January 2025 Issue
Student Spotlight – January 2025
Every month we compile a list of students doing great things across our community. We have so many talented students in our area. Auburn-Opelika Parents joins with their families and [...]
Mom to Mom with Megan Smalley
Owning your own business is such a gift. What made you decide to open Scarlet & Gold Boutique? Megan: I wanted a creative outlet. I was in full-time pharmaceutical sales […]
From the Publisher – January ’25
Another new year has arrived, bringing 365 days and a clean slate. It’s how we will fill those days, and the plans we are to make that will determine if […]
Dinner’s Ready: Tracy Harris’ Weeknight Pork Chops and Rice
A home full of young adults is known to warm a parent’s heart, and the Harris-Young family just so happens to have two homes to fill with love. “We have […]
Teaching Self-Compassion to Battle Shame
Dr. Brené Brown, who researches emotions, defines shame as the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and, therefore, unworthy of love, belonging, and connection. Simply […]
The Unexpected Is Always Lurking
When I leave my job in two or three years, I’ll still have a good income of around $80,000 thanks to my pension. I talked with my wife recently about […]
Top 5 Tech Rules for Kids in the New Year
As we enter a new year, tech will continue to shape how our children interact with the world. With new devices and social media platforms emerging daily, and if your […]
Ditching the New Year’s Resolutions: Five Things to Try Instead
Every year, as the New Year rings in, thousands of people around the world make “new year, new me” pledges – only to find themselves discouraged and disappointed a few […]
Put the “Om” in Homework: Tips to Ease Homework Frustration & Boost Focus
By the time Meira Mednick’s daughter was in third grade, homework time had morphed into lengthy, embattled evenings fraught with angry tears as frustrated daughter and frazzled mom squared off. […]
Prepare Your Kids for College: 10 Things to Do Now So They Are Ready
My son looked at me with dread in his eyes. He needed to find out about driver’s education classes, and there was minimal information on the website. I smiled and […]