Austin Family Magazine - Smart Parenting

Teaming Up To Provide Meals

No Kid Hungry Texas and Boys & Girls Clubs of the Austin Area unveiled a new refrigerated box truck that will help provide nutritious meals for families. The truck, made possible by a grant from No Kid Hungry, will help provide after-school suppers and snacks for...

Austin Completely Booked

Join us for Austin Completely Booked, your summer learning experience! The Austin Public Library wants you to read, explore, and create with us this summer! Reading and learning are important all year, but in the summer it is especially important to be an active...

Mindcraft Build Challenge

Minecraft Education, working with C40 (a global network of mayors taking action to confront the climate crisis), invited three cities from around the world to participate in a Minecraft Build Challenge. Austin was one of the three chosen. The challenge will provide...

New Aquatics Center Opens

Eanes ISD has opened a new Aquatics Center adjacent to the Westlake Athletic Community Center (WACC). The facility was built with funds from the district’s 2019 bond program, finalizing a decades-long push for a school district pool. The pool will be used by the...

Rocketry Teams Advance to Nationals

Two student teams from the Harmony School of Endeavor are among 100 national finalists in the American Rocketry Challenge. The students will compete for $100,000 in prizes at the National Finals on May 14 near Washington, D.C. The top team will win an all-expense paid...

Sustainable Food Cafeteria

Round Rock Independent School District is piloting a composting program at three schools where nearly every lunch item, from the flatware to the trays, are composted or recycled. Sklyer Amdur, Chef Manager at Round Rock ISD, says, “Everything students pick up will be...

Disney’s The Lion King

Texas Performing Arts presents Broadway In Austin Disney’s THE LION KING, the world’s #1 musical on April 7-24, 2022, Tue – Fri 8 pm | Sat at 2 & 8 pm | Sun at 1 & 6:30 pm at Bass Concert Hall | 2350 Robert Dedman Drive | Austin, TX 78712 After 24 landmark...

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How To Extend Kindness to a Friend Dealing With Infertility

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Given the fact that one in eight couples experiences infertility, if you haven’t been on the receiving end of insensitive comments, you’ve struggled to find the right words to say to a friend who has been trying to conceive for months or even years. There are,...

13 Ways Kids Can Cash In

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Teaching kids the value and rewards of hard work and earning their own money is an integral part of helping them develop into responsible adults. Through this, they gain self-esteem, learn the real value of a dollar, and develop better saving and spending habits. So,...

Four Fun Ways To Act on Climate Change

Mar 31, 2022 | 0 Comments

This Earth Month, plant the seeds for family climate action all year long. Three years ago I started a meetup for Austin parents around climate change. I was worried for my kid’s future – for all kids’ futures – and felt tired of watching helplessly from the...