’ve got your...
Spring break is coming— a time when kids are screaming for joy at all the possibilities of fun; a time when parents are left trying to find a one-week camp for their kids, cobbling together care or...
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Does your daughter want to advocate like a boss? Girls Empowerment Network...
Girls Empowerment Network has a cool program for girls who are in middle school, high school of college. Girls Advocacy Day teaches girls how to “advocate like a boss” on topics such as dating violence...
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Just how ready are kids to pursue STEM careers? ACT has new data
We’ve seen more emphasis on science, technology, engineering and math — STEM — in schools in recent years. Are America’s kids making any headway? What about girls versus boys? What about kids at an...
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Are you ready for Sunday’s time change? Here are our tips
The time change is coming. On Sunday at 2 a.m., you’ll set your clock ahead one hour (we know you’ll stay up all night just to do this). Benjamin Villalpando needs his extra hour of sleep. Nicole...
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Author of ‘A Girl’s Guide to Joining the Resistance’ talks feminism and “The...
Emma Gray is at South by Southwest for the lighter side of her job. She’ll be doing her podcast “Here to Make Friends” at 5 p.m. Saturday at the Fairmount Wisteria Room. The podcast takes a feminist...
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A new feminism: Author Elle Luna wants women (and men, too) to find their...
Artist, author Elle Luna is trying to create feminine power one woman at a time with her new book “Your Story Is Your Power: Free Your Feminine Voice,” (Workman Publishing, $17.95), which she...
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Study: Number of kids treated for opioids in hospital intensive care units...
If you think the opioid epidemic is just an adult or teenager problem, a new study says otherwise. The study published in the March issue of “Pediatrics” from the American Academy of Pediatrics looked...
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This year’s flu had nothing on the 1918 flu; UT researcher knows why
This flu season wasn’t pleasant. In fact, at times it has felt like everyone around us had either had it or knew someone close to them who got it. Sometimes it wasn’t even just one strain that people...
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Are your embryos safe? How fertility center in Austin keeps tissues viable...
This month, two fertility facilities acknowledged that their storage systems have failed. Pacific Fertility Clinic in San Francisco said that there had been a liquid nitrogen failure in one of its...
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University of Texas research develops app to help you get colon cancer screening
Could an app help save you from colon cancer? Possibly. A researcher at Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin has developed an app that can help explain to you the benefits of each...
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More than two dozen things to do with the family this spring break weekend,...
Spring break won’t go on forever, but this weekend is still full of great family-friendly activities in and around Austin. It might rain on Saturday, so be prepared. 1-2-3 Andres Check out our list of...
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Will breastfeeding save you from heart disease later in life? Study might...
Could breastfeeding an infant for at least six months have an added benefit for Mom? Could it actual reduce heart disease? That’s what researchers at the University of Pittsburgh tried to figure out....
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Top heart surgeon Charles Fraser Jr. coming to Dell Children’s, Dell Medical...
Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas will be creating the Texas Center for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease, and it will do it with one of the world’s most well-known pediatric heart...
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Austin bombings: How do you talk to your kids about what’s happening?
Parents, you might be wondering what you’re supposed to say to your children about the recent bombings in Austin. How do you keep them safe, keep them informed, yet not scare them? What is too much...
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What not to donate to Goodwill
Tuesday night an employee was injured when he reached his hand into a box at the Goodwill on Brodie Lane and found an artillery simulator. It made a loud boom heard throughout my neighborhood and sent...
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Watch some super spellers, celebrate art and more fun weekend events for...
It should be a beautiful weekend for going out and stirring up some family fun. Expect highs in the low 80s and clear skies, except Sunday, when it might rain in the morning. Spellers Nihar Saireddy...
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