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By MIRIAM VORAN

The Upper Valley has sports for every taste. Take your pick of indoors or outdoors, individual or team, elite competition or ordinary recreation. Most parents believe that sports help children thrive — and there’s lots of evidence that speaks to those benefits.

By MIRIAM VORAN

Cooler weather is here and winter is on its way. Parents are looking for wholesome indoor activities to keep children busy and support their growing minds. Art projects usually top the list.You imagine your child contentedly coloring, making a picture...

By MIRIAM VORAN

Every fall, parents write out their back-to-school lists: New clothes, new school supplies, new backpack, good sleep hygiene — on and on.You’ll easily find advice for the comprehensive checklist that helps your children start the new school year...

By MIRIAM VORAN

Floodwaters ripped through Vermont and New Hampshire, one year to the day after the 2023 devastation. Surely Nature’s screaming: you’ve blown past environmental limits! That’s the message of Earth Overshoot Day. This year it falls on Aug. 1. That’s...

By MIRIAM VORAN

How are parents to feel about their student’s graduation? Graduations celebrate accomplishments; they are also good-byes with eyes on the prize of what’s ahead. And yet, everywhere around you, parents and young adults are clinging to each other, never...