Being Savvy: Your guide to activities and fun things to do with your preschoolers and kids in Pasadena, CA

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...looking in the mirror: best places for children to see their reflections

January 13, 2009

Culture is an important mirror in which we see ourselves reflected. Case in point: as a kid growing up, I was one of few Asian Americans in my school. At home, if we saw Sulu on Star Trek, we'd run screaming to the tv and call everyone around, the sight was so unusual. Things have gotten better in movies and on tv, but even so, those images don't tell a complete story. With that in mind, I've  Read more...

... books essential to kids where you live

November 25, 2008

Here in Pasadena and thereabouts, we're known world-wide for a few key things: beautifully-preserved Arts and Crafts- or craftsman-style houses the Rose Bowl, complete with roses, and floats, sometimes both together in a huge new year's parade world-famous Huntington Gardens, with all kinds of foliage real-live rocket scientists at nearby JPL (the Jet Propulsion Laboratories) the Norton Simon  Read more...

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