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Three Ways to Get the Kids Outside During Your Extra Hour of Daylight Saving Time Daylight
We are currently living as an “inside nation.” Kids are spending 50% less time outdoors than a generation ago. By age 8, they’re on screens up to 6.5 hours a day, and children’s anxiety levels are through the roof. With daylight saving time around the corner (March 8), what better way to use that extra […]
SoCal Special Olympics Soccer Team is Hosting Tryouts for the 2020 Season
Attention soccer players ages 16-25: Here’s a chance to play the game you love and promote friendship and inclusion. The L.A. Galaxy Special Olympics Unified soccer team is hosting tryouts at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson March 29. The co-ed team has slots for 20 athletes, including Special Olympics athletes ages 16-25 and Unified […]
7 SoCal Gardens for Kids
Southern California is a year-round outdoor kind of place, but spring is still a great excuse to visit our beautiful local gardens. Here are seven that provide flora and fun for all ages. South Coast Botanic Garden This Rancho Palos Verdes oasis covers 87 lush acres with more than 2,500 different species of plants, plus […]
Kids Sleep Tips for Daylight Saving Time
On March 8, we turn our clocks forward one hour to switch to Daylight Saving Time, meaning your whole family will lose an hour of sleep. Neurologist Alon Avidan, MD, director of the UCLA Sleep Disorders Center, offers tips for making the transition – and getting better sleep in general. What can we do to […]
See Disney’s Secret Stash
If you’re a big Disney fan, you probably know that 2020 is the 65th anniversary of Disneyland, but it’s also the 50th anniversary of the Disney Archives. This repository of all things Disney is sharing some of its incredible treasures with the public in a new exhibit, “Inside the Walt Disney Archives: 50 Years of […]
Tween Time: Four Windows into History
Take your tween on a trip to the past – recent and ancient – this month through art, theater, music and nature. The Skirball exhibit “El Sueño Americano|The American Dream: Photographs by Tom Kiefer,” which closes March 8, takes an artful look at the personal belongings (dubbed “potentially lethal” or “nonessential”) that border officials seized from migrants attempting to enter the U.S. […]
Celebrate Spring with Blossoms, Wild Times and Tomatomania
St. Patrick’s Day isn’t the only reason to think green this month. Spring is also being celebrated all around the Southland. Start your March with a Blossom Hunt at the South Coast Botanic Garden. Through May 31, visitors can learn about the history and significance of the rose, cherry and poppy blossoms that populate the garden – […]
Celebrate Peacocks and Butterflies at 5 Spots
Butterflies and peacocks, two of the most colorful species on Earth, find themselves in the spotlight locally in March. The Los Angeles County Arboretum’s annual Peacock Day honors its relationship with peafowl, which dates to the 1880s when Elias “Lucky” Baldwin lived where the Arboretum now stands. A peacock costume contest, story time and informational walking tours […]
4 Ways to Get into the St. Patrick’s Day Spirit
Dance a jig, search for gold and parade your green at these events leading up to St. Patrick’s Day March 17. “St. Patrick’s Day In Ireland” comes to Bank of America Performing Arts Center in Thousand Oaks March 12. This lively stage show features Celtic music and high-stepping Irish dance from Connor Reider (“The Chieftains,” “An Irish Christmas”) and multi-instrumentalists from the […]
Our 7 Favorite March Events for L.A. Families
At our favorite events for L.A. families in March, you’ll meet Daniel Tiger, a T. rex, SpongeBob a detective and some pigeons, plus fly kites and blow bubbles.
Our 5 Fave Los Angeles Weekend Freebies (Feb. 29-March 1)
Our favorite free events for L.A. families this weekend feature marionettes, baby scientists, papyrus, a silent disco and gallery games.
What You Need to Know About Coronavirus
The virus now known as COVID-19, first reported in December, continues to spread, and as of mid-February had infected more than 72,000 people in China, more than 800 in other countries and around 15 in the U.S., including 10 in California. This is the latest in the coronavirus family, a large family of viruses. There […]
Could Your Child Be a Young Hero?
The annual Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes is now open to applicants ages 8 to 18 across the U.S. and Canada. Established in 2001 by author T.A. Barron, the prize honors 25 young leaders who have made a positive difference to people and the environment. Fifteen winners receive $10,000 each to support their service work […]
On Grief, Public Memorials and Our Children
To be a parent is to want to give our children the world. We hope to protect their innocence as long as we can, to shield them from bullies and bad news, even though we know that “the world” holds as much pain as it does joy, and that our arms are not long enough, […]
Three L.A. Gardens to Visit After Dark
In most parts of the country, a nighttime hike during February would mean zipping up a heavy coat and lacing up rugged boots. In L.A. gardens, where February is more like pre- spring than winter, that much bundling up isn’t required. Here are three good reasons to take the kids out after dark. Descanso Gardens […]
Get a Jolt of Volta
Cirque du Soleil’s 41st production, “Volta,” is an exciting combination of the old and the new. The show, on one hand, offers a vibrant array of the sensational acrobatic feats and spectacular visual design that people have come to expect from Cirque. “Volta,” however, also displays imaginative, never-before-seen Soleil stunts. The fast-paced action was inspired […]
Dream, Explore, Create in Octavia Lab
The library was once the place we ventured to research, study, check out books. Along came the internet, and some of us began viewing libraries as halls of dusty irrelevance. In response, the Los Angeles Public Library has for some time positioned itself as a hub of state-of-the-art technology and learning, and its latest foray […]