Education

Welcome to Iowa City Moms' Blog's guide to summer camps in the Iowa City area! When school is out for the summer, parents need a safe place for their kids to learn, explore, make memories, and try new things. Of...

It’s graduation time and many of us will be celebrating the hard work of those that are closest to us. Perhaps you have a senior in high school graduating at the end of this month or a preschooler who...

Nothing says summertime like freshly-picked fruits and vegetables.  We all know that tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and all manner of other produce tastes best when they are in season and picked as close as possible to when they are eaten. ...

When my son was born, one of the things that I was sure about was that I wanted to breastfeed. I wasn't sure how long, and I wasn't sure how the relationship would look, but I knew it was...

My first experience having a mammogram was at the age of 29. I  found a lump during one of my routine self examinations. Luckily it turned out to be fatty tissue and I didn’t need to follow up with any...

My office has a running joke that we could operate a full daycare center. At current count, we collectively have nearly 20 children–the majority of whom are five and under. We may not see them at staff meetings or...

What a week this was. It started with the viral hashtag #metoo on Monday. According to cnn.com, it started by Alyssa Milano tweeting: "Suggested by a friend: If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote, "Me too"...

Ok, a bit of click bait. Seriously though, you can! You can do it on your lunch break at work, or waiting to pick up your kid from school. While you wait at the doctor’s office, or sitting on...

A few weeks back, I wrote my first post in what I am considering to be a brief, hopefully helpful "series" of child speech and language development. For more information on what you should see in your two-year-old, please...

Today 95% of Americans own a cell phone. That number was 60% 15 years ago (the first iPhone was released in 2007) and only 30% 20 years ago.  This is just one example of the pace at which technology...