Child Center Plans Fund-Raiser

Mon., Sept. 11, 2000

By Kandis Carper kandisc@spokesman.com

Sharon Daloz Parks, author and educator, will be the guest speaker at Liberty Park Child Development Center’s upcoming “Lunch in the Garden.” It will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at 1111 W. 16th.

Daloz Parks’ topic will be “A View from the Perch on the Staircase: Becoming a Citizen in Today’s World.” Music will be provided by Clarincella.

The $45 donation will help provide scholarships for children at the center. The center supports families in need by providing a loving, safe place and a quality learning environment for young children.

Raffle tickets will be sold for $1 to win garden items and pictures by local artists.

For more information and to register, call the Liberty Park Child Development Center at 534-0957.

At 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Daloz Parks will sign copies of her new book “Big Questions, Worthy Dreams: Mentoring Young Adults in their Search for Meaning, Purpose and Faith” at Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main. For more information, call Auntie’s at 838-0206.

* School uniforms go public: After shopping for back-to-school clothes with my two teenagers, I’ve decided that school uniforms are not a bad idea. The expense of having the “right” clothes can be overwhelming.

While uniforms are common in private and parochial schools, more and more public schools are following suit. The National Association of Elementary School Principals and Lands’ End recently conducted a study that shows more than one in five public schools have a uniform policy in place or are considering a move to uniforms.

According to the principals surveyed, a school uniform policy has a positive effect on the following areas of student life: image in the community (84 percent), classroom discipline (79 percent), peer pressure (76 percent), school spirit (72 percent), concentration on school work (67 percent), and student safety (62 percent).

* Lighten the load: Make sure your child isn’t overburdened. Students often carry 30 percent of their body weight in their book bags or backpacks; a safe load is 10 percent, according to Lancet and American Chiropractic Association recommendations reported in Natural Health magazine.

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