Tag: parenting
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Colorado author hopes new children’s book inspires kids, parents to get off screens, go outside
A booboo alert has been sounded. Katie Vieira’s 6-year-old and 3-year-old are outside pretending to light a fire with two rocks, and one has sustained an owie. It’s a natural outcome for kids playing outside versus staying glued to their iPads, and Vieira is OK with it. “Those are one of the risks,” said the…
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Colorado Springs nonprofit, restaurant team up to teach cooking skills to kids with special needs
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With the help from a professional chef, 14 kids with developmental or intellectual disabilities took a crack at making sushi through a program designed to foster independence and connection. Part of The Resource Exchange’s “Cooking Time” program, the pre-teens and teens chopped up avocados and rolled up fish and rice with seaweed at Rock N’…
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Families accuse ex-Colorado Springs evaluator of tainting bitter custody case with biased testimony
Some of the cases involve allegations of sex assault and drug abuse.
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Christian audio drama/comedy ‘Adventures in Odyssey’ comes to life in celebrating 1,000th episode
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save An experimental radio program that debuted in 1987 on Christian stations to counter a rise in violent cartoons on television and the advent of sexually suggestive music videos on MTV remains so popular among children and adults that it’s marking a fantastical accomplishment. Conservative Christian…
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Christian audio drama/comedy ‘Adventures in Odyssey’ comes to life in celebrating 1,000th episode
An experimental radio program that debuted in 1987 on Christian stations to counter a rise in violent cartoons on television and the advent of sexually suggestive music videos on MTV remains so popular among children and adults that it’s marking a fantastical accomplishment. Conservative Christian communications organization Focus on the Family will celebrate this year’s…
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Pitkin County judge wrongly held mother in contempt, appeals court finds
A Pitkin County judge issued a faulty contempt order that revoked a mother’s parenting time for three summers without addressing the required factors, Colorado’s second-highest court ruled earlier this month. After Vanessa Kirianoff-Brown did not transfer custody of her child to her ex-husband over two holiday weekends, he moved to hold her in contempt of…
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Denver magistrate may resolve dispute between parents over whether to vaccinate child against COVID-19, appeals court says
Colorado’s second-highest court last week clarified that trial judges need not find a child is endangered before they break an impasse between two parents who cannot agree about which course of action is best. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals agreed a Denver magistrate appropriately sided with a father who wanted his child…