Author: NW Kids

Before parenthood, I loved every Halloween except one spent hosting a Jr. High costume party fraught with bad decisions and tween drama.

Here are our Halloween book picks for kids! What are your favorites?   Wickle Woo Has a Halloween Party (Tiny Tab Book) By Nosy Crow (Board Book $7.

by Maya Barbon, age 15   Northwest Children’s Theater’s premiere adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, which opened this weekend to an enthusiastic audience of young detectives-to-be, leads right to 221B… Baker Hall that is.

There is a lot of proof lately showing the benefits of yoga for kids. Some are obvious like learning how to stretch and move.

As a mom and a self-defense teacher, the concept of keeping our kids safe in the online world has always been interesting but somewhat perplexing.

Since 2004 Black Wagon have been purveyors of the coolest in kids fashion, art, toys and games. In 2006 they opened on Mississippi Avenue and have become a neighborhood (and beyond) mainstay for Portland families looking for great stuff for any occasion.

By Maya Barbon The moment I walked into the Portland Center for Performing Arts to see Fancy Nancy, I knew this would be, by far, the fanciest Oregon Children’s Theatre show I’d seen.

It’s always a treat for our family to go to a play at Northwest Children’s Theater and Little Red “Riding Hood” was no exception.