6 Tips for a Winning Cover Kids Entry
Planning to enter your child in the 2022 Cover Kids search? Here are tips for winning entry photos.
5 Cheap & Easy Ways to Liven Up Your Kid’s Next Lunch
With all the time being at home in lockdown, what better way to use your creative side (and save some money) by preparing meals on a dime? Some of these ideas are quite well-known while others are based on personal…
Your Weekend: The Best Family Fun-July 30, 2020
Photo: Courtesy of HTY YouTube pageA trailer for "A Kids Play About Racism" A Kids Play About Racism Watch Party It may be a conversation you’ve had recently or one you’ve been meaning to approach. What is racism and what can your…
We Tried It: Book Takeout at the Hawaiʻi State Public Library
Browsing is a little more difficult but finding the reads you want has never been easier.
Your Weekend: The Best Family Fun-July 23, 2020
The Hawaiʻi Polo Life team and their ponies. Editor's Note: As of Saturday, July 25, the polo matches were canceled ahead of Hurricane Douglas. Contact organizers of these events for the latest. For a list of places closed because of…
Raising Keiki in COVID-19: As Parents With Home-Based Businesses, We Knew How To Work From Home With Kids (Sort Of)
Emotional bank accounts and big balloon breaths, plus other tips from parents who run home-based businesses.
Festival of Hope Brings Much-Needed Support to Families Affected by COVID-19
Child and Family Service (CFS) hosted the Festival of Hope for Families, funded by the First Hawaiian Bank Foundation, on Saturday, May 9th, 2020 from 9 a.m. to noon at the CFS Ewa Beach campus. Participants were able to sign-up…
Your Weekend: The Best Family Fun-July 16, 2020
Photo: Karen DBCoral Crater Adventure Park is one of many places offering big discounts for kama‘āina right now. Go Zip Lining You have a few more weeks to get out of the house and take advantage of some kama‘āina deals.…
Best of HONOLULU Family 2020: SHOP
Our readers’ and editors’ picks for the best places to shop for your family in Honolulu.
Good Reads: 8 Great Books to Add to Your Library in Summer 2020
(Editor's note: As families stay home during the coronavirus pandemic, many apps for reading have made themselves available for free. We recommend Epic! for electronic books and Audible or audio books. You also can find books on the Libby app, using your library card. And if…
Keiki Corner: ‘Ohana Word Search
Getty Images ‘Ohana Word Search In Hawai‘i, we embrace our lives with our extended ‘ohana. This includes not only our actual family, but also our friends, teachers and others who are part of our close-knit communities. Find 20 words relating to…
Your Weekend: The Best Family Events—July 9, 2020
Photo: Lavonne Leong Play at Pearlridge Whether you have a bouncing baby, pint-sized princess or rowdy pre-teen there are several activities for them at Pearlridge Center. Feed and snap selfies with live monarch butterflies at the Sharing the Butterfly Experience in Mauka…
Raising Keiki in COVID-19: Four Generations Live Under One Roof and I Am the Great-Grandmother
Photo: Courtesy of Faye LeeSeven members of this close-knit family live together during the coronavirus pandemic. Raising Keiki in COVID-19 is a series of personal reflections of parents living on Oʻahu during the coronavirus pandemic. Some articles were written by the parent, while others talked story…
Your Weekend: The Best Family Events–July 2, 2020
Photo: Karen DB Photography Summer Reading Program at the Hawaiʻi State Public Library The library's popular program went online before COVID-19, so many families may already be familiar with logging their reading time on the website. You can reserve books…
Party Planning Guide: A Circus-Themed Bash!
Clown around at a DIY celebration full of elephant-sized fun.