How to be a Great Parent Coach in Hawai‘i
Art, music, math or sports. No matter what your child loves how can you be the best inspiration on the sidelines?
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Hawai‘i Parent Hacks: 22 Cooking Tips and Tricks to Try at Home
Make your life easier with drip-free ice pops, no-mess bacon, perfect-peel eggs and more.
Education Cheat Sheet: Decoding Assessment Jargon
Objectives, goals, formative: what do these words mean when it comes to understanding how your child is learning in school?
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.
Raising Keiki in COVID-19: I Feed My Kids Spinach For Breakfast To Keep Them Healthy in the Pandemic
I teach my kids how to put their health first. Plus, a green smoothie recipe my kids love and a DIY template for face mask holders.
Raising Keiki in COVID-19: My Kids Can’t Hug Me When I Come Home From Work
Photo: Getty Images 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 with HONOLULU Family. I’m a nurse in the emergency room of one of…
Raising Keiki in COVID-19: My Newborn Was in a Hawai‘i Intensive Care Unit
Photo: Courtesy of Cristy Saycon 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 with HONOLULU Family. It’s such a scary time for pregnant mothers.…
Education Cheat Sheet: Advice for Parents of the Quirky Kid
Every child is unique. But when should you let offbeat habits thrive and when should you rein it in.
Let It Go: The Ins and Outs of Selling, Buying and Donating Kids Items in Honolulu
All you need to know about selling or donating your child’s old things. Plus, money-saving shopping ideas.
Education Cheat Sheet: Debunking Learning Differences
Photo: Thinkstock Editor's Note: The Learning Disabilities Association of America lists 11 different disabilities and related disorders that can interfere with learning basic skills. These can be a challenge for kids and adults, but it does not mean students cannot…
Education Cheat Sheet: 3 Ways to Encourage Exceptional
Photo: Getty Images Editor's Note: It's a question the parents in the office often discuss over lunch, after meetings or anytime we have a moment. How can we make sure our kids grow up confident, capable and happy? Sometimes it is…
Hurricane Lane: How Do Hawai‘i Hurricanes Get Their Names?
Photo: NOAAA satellite captured this image of Hurricane Lane as a category 5 storm on Wednesday, Aug. 22. Hurricane Lane organized in the Eastern Pacific, so it received one of the names from the Eastern Pacific list for 2018, which…
Education Cheat Sheet: Helping Your Child with Math
Photo: Courtesy of Island Pacific Academy Editor’s Note: The thing I had feared since Cassera started elementary school happened in second grade. She asked me to check her math homework and as I stared at what appeared to be a…
Education Cheat Sheet: Parenting Help in Minutes
Photo: Thinkstock How much screen time should my child be getting? How do I help my child with homework? How can I help my children be ‘well-rounded’ without over-scheduling them or stressing them out? Busy parents want the answers to…
Education Cheat Sheet: Passion-Based Learning
Photo: Courtesy of Asia Pacific International School Editor’s Note: In the third grade, my friends wanted to be firefighters, police officer, chefs and teachers. I wanted to be in advertising. I have the career day folder to prove it. I…
Education Cheat Sheet: Navigating the Preschool Program Maze
Photo: Courtesy of Honolulu Waldorf School Editor’s Note: My daughter’s first day of preschool was an emotional day for me. I cried watching her walk away, barely pausing to wave at me over her shoulder before she dove into blocks,…
Let It Go: The Ins and Outs of Selling, Buying and Donating Kids Items
Photos: Thinkstock The first time I sold my daughter’s baby clothes to a kids resale shop, I sat in the parking lot afterward and cried—out of regret and sadness. Clearly, my post-partum self wasn’t ready to part with a little…
Education Cheat Sheet: Preparing for College, Beyond the SATs
Photo: Courtesy of Damien Memorial SchoolThis mural on the Damien Memorial School campus is an example of creative, goal-oriented student thinking that is what colleges are looking for in prospective students. Editor’s Note: When I was applying to college, my…
Date Night Idea: 2018 Hale ‘Aina Awards
Photo: HONOLULU Magazine New restaurants, new chefs, and creative dishes and cocktails are always popping up in Honolulu's vibrant dining scene. For parents, our cuisine “scene” often involves mac and cheese, sometimes stuck in our keiki’s hair. When we do score a rare…
Having Trouble Breastfeeding?
The day our children are born is an experience unlike any other. As much as we would like things to go smoothly, it just seems like there is one part of motherhood that is unpredictable, and that is breastfeeding. For…
Hawai‘i Parent Hacks: 13 Tips and Tricks for Your Home
Learn how to stop doors from slamming, detangle doll hair, organize LEGO and slip a duvet cover on in seconds.
‘Tiger Mom’ to kids: hear me roar
Imagine growing up without being allowed ride your bikes around the neighborhood, cheer on your high school football team, go on sleepovers or — heaven forbid — get a B in chemistry.Doesn’t sound like a lot of fun.But according to Amy Chua…
ASK DR. DISH: Bad mommy?
Question: Dear Dr. Dish, I’ve been dating this woman for a year and I really want kids but I don’t know if she’s ready to be a mother. She does want to have kids (we spent four hours talking about…
