When facing a challenge, it often helps to get advice from others in the same situation. That’s the theory behind the video, Stuttering: For Kids by Kids, which is now available at most Maui County libraries. The video, produced by the Stuttering Foundation, stars children of all ages who struggle with the verbal challenge. The […]
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2013 MauiTime Summer Camp Guide
Gone are the dog days of summer where our island children run amuck in the hot and dusty streets, walking to the beach with boogie boards or riding their bikes through town. Nowadays, summer means enrichment and extracurricular activities allowing youth to absorb rays of sunshine while sharpening their creative skills. Not surprisingly, many of […]
Maui County Farm Bureau Teaches Kids About Agriculture
Not very many kids these days aspire to be farmers. The job has a bad rap (we’re thinking the hours, the debt, the smell…) but Maui County Farm Bureau (MCBF) has taken up the good fight to bring agriculture education to elementary schools around Maui. Considering that the Farm Bureau says the average age of […]
Crazy Kids And Dogs That Drive And Motor Oil Thieves
CRAZY KIDS An estimated 3.2 million kids aged five to 12 take mixed-martial arts classes, training to administer beatdowns modeled after the adults’ Ultimate Fighting Championships, according to a January report in ESPN magazine, which profiled the swaggering, Mohawked Derek “Crazy” Rayfield, 11, and the meek, doll-clutching fighting machine, Regina “The Black Widow” Awana, seven. […]
Musubi Man and Mark Bennick and Guttermouth and Jo Koy
THURSDAY, FEB. 7 MUSUBI MAN – “Musubi Man” will appear at the Kahului Public Library this Thursday. The Honolulu Theatre for Youth (HTY) will present him as part of a special tour of four Neighbor Island public libraries. This “local version” of the “Gingerbread Man” follows a magical Musubi on the adventure of a lifetime. […]
Watching Keiki Learn About The Arts At Camp Kaluanui
During one recent stop by the Nui No’eau Visual Center campus on a sunny afternoon, I found a group of keiki on the lawn holding brightly colored parachutes in big circles. They were observing how they caught the wind and made shapes with the fabric. It was a giant, colorful living sculpture that giggled its […]
West Maui Skate Park Finally Opens
After 12 years, plenty of blood, lots of sweat (cuz it’s Lahaina) and too many tears, the West Maui Skate Park is now open to the public for skaters (county officials held their grand opening on a recent Wednesday morning–a dubious choice, given the fact that most kids were in school). At the blessing, Mayor […]
Eh Brah! Humps in the Night
These walls are thin. You know it because you hear my children screaming and giggling and banging their toys on the floor all day. We know it because we hear you and your various boyfriends bumping uglies and groaning about it like you’re auditioning for a porno all night, every night. I have no problem […]