Child Development

"You're a big boy now. Big boys don't cry." Someone spoke these words to my son, on his fifth birthday. In the car the following day, another person said the same thing. I didn't know how to react the first...

Ok, so there’s a swim school here…what does that even mean? Ever talked a friend in a big city who says, “We have been taking lessons at a swim school since little Sammy was just six-month-old,” and you think to...

Daycare is a kid-bite-kid world; all daycare parents know it. Sometimes your kid is the biter; other times, the bitten. My first experience with this side of daycare was when my daughter came home with a nasty bite mark...

The Town of Farragut will host the 28th Annual Independence Day Parade on Saturday, July 4 beginning at 9:30 a.m. The parade will begin on Kingston Pike at Lendon Welch Way (Farragut High School entrance) and continue to Boring Road, just east of...

Hello to all you fabulous Mamas, Dads and everyone in between! I have found such a fun, yet simple "Do It Yourself" craft for you to make with your kiddos. These, my friends, are called Seed Bombs. Have you...

Farragut’s annual opportunity for kids to get up close and personal with big equipment used by the Town of Farragut and Knox County safety officials has a new location this year. Due to construction at Mayor Bob Leonard Park,...

It's fall break season in East Tennessee! While people from all over the world are traveling here to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park -- the nation's most-visited national park, incaseyadidn'tknow -- many of us are making travel plans...