RACINE COUNTY — The 12th Family Reunion Music Festival will take place on Saturday, June 24 at the Johnson Park Pavilion, 6200 Northwestern Ave., Racine, Wis. This free-admission music festival is organized to celebrate life, family and friendship, and to support three incredible community organizations. A saxophone performance delights folks at the 11th annual Family […]
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Our passion is providing journalism that serves. We need your help to make our series about lead poisoning happen. If this is the work you think is important, please support us by making a contribution. Denise Lockwood CEO of the Racine County Eye Dear Racine County Eye Reader,I’m writing to you today to ask for […]
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Summit Players Theatre performing Macbeth at Wisconsin State Parks beginning June 9
Wisconsin-based traveling theatre company Summit Players Theatre is returning to live, outdoor performance and will be performing Shakespeare’s Macbeth from June 9 to August 19 in 22 different Wisconsin State Parks. All performances will be free and preceded by a 45-minute educational workshop. The company will offer its workshop and performance at Richard Bong State […]
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Childcare, school immunization requirements for 2023-24 updated by Wisconsin DHS
MADISON — The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) has announced updates to its immunization requirements for children in childcare centers and schools. The new requirements include updated guidelines for meningitis and whooping cough immunizations, and documentation of previous chickenpox infection by a qualified medical professional. There are no changes to the existing exemptions for […]
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Racine Public Health Department Hosts “Vaccinate before you Celebrate” for Kids
The City of Racine Health Department encourages adults to take their children to receive their COVID-19 vaccines before attending holiday events. The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine has recently been approved for children ages 5 to 11 years old. On Wednesday, November 24, there will be a special free vaccination clinic on the Lower Level of City […]
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Dog attack on kids stopped by neighbor who shoots, scares off animal
According to the Racine Police Department two children were attacked and injured by a pit bull Wednesday. According to Sgt. Adam Malacara, RPD officers responded around 9 a.m. to a report of a dog attack and shots being fired in the 700 block of Sydney Drive. According to Malacara, two children were walking to a […]
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The Purposeful Parent: A family plan for digital devices-‘Screen Smarts’
I am a digital immigrant. I do my best to fit in and access the many benefits of the fast paced, ever changing technological world. However, teenagers and tweens find the sound of my digital talk to be hilarious! Evidently I have a crazy accent! I’m not alone. Parents approximately 35 years and older will […]
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The Purposeful Parent: Now I lay me down to sleep…
Now I lay me down to sleep … Many of us are familiar with this opening line to a standard children’s bedtime prayer. It started out so peaceful and usually closed with invocations for blessings for those we love. Comforting and harmless, right? Well, I don’t know about you, but there was a part in […]
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The Purposeful Parent: Modeling Kindness-It’s A Two Way Street
One of the best ways to teach children a fundamental character trait such as kindness is to model it, and today we invite you to consider this process as a “two way street”. Children have magical lessons to teach us. If we can get to a place where we are willing to listen, they can […]
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The Purposeful Parent: Let Whatever You Don’t Want For Your Children Be A Non Issue
This delightful quote comes from best selling author and international speaker Esther Hicks, and it applies to adults as well as children. Let whatever you don’t want in life be a non-issue! How very liberating, right? So very simple and yet so very powerful! When we look at raising our children from this perspective parenting […]
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The Purposeful Parent: Child Expectations
How much should we expect of our children with regard to self-care and contribution to the family as a toddler, as a young child, as a teenager, and as an adult? This is an ongoing dilemma for most all parents beginning as early as post-infancy and continuing on through adulthood. It is the basis for […]
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Purposeful Parent: Psychological Based Myth Busting For Parents #2
Today we present the 2nd myth in the series entitled ‘Psychologically based myth busting for parents!’ Myth #2— Punishment is necessary to make children behave. False. Punishment is quite simply ineffective and counter productive. It can have life-long damaging effects and ironically is often responsible for promoting and creating the very behaviors we hope to avoid […]
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Parenting can be a SPOOKY process
What do you find most SPOOKY about parenting? The Purposeful Parent thought this might be the perfect season to find out what parents feel is most spooky about raising children. Now, we’re not talking literally, as in really creeped out … or maybe we are! Sometimes it may feel like we are indeed living with […]