Adaptive Clothing Hits the Mainstream
For some parents, the morning ritual of getting their child dressed is a dreaded battle, a frustration exasperated by buttons in wrong places, seams that dig into skin, tags that itch, shoes impossible to put on correctly and fabric that feels inhumane to sensitive skin. Putting clothes on a child with a disability – whether […]
Taking the Blues Out of Jeans
By Christina Elston Stephanie Alves started sewing at age 10, and grew up with a brother with developmental disabilities. The clothing available made it truly challenging for him to dress himself. This was in the 1970s, when there wasn’t even Velcro on tennis shoes. “When I was a teenager, my mom said, ‘Why don’t you […]
Shooting Stars Details
Update Shooting Stars 2014 Special thanks to all the families that attended and participated in this year’s Shooting Stars Cover Kids Contest at Plaza El Segundo on Saturday, October 11. Your child’s L.A. Parent mock cover will be emailed or in the mail soon! Winners will be announced in our January issue. Please make sure to […]
Trending Birthday Party Themes for Kids
As parents, we look forward to so many milestones once a baby arrives. We wait for these moments with patience, but also little to no control. We don’t know when a baby’s first giggle or first steps will happen, or when they’ll utter their first understandable word. But other milestone moments are curated by us, […]
Using Fitness, Community and the Seasons to Pull Through the Pandemic
As I drove through Inglewood recently with my son riding shotgun, I turned to him and asked, “Do you smell that?” He looked at me with the typical annoyance of a tweenager who has been interrupted while scrolling and said, “All I smell is pollution and gas.” Although my video-game-loving son couldn’t smell what I […]
Educators, mentors and advocates celebrate their diversity
Amy Faigin fell into advocacy at a young age, and into teaching by accident. “When I realized at a pretty early age that ableism existed, I was immediately angry about it,” says Faigin, who is autistic and highly gifted. “And I just have never been a person who could keep my mouth shut, so I […]
Letting Kids Explore Their Sense of Style
My high school cafeteria was its own kind of runway, a place where the popular kids paraded their personalities and latest outfits while the timid, clumsy and fashion-starved hoped the ground would open up and swallow them whole. I would like to say I existed somewhere in the middle, but I would be lying. Then, […]
A New Career as a Volunteer
Meet our 2016 Amazing Mom, Julie Weinstein To illustrate the icy cold of the Arctic described in “Eve of the Emperor Penguin” from the “Magic Tree House” series, Julie Weinstein taught her second-grade book-club readers to make their own ice cream. The students learned how a liquid can freeze into a solid – and that […]
