There’s a growing suspicion that diet plays a key role in magnifying kids’ ADHD symptoms. But is the link for real? Recent news suggests yes—and no. Earlier this year, The Lancet published findings from a Netherlands study showing that a controlled diet can improve behavior. According to the study, 64% of kids with ADHD are […]
Applicants age 6 to 12 are invited to create a 90-second video telling why they should be selected as the MINIMASTER Model Builder. To enter the contest, children must have permission from their parent or guardian to upload their video entry at www.Facebook.com/LDCChicago. The winner will learn LEGO building secrets from a Master Model […]
“I want to teach people about my disease,” Jared Kuper, 10, said to his mom. He was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes only after he went into a diabetic coma. Jared, supported by his mom, has become an advocate for children with diabetes locally and beyond. “It’s not me, it’s my son,” Laura says, […]
Terri Lorenz’s philanthropy has always centered around families and children. In 2005, she and her husband, Tony, noticed that family summer gatherings in Wilmette tended to center on the lakefront, with little going on in their neighborhood farther west. Wanting to provide summer entertainment that families could walk to, they started the annual Thornwood […]
When a child is diagnosed with cancer, the whole family is thrown into crisis, but in the rush to assist the ill child, the well siblings are often ignored. Melanie Goldish realized this in 1998 when her 5-year-old son, Travis was diagnosed with cancer. He has battled cancer twice and is now a healthy […]
My youngest son Luke didn’t get the nickname Tasmanian Devil because he likes to sit still. And while he’s almost completely non-verbal, he is wholly capable of communicating his wants and needs (though sometimes not in ways most people expect). No surprise that we’ve been hesitant to expose him to live theater, imagining our […]
By day, he’s a consultant to Fortune 500 companies dotting the globe and lectures at a major business school. By night, though, Rick Kolsky does a 180-degree pivot and coaches 11- and 12-year-old girls’ basketball at a local gym. Why? “I view coaching as something that is trying to teach kids great life lessons, […]
For many of us, the organic awakening came when we read a book by Michael Pollan or saw the film “Food, Inc.” But Jeanne Pinsof Nolan of Glencoe recognized the importance of organics more than 20 years ago. In the late ’80s, Nolan walked into a health food store out-of-state and happened upon some […]
Going from the big business, adult-only world of being an international tax attorney to crawling around on the floor with a camera making monkey sounds for children is one scenario Julie Floyd never imagined for herself fifteen years ago. Floyd, the photographer who founded and owns Classic Kids Photography, followed her passion when she […]
Amid the multi-million dollar houses that pepper the North Shore, it’s hard to remember that homelessness happens here. But as Laura Sabino, executive director for The Lake County Haven, points out: Lake County has some of the wealthiest communities in the United States right next to some of the poorest. And that’s why a […]
