June/July 2021 Digital Issue
Get ready for the sunny season! The summer promises to be much more fun than last summer, and we’ll tell you exactly where your family can go to play.
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Prioritizing Childhood Immunizations During COVID-19
In the midst of a pandemic, pediatric vaccination clinics work to help keep kids healthy and safe.
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Field Trip: PSU Farmers Market
It’s farmers market season! Learn about what to expect at the beloved PSU Farmers Market.
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Featured Camp of the Week: Lovegood Performing Arts Company
Lovegood camps and workshops are taught by experienced instructors with years of dance, voice, technical theater and acting instructing experience.
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Kids Can Cook: Measuring Skills & Lemon-blueberry Snack Cake Recipe
Help your kids master the skill of measuring by whipping up a delicious lemon-blueberry snack cake.
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Featured Camp of the Week: Try Everything Music Camp
In these camps, kids learn the basics of over 100 instruments from around the world.
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Our Favorite Family Hikes
PDX Parent staffers share their families’ favorite hikes and nature walks.
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GIVEAWAY: Dozer Day Family Pass
This year the drive-thru event will welcome you and your family with a memorable trip driving through a real construction site.
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Featured Camp of the Week: Saturday Academy
From our friends at Saturday Academy Hop on the Science-Tech-Engineering-Arts-Math train with Saturday Academy! Spend a week traveling the many paths of STEAM. Channel your inner chemist to make polymers and non-newtonian fluids. Discover programming logic. Crack secret codes. Show your engineering thinking through design challenges. Experience how art and math are truly connected! These
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Featured Camp of the Week: 360 Arts Camp
Since 1993, Cognizart by MetroArts Inc. Kids camp has given kids ages 6 to 12 a chance to be immersed in visual arts, music, theater and dance.
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Kid-friendly Farmers Markets
After you’ve checked out the PSU Farmers Market, look into these other smaller neighborhood farmers markets that are also very family-friendly. Hillsdale Farmers Market Sundays, April to November: 9 am-1 pm. SW Capitol Hwy. and Sunset Blvd. Hollywood Farmers Market Saturdays year-round. April to September: every week, 8 am-1pm. December to March: first and third
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GIVEAWAY: Lovegood Performing Arts Company Camp or Class
Lovegood Performing Arts Company is giving away tuition for one student to participate in one of our 2021 summer kids camps, workshops, or intensives.
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A Guide to Nature Education
Thanks to Hoyt Arboretum Friends for these great tips to explore nature with kids, including ongoing fun and educational activities at Hoyt Arboretum!
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Featured Camp of the Week: Youth Music Project Rock & Pop Summer Camps
Rock out like your favorite musician at Youth Music Project’s music-intensive summer camp!
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Featured Camp of the Week: OMSI Camps & Classes
Know anyone who’s eager to get their kids out of the house and off screens this summer? OMSI can help with that!
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How Should We Tell the Kids?
From our friends at Gevurtz Menashe A Parent’s Guide for Helping Kids Navigate the Stress of Divorce One of the most difficult challenges for parents at the time of separation or divorce is deciding how to divide responsibility for and time with their kids. For nearly all children, the separation of their parents can be
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Musical Homes, Musical Families
Music Together® of Portland invites you to make your home a more musical place this spring!
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Featured Camp of the Week: Willowbrook Arts Camp
Send your kids outside to explore through art and nature in Brown’s Ferry Park.
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Caterpillar Collage Project
Let the kids get creative with this fun and easy collage project.
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The Shoes Portland Parents Are Talking About
From our friends at Ozznek Shoes Children outgrow their shoes before they’ve barely worn them and buying multiple pairs of shoes for kids can be expensive. That is why Ozznek Shoes were invented — they are an interchangeable children’s footwear brand. It’s the only shoe brand that provides parents with two pairs of shoes per
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Kids Can Cook: Cracking Eggs & Mini-Frittata Recipe
The staff at Basics Market gives tips for teaching kids how to crack and whisk eggs for cute and tasty mini-frittatas.
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It’s Never Too Late to Build Resilience in Kids
We’ve sure heard the word “resilient” a lot this year. Find out what it means and how to help your kids generate or build on this crucial trait.
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Ask Dr. Doug: Arsenic in Baby Foods
Q: I’ve heard a lot in the news recently about arsenic and other heavy metals in baby foods — do I need to be worried about this? A: In February, a congressional committee asked for internal testing documents on heavy metals in commercial baby foods. Of the companies that responded (Happy Baby Organics, Beech-Nut, Earth’s
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Featured Camp of the Week: Cedarwood Summer Camp
Bring some Cedarwood magic into your family’s summer!
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April 2021 Digital Issue
Our annual Summer Camps Guide is here to help you get your kid’s summer camp schedule mapped out.
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Finding Child Care during a Shortage
Steps to consider when looking for child care when there’s high demand and limited supply.
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Five Simple Refresh Ideas for Your Home
Refresh your home without it costing too much money or taking a lot of time with these five easy tips.
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Featured Camp of the Week: Catlin Gabel Summer Camps
On Campus and Online Camps from Catlin Gabel for Every Interest and Every Age
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