Living in Tampa Bay, I feel blessed to be surrounded by water. I love that I can raise my kids somewhere where they can swim and enjoy the pool, lake and ocean year-round. As a girl who grew up in the pool with parents who were lifeguards and competitive swimmers, I never had a fear […]
Author Archives: Tricia Sportsman
The Teal Pumpkin Project Halloween is filled with candy, scares, and orange pumpkins. Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE) wants everyone to know about another color for pumpkins, teal! The Teal Pumpkin Project was created to allow all children and young adults to have a safe and happy time trick or treating on Halloween. Food allergies in […]
Anti-Semitism is still alive and occurring frequently. There are people in this country who would like to exterminate all Jews. These people would like to see the Jews murdered in a gas chamber the way their ancestors were. There are awful memes floating the Internet saying just that. Breathe that statement in. Sends chills down […]
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This article is brought to us by our partners at The Children’s Board of Hillsborough County. Written by Kelley Parris, Executive Director, The Children’s Board of Hillsborough County. Before it’s time to teach a child his ABCs, parents, and caregivers need to know the crucially important ABCs of safe sleep. Unsafe sleep practices, including co-sleeping, […]
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This article is brought to us by our partners at The Children’s Board of Hillsborough County. Written By Kelley Parris, Executive Director, The Children’s Board of Hillsborough County Drowning is the top preventable death for children under the age of 5 in the Tampa Bay area. From 2013 to 2018, 63 local children – enough […]
Child abuse prevention is something we all need to be aware of. I know there were some days when I spoke too sharply, when I put him in his car seat too roughly, and when I said what I swore I’d never say. I assume that because I worry about those irregular episodes that I […]
This article is brought to us by our partners at The Children’s Board of Hillsborough County. Written By Kelley Parris, Executive Director, The Children’s Board of Hillsborough County It’s no secret that parenting can be stressful. Situations like a baby who won’t stop crying can be hard to handle, especially if they’ve tried everything to […]
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In this day and age, allowing kids to play outside alone can be scary. This Winter Break was monumental for my little family. I became “comfortable” with my two girls, ages 6 and 8, playing outside without me. Ages six and eight… Old enough to be outside alone? I’ve always wanted them to be more […]
Childhood drowning deaths are up 70% this year, thanks to quarantine and Covid. Florida leads the country in drowning deaths of children aged 1-4. Sadly, children this age are most at risk of drowning in their own home pool. Even more susceptible to drowning are special needs children. Those are terrifying and heart-breaking statistics. Each […]
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Tampa Bay is home to well over 100,000 college students, many of whom live on campus or in nearby student housing. As parents, we like to think the worst thing that could happen to our child is a lousy grade or catching the flu. In Tampa, passing hurricanes might add a few gray hairs. But […]