By Jackie Shelton, Guest Contributor This season is so different from falls of the past: My kids are grown, my boyfriend’s kids are grown, and we find ourselves able to spend some time together on a weekend afternoon enjoying the abundant cultural opportunities that Reno has to offer. Which is …

IEP help for parents at first-ever Wrightslaw Special Education Law and Advocacy Conference to Dec. 5 in Reno RENO, Nev. – How far will a parent go to save a child from being chronically undereducated? Ask any of the parents of the students of Newton Learning Center, a school for …

Full-service hospital coming to Northern Nevada, including a Women’s Health Institute As much as we do not like to admit it, kids get hurt. Whether our kids think they are Superman while biking down the hill going 30 miles an hour and have a nasty fall, or they experience trouble …

On Saturday, the community is invited to come together for a special art project at the Urban Roots Teaching Farm, Painting For Compassion that is spreading positive messages of support and hope to the community while offering information and resources about suicide prevention. This event grew from a child’s question. Caroline …

When I wrote the book “100 Things to Do in Reno Before You Die,” I wrote about “Thing” #77, arte italia, almost entirely from the perspective of their culinary arts programs — a few times a year, the downtown destination invites revered visiting chefs to cook for lucky attendees in …

We’d like to introduce you to a new series of posts here at Reno Moms Blog, called the Northern Nevada School Discovery Zone. This will be an opportunity for us to gather your questions and concerns about local schools and help track down the answers for you.  We’re going to kick …

  If you’re like me, I was raised in the era of stern voices and spanking. Just the threat of the wooden spoon and we snapped into order. But what we know now begs for a different tactic on this discipline style. Spanking and yelling at kids teaches them that …

I have never really considered myself a runner.  I was a Division I soccer player so I’ve done plenty of running, don’t get me wrong, but I never considered myself a runner.  Like, I never went out and ran for fun.  My running was always combined with chasing a ball …

Skin cancer is the #1 diagnosed cancer in the world, and we are all layering ourselves and our children in sunscreen these days trying to prevent them from this same future. And it’s all over the internet-the newest studies are showing the active ingredients in sunscreen are absorbed at high levels! …

Eight years ago, I found out there were people out there who did not live with debt. Not only that, but these were people who actually SAVED money, or saved up for big purchases, and even put away money for retirement. Even more, these were people who were MY age. …