That's a question my wife and I have had recently. We have an 11 year old and sometimes there's a situation where it would just be more convenient to let him stay home alone.
About 20 children in the foster care system attended a pizza party yesterday sponsored by Buck and Johnny's Pizzeria in Breaux Bridge. The kids were asked to use art and poetry to express what being adopted would mean to them. Lavontray, an 8th grader who's been in the system for 5 years now, put his feelings into song and I'm now a teary mess.
By law, registered sex offenders are prohibited from participating in handing out candy to kids on Halloween. I don't know about you, but I'd rather not count on anyone playing by the rules. I want to know definitively what areas to avoid with my kids.
Today, a friend and I were joking around making Cajun versions of classic fairy tales like "Jack And The Beanstalk", "Goldilocks And The Three Bears" and more. After I got home from work, I decided to get on the Google to see if anyone else had the same ideas we did. As I found out, there are indeed quite a few Cajun adaptations of classic children's fairy tales, and they look fantastic.
This is big news if you love good family fun. There is a new entertainment venue being built in Henderson called Cajun Fast Track and it'll be opening later this year.
Chris Reed's son found a pretty innovative way to hatch eggs while playing PokemonGo. This past weekend when I walked into Mason's room, a cell phone was attached the ceiling fan---while the fan was ON!!
Zhorie'l Tapo, a first-grader at Plantation Elementary in Lafayette, is one of the grand prize winners for The Leader in Me Student Speech Contest. She, along with students in other age brackets, won a $500 Leadership Grant. Nearly 250 students participated in the nationwide contest.
Some kids in San Antonio were using the back of a pickup truck for a kiddie pool. They had a big blue tarp, and filled it with water. Someone shared a photo in social media, and a lot of meanness ensued. People made fun of them for being poor. Todd Arredondo decided to do a really cool thing..
This App allows you, the parent, to see every electronic device that is logged into your network. It also allows you to set parameters for time spent online.
From all of us at Townsquare Media, please know how appreciative we are of your Herculean efforts to fix this easily solved need this Christmas. You have definitively set in motion a chain of events for these kids that all of us in Acadiana will benefit from as these children grow up in our community.
When you see the amount of money that tobacco companies spend promoting their product versus the amount of money our state spends in education, it's a wonder we aren't all riding Joe Camel to work like the Marlboro Man.