We asked and you delivered! We received some amazing submissions from some talented kids. Thank you to everyone who sent us your work! I Love You More Than, by Zachary Tschosik, 9 A World Worth Living In, by Makenna Cavanagh, 15 Broken Ones, by Abigail Blesi, 17 He, by Makenna Cavanagh, 15 […]
By ND Tourism In North Dakota, school children take North Dakota studies as part of the fourth- and eighth-grade curriculum. But why limit their learning to the traditional classroom? An automobile can serve as a mobile classroom, where children and adults can have fun and learn a little bit more […]
By Jody Kerzman | Photography: Photos by Jacy The story that is the past three years of Kara Ohlsen’s life can best be told in numbers: 1,180 chemo treatments. 275 days of school missed. 55 trips to Fargo. And the numbers that started it all: 2-25-2014. That’s the day […]
By Marci Narum | Submitted Photos “No one is perfect. That’s why pencils have erasers.” —unknown Making mistakes is part of life, but they can still be painful. If you’re a mom watching your own child struggle in school, the pain is double—you feel yours and his. That was true […]
Article and Photos by Michelle Farnsworth Now that my firstborn is 20 years old and living on his own, I find myself looking at baby clothing. Wishful thinking? Maybe. But more than anything, I am truly in awe of all the options available for babies and toddlers. And shopping has […]
By Patrick Atkinson | Submitted Photo On the seventh day, when God finished creating the earth and decided it was time to rest, we mere mortals were left to our own devices. One result is that we created babies. After that we became parents. We fed our children and watched as […]
Submitted Photos Tell us a little about the history of the Bismarck Doula Community (BDC). In January 2014, Amy Gilliland Ph.D., CD (DONA), taught a three-day doula training in Bismarck, where there had previously been very few doulas. From that class, a group of six newly-trained doulas decided to collaborate […]
By Stephanie Fong | Submitted Photos On any given Wednesday or Friday, guests to the West River Community Center (WRCC) in Dickinson can peer through the windows of the Mac Gym and see a throng of preschoolers leaping, running, hopping, or singing enthusiastically. For children ages three to five, […]
Covert. Oxymoron. Inundated. Steadfast. Tenacious. Those are just a few of the 200 words included in Kristi Frahm’s new vocabulary curriculum for teaching high school vocabulary. The vocabulary curriculum is called “The Power of 200.” It’s something Kristi has been working on since 1997. “I wanted to figure out a […]
“Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” —Psalm 82:3-4 That’s a verse that has guided Vonda Dahl’s life since she was a teen. It eventually led her to […]
