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Everyday Heroes Activity Center Returns to the Maltz Museum

By Submitted to Northeast Ohio Thrive
May 10, 2019

 From the Maltz Museum

The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage is proud to announce a summer installation for younger audiences. Back by popular demand, The Everyday Heroes Activity Center will open for the second year in the Museum’s special exhibition gallery space. Children are invited to discover their own everyday superpowers, such as kindness, compassion, listening, and helping through hands-on activities. From Painting Kindness Rocks to Building a Better World Lego Station to Zooming around the Good Mood Movement Area, young families can explore values of being an everyday hero. The Everyday Heroes Activity Center will be open during regular Museum hours, June 4 – August 18 (2929 Richmond Road, Beachwood; 216-593-0575; maltzmuseum.org).

 

David Schafer, Managing Director of the Maltz Museum says, “In each of us, there is a hero. Inside, we are strong enough, brave enough, and courageous enough to make choices that lift others up. Sometimes, we must even lift ourselves up first so that we can help someone else.”

 

The Everyday Heroes Activity Center will feature interactive stations where children can enjoy books, crafts, movement, and more. Examples of stations include:

 

  • Make Your Own Capes and Masks
  • Zoom Around the Good Mood Movement Area
  • Paint Kindness Rocks to Keep and Share
  • Build a Better World with Jumbo Legos
  • Be the Hero of Your Own Story at the Puppet Theater
  • And more!

 

In addition, guests can participate in an Everyday Hero Story Tour, which is a self-guided, hands-on tour using a new children’s book to explore the Museum’s core exhibition, An American Story. Discover the heroic qualities of a family moving to a new country on this newly designed tour created to engage younger audiences.  

 

In partnership with Bellefaire Jewish Children’s Bureau on their 150th anniversary, the Museum honors those standing up and speaking out for children who are vulnerable such as those at-risk and with special needs, through shared thematic programming.

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Take the Grandkids to a Park – And Survive (It’ll Be Fun, We Promise)

By Karen Shadrach
May 10, 2019
   It is important to try your best to keep to the children’s regular schedules. If they are used to having a bottle or snack at 10, stop play for a little rest and rejuvenate. Lunchtime at noon? Stop and have your picnic at that time. Always leave the park before the children become exhausted-meltdowns are not pretty and especially difficult for grandparents to handle. ...
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Northeast Ohio Grandparent: Sometimes It Takes a Village to Feed a Grandchild

By Submitted to Northeast Ohio Thrive
March 20, 2019

 

By John Selick IV

 

There is a lot of truth to the old adage “it takes a village to raise a child.”

 

My wife and I welcomed a daughter to our already full house of children, a fourth child to a blended family of preteen siblings. We may have been running out of room in our home, but we had plenty of room in our hearts to welcome this little girl into our lives. She is surrounded by a loving family of parents, sisters and a brother, and her grandparents. The grandparents are important members of this village.

 

You’ve probably heard how hard the chef career is: they’re rarely home, they work long weekends, they miss holidays. It’s all true. It’s a tough career where I’ve had to make family sacrifices. To make it more complicated, my wife is in this business, too.

 

We couldn’t be successful in our careers if it wasn’t for our parents, who are able to help with the children. The kids are lucky to have grandma and grandpa be there for them while we are at work. They genuinely care about how the kids are doing in school and what they want to eat. The grandparents spoil them with foods they love, but of course we have some preferences we want for them, as well.

 

A Gentle Clash

 

I’m into fresh ingredients when I cook at work and at home. I also prefer organic for some ingredients. She won’t say it, but I could see the look in my mother-in-law’s eyes when I loaded the fridge with homemade baby food – she thought I was nuts. She raised her own children with store-bought baby food and they turned out just fine. Who does this guy think he is with his sweet potato-spinach-apple concoction?

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Fish with the Grandkids: Indulge this Gill-ty Pleasure

By Paris Wolfe
March 20, 2019
With two generations of fishing instruction under his belt, grandparents know to limit expectations when fishing with young ones. There’s fishing and there’s fishing with kids, and they’re not in any way similar. ...
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Role Players: Step Up to Step-Grandparenting

By Paris Wolfe
January 15, 2019
When families merge, new grandchildren often are a happy offshoot of the newly formed family. We've got a few suggestions to help navigate the step-grandparent role. Get ready to manage any bumps in the relationship with love, a sense of humor and an open heart. ...
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What Kid Wouldn’t Remember Skating with Grandma and Grandpa? Make Memories at Wade Oval

By Submitted to Northeast Ohio Thrive
January 2, 2019
Warm up with a few turns on the ice at The Rink at Wade Oval in University Circle. Kids of all ages (and we're talking you, Boomers) can rent a pair of skates and see if the ice is just as hard as you remember it. ...
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Give the Gift of Camp This Holiday Season

By Marie Elium
December 10, 2018

Every holiday season, parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles are faced with the difficult decision of what to gift to children. This year, as part of your holiday gift list, consider the gift of camp.

Camp provides children with a healthy environment of organized activities, free play, friendship building, problem-solving, and more. It offers experiential, energetic, and interactive activities that are a healthy respite from too much screen time.

Find the right camp by using the American Camp Association’s Find a Camp tool. You can search by activity, cost, location, and more. Find a Camp connects over 1.2 million families with camp each year.

As the holiday season approaches, offer the children in your life a gift that will provide them the opportunity for experiential learning and growth — plus memories, skills, and experiences they will cherish their entire lives.

Click here to print a free “gift of camp” certificate. Tuck it in a new backpack, roll it in a new sleeping bag, wrap it around a new flashlight — or put it in a traditional gift box complete with colorful paper and a bow. No matter how it’s delivered, imagine the delight when the gift is opened, and the child discovers that camp is in his or her future.


Looking for more information about summer camps in the region? Make plans to attend Northeast Ohio Parent’s Camp Fair 2019. Click here for more information.

 

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Grandparenting: Giving the Giving Gene

By Sue Botos
November 13, 2018
No one is saying you have to skip giving a wrapped gift or two to your grandkids this Christmas. But what if you gave them something extra, something that they could give year after year as they grow older? We're talking about the gift of giving, and our experts can tell you how to do it. (Just don't forget to have something under the tree, too!) ...
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