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A MAGAZINE SERVING FAMILIES IN BUTTE, GLENN, SHASTA, SISKIYOU & TEHAMA COUNTIES SINCE 1993

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Ways Dance Can Benefit Your Child - kids in jazz - north state parent

8 Ways Dance Can Benefit Your Child

Supporting your child’s commitment to dance can feel overwhelming at times. It’s easy to question our dance mom sanity while late-night chauffeuring to practice and dress rehearsals, or when the […]

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Teens Excel as Aspiring Classical Music Artists

It’s Cooler Than You Think We’ve all heard the too-familiar refrains. “When I was five years old, my parents made me take piano lessons.” “My dad wouldn’t let me play […]

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Gather at the Parades!

Recently I had planned to have a quiet evening at home, but then my son called, asking, “Aren’t you coming to the Monster Truck Parade?” What does a mom say […]

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5 Important Things to Consider Before You Get a Pet

When Erica Galligan’s children were young, her family tried adopting a dog. But allergy issues forced them to return their pet to the breeder. Over time they found other alternatives, […]

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Achieve Charter School: New Beginnings

Up from the Ashes In August 2019, just 10 months after the Camp Fire leveled Paradise, CA, 217 kindergarten-through-8th-grade students streamed onto Achieve Charter School’s newly-constructed campus in Chico, CA. […]

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Shasta Community Maternity Center

A Warm Hug of Services The healthcare team at Shasta Community Maternity Center wants every woman to feel as though she’s wrapped in a warm hug of quality services each […]

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Sharing the Festival of Lights

The holidays can be a time of reverence for many community members. Jennifer Adams of Blue Oak Charter School in Chico, CA, believes that Blue Oak’s annual “Festival of Lights” […]

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5 Acts of Service for Families

Embracing a Spirit of Giving The holidays are a magical time for kids. Between the parties, decorations, treats, and gifts galore, who can’t understand a child feeling excited about this […]

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Role of Grandparents In Modern Families

In our contemporary world filled with technology and fast-moving parts and pieces, it can be easy to assume that modern human beings are rewriting the rules. We perceive fundamental changes […]

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Fostering and Adopting

A Journey of a Lifetime November is National Adoption Awareness Month, intended to raise awareness of those children in foster care needing adoption into permanent homes. At any given time, […]

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Working From Home

How to Manage Your Time When you work in an office, your gabby neighbor, needy family members, and others don’t expect you to be free during the day. Your inner […]

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Firestorm Wildland Fire Suppression, Inc.

Helping Local Youth Find a Purpose Jim Wills is undoubtedly a man with a vision. He is the founder of Chico, CA’s Firestorm Wildland Fire Suppression, Inc., a private fire […]

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