Mom & Baby Issue
Growing Families Through Surrogacy; Postpartum Angels Lighten the Load; Raising Emotionally Competent Kids; Summer Camp Guide
Going on a Frog Hunt: Turn Searching for Croakers Into a Springtime Ritual
May is a great month to look for frogs. For starters, they’re making a lot of noise at this time of year. That’s because now…
Gnocchi With Spring Vegetables: An Italian Main Course to Make Together
For as long as I can remember, my daughter’s favorite Italian dish has been gnocchi (pronounced NYOH-kee), a fluffy pasta dumpling usually made with potato….
How Do I Know If My Baby Has Tongue-Tie?
The benefits of breastfeeding through a baby’s first year are well documented. Breastfed babies are at lower risk for asthma, type 2 diabetes, obesity, gastrointestinal…
Bee Prepared: Meet UVM’s Jacques Bailly, Pronouncer of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
Jacques Bailly knows firsthand the intense pressure facing the 550-plus students who, once a year, stand on stage in front of him as they try…
Raising Emotionally Competent Kids: Vermont Consultant Creates a Toolbox to Support Lifelong Skills
Alyssa Blask Campbell is on a mission to help parents, teachers and caregivers raise emotionally intelligent humans. Emotional intelligence — self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy and social…
Team Effort: A Vermont Agency Brings Intended Parents and Surrogates Together to Create Families
There’s a photograph that Jes Stumpf keeps in an album in her bedroom and thinks of fondly. Taken almost four years ago, it shows Stumpf…
Mom Takes Notes, May 2019
Almost two years after giving birth, many of the changes that becoming a mom brought out in me are wearing off. I no longer wake…
Pedal Party
Cyclists of all ages are invited to bring their wheels to the third annual Human Powered Parade and Festival in Bristol. Inspired by the bike-central…
Learning En Français
The Burlington School District has announced that it will partner with the Embassy of France to explore offering dual-language french immersion programming in Burlington schools….
Kicking It New School
In December 2018, the Renaissance School, a private elementary school in Shelburne, closed with little warning, leaving parents scrambling to find classrooms for their children…
Milestones: A Mother Celebrates Her Young Son’s Development, While Grieving Her Precious Daughter
Since my son, Manny, was born four years ago, I’ve marveled as he’s gracefully sailed through developmental milestones, navigating the world with grace, ease and…
A Helping Hand
My daughter, Mira, turns 12 this month. She rocks lavender Doc Martens and big hoop earrings and is partial to sayings like “Yas kween” and…
Fun for Everyone: Partners in Adventure Helps Young People With Special Needs Experience the Joy of Camp
Thirty-one years ago, Debbie Lamden’s priorities underwent a seismic shift when her son, Ari, was born 16 weeks early, weighing just 1.5 pounds. Lamden, who…
How Can I Best Support a Friend Through a Miscarriage?
In the four years between my older brother’s birth and my own, our mother had two miscarriages. In those four years, she carried, loved and…
Bittersweet: A Novel’s Protagonist Struggles With Gender Identity and Financial Hardship
Jo Knowles credits reading Robert Cormier’s young adult novel The Chocolate War as a teenager with inspiring her to become a children’s novelist. Later, after…
Mothers’ Helpers: Volunteers Lighten the Load During the ‘Fourth Trimester’
“Mothering has been the richest experience of my life,” writes Anne Lamott. Her memoir of solo parenting an infant, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My…
