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Being Savvy: Activities, things to do with your preschoolers, toddlers and kids in Washington DC, DC

Are You Ready for Some Football?

Oct
20
2008

There are still a few weeks left to catch a local high school football game, and I highly recommend that you pack up the kids and do it. And I don't even like football, but I love taking my daughter to the games at our neighborhood school. Part of the fun for me is watching the high school kids who look like children to me but clearly think they are very mature and cool and remembering when I ... Read more >

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Classes for Christmas

Dec
16
2008

Shopping for the kid who has everything? Consider gifting them with an enrichment activity instead of a toy. Here are a few of the classes and activities I've done with my kids and really enjoyed. Little Gym: They offer Mommy and Me classes up to age 3 with dance and gymnastics classes continuing through grade school. This is my favorite of the gym-type classes since their facilities ... Read more >

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Musical Holiday Traditions

Dec
19
2008

We are a musical family. My husband is happiest with a guitar in his hands and I tend to sing all day long without even noticing that I am doing it. The children seem to be taking after us. They both love their father's guitars and the piano, my three year old daughter sings and dances from the moment she wakes up in the morning until she falls asleep at night, and even the baby is starting ... Read more >

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Leticia

Leticia never had any inkling that she would end up in the DC Metro Area but now finds herself loving everything about living here except Beltway traffic. Born and raised in Northern California's Silicon Valley, this Bay Area native spent 6 years as a New Englander and then moved to the DC Metro Area to be closer to her now-husband and teach for a local school system. By day, Leticia spends...Read more >

Beth Hoffman

Beth is a former corporate flunky turned corporate drop-out and now spends most of her time chasing her two kids; princess-obsessed brand-new preschooler, Mia, and food-obsessed chubbiest baby you've ever seen, Owen. She's a 30-year resident of Northern Virginia and enjoys dragging her kids to all the same places her parents used to drag her....Read more >

Travel Tricks of the Trade

Jun
19
2013

School's out, and the beach beckons! Or Grandma's house, or the lake you daydream about during chilly winter afternoons, or wherever it is your favorite mode of transportation might take you. Walk, ride, fly, float.  Do whatever you need to do to plot a getaway!  And whether ...Read more >

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