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FEATURES
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WHAT'S NEW
12 Down on the farm
Local farms offer great fun this fall
18 Common Core or Common Crap?
What every parent needs to know about changes in the classroom
22 Making Math Fun for All Kids
A new museum makes the complex simple
BY MERLYN AKHTAR
24 Don't make me ride the bus!
5 steps to help your child handle school bus bullies
BY: MARCIA SZYMANSKI
30 Grandma shows her grandkids a thing or two
Sept. 8th is National Grandparents Day
32
COLUMNS
6 Editor's Journal: Pick your own fruit in the Hudson Valley
BY BRITTANY L. MORGAN
8 Child Behavior: Running scared of the new technology.
BY DR. PAUL SCHWARTZ
9 Family Life: Changes at your child's school
10 What's New: Win these goodies at contests.hvparent.com
32 Calendar: Family fun throughout September
37 Marketplace: Organizations to enrich your family's life
38 Restaurant Review: Stomping Grapes
ON OUR COVER
This month's cover kid is Adrianna, (4), from Goshen. She loves to dance and sing.
A special thanks to the Mid-Hudson Childrens Museum in Poughkeepsie for letting us
shoot at their wonderful location. Visit them at www.mhcm.org.
photo by Kit DeFever; KitDeFever.com
Hudson Valley Parent
September 2013
Expand your child's horizons
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Daddy, can I play with knives?
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Get in "A" in Homework Helping
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BY PAM MOLNAR
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HVP'S SOCIAL STATUS
We recently asked our facebook
friends to share their favorite
vegetarian meals! Here's what they
had to say:
"I make an amazingly delicious
gluten free veggie pasta salad,"
says Michele Kogan. "It's great for
lunch and dinner and is always a
hit at barbeques. All you have to
do is toss tri-color pasta, bite size
pieces of your favorite veggies and
Italian dressing."
"I love vegetarian French onion
soup... ooh la la," says Thomas J.
Rogers.
"Zucchini stuffed with tomatoes
and mozzarella… it's so yummy,"
says MariBeth Martinez."I love
gazpacho," says Bonnie Boyce.
"Making it is very time consuming,
so I buy it at Stew's."
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