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[ FREE ] Afterschool Adventures | Eat, Play, POA | Outside at PCM AUGUST 2014 Back to But there’s still time! Our late summer PDX picks start School on pg. 42. (Yes, already...) metro-parent.com | August 2014 3 [ Contents ] FEATURES Adventures in Afterschooling...............................................................................14 It’s 3 pm. School’s out, but you’re still at work. Now what? By Cathie Ericson. Deciphering Individual Education Plans .....................................................22 We go behind the scenes to help you navigate the IEP process, start to finish. By Helyn Trickey Bradley. 14 DEPARTMENTS Editor’s Note ......................................................................................................................... 6 Play Room ..............................................................................................................................10 Oregon baby names, by the numbers, plus MP’s favorite apps for long summer car rides. Field Trip ................................................................................................................................ 30 Digging the new outdoors exhibit at the Portland Children’s Museum. 30 Family Supper ....................................................................................................................32 Healthy, fresh food and a playroom to boot at Poa Cafe in NoPo. Recipe File ........................................................................................................................... 34 Did someone say kale smoothie? Janice Grube turns on the Vitamix. First Person: Daddy Issues.................................................................................... 36 Our new columnist, Ryan White, works out his drive-thru dilemmas. Pay Attention ................................................................................................................. 38 34 Campaign season is just around the corner. Family Forward Oregon’s Lisa Frack highlights issues to watch. Angels Among Us .......................................................................................................... 40 Schoolyard Farms brings vegetables to the cafeteria. Time Out .................................................................................................................................42 PDX’s best family-friendly August activities, from bike rides to camp outs. RESOURCES Back-to-School ............................................................................................................15 - 29 Parties .......................................................................................................................................47 On Our Cover: Back-to- school glee captured by local photographer Rachael May. See more of her work at rachaelmayphotography.com. metro-parent.com | August 2014 5 [ Editor’s Note ] If you’re a parent, you’ve heard the term “fourth trimester.” It’s those first few months after the baby’s been born, when you’re finding your sea legs together, so to speak, and learning all about your new normal. Some moments are just the way you imagined they would be, but most of the time you’re thinking to yourself, “what have I gotten us all into?” If you’re like me, you’re unsure whether the nurses ever should have let you leave the hospital in the first place — whose idea was it to put you in charge? That’s pretty much the way I’m feeling about my new job as the editor of Metro Parent — not quite sure of what I’m doing, but hopeful that alongside my tribe, I’ll figure out it. Only in this case, the tribe is you — all of the kids and their grown-ups who keep Portland weird and make it such a great place to raise a family. I’ve got lots of plans for the magazine in the coming year. The goal is to become even more local, more relevant and more fun to read. By the end of the summer, we should have our new website up and running, and I’m hoping to hear plenty from our readers on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram — find, friend and follow at @Metro_Parent or www.facebook. com/MetroParentPortland. In the magazine, look for some new features in this month’s issue, including a focus on family-friendly restaurants and dining in Portland’s ever-expanding food scene, and a new look for what’s called the “front-of- book” — those first few pages you leaf through. In the coming months, we’ll roll out more stories about the way we — and our kids — live now, from lifestyle to neighborhoods to technology. So here’s to the fourth trimester, and beyond, to keeping it weird and finding those sea legs. I’m so glad you’re all along for the ride. — Julia Silverman [ Contributing Writers ] Michael Barton (Field Trip) spends a Cathie Ericson (Adventures in great deal of time exploring Portland’s Afterschooling) Cathie Ericson is a natural areas and blogging about Portland-based mom of three who connecting children to nature (at contributes freelance pieces to a exploreportlandnature.wordpress.com). wide variety of parenting, business He lives in SW Portland with his son, and fitness publications for print Patrick, daughter, Afton, and wife, and online. When she’s not at her Catherine, a librarian for Multnomah computer, she’s out chauffeuring kids County Library. He owns more books or doing laundry, and keeps sane with than he’ll ever be able to read. exercise and reading. Follow her @ Cathie Ericson for her thoughts on the Helyn Trickey Bradley (Deciphering writing biz, parenting, fitness, and yes, Individual Education Plans) is sometimes laundry. passionate about proper semicolon use, re-homing stray animals and Ryan White (Unhappy Meals) is the potato chips, preferably with extra salt. author of “Springsteen: Album by When she isn’t writing on deadline, Album,” which comes out in October. she’s trying to find her zen among the He won’t mind if you go and preorder chaos of three children, one dog, one it right now. He lives in North cat and a patient husband. Also, she’s Portland with his wife and their trying to hold the perfect triangle pose 4-year-old daughter. for more than two seconds. She lives in Portland with her family. 6 August 2014 | metro-parent.com [ In The Cloud ] Serving the Families of the Portland Metropolitan Area Metro Parent P.O. Box 13660 Looking to get out of the house with your kids? We’ve got you covered with the metro area’s biggest and most Portland, OR 97213-0660 Phone: 503-460-2774; Fax: 503-331-3445 comprehensive daily events calendar, an online exclusive. From sing-a-longs to library storytimes to free days at the museum, it’s all there on our sister site, www.pdxkidscalendar.com. Publisher Keith Goben, 503-460-2774 PDXKidscalendar.com is also the place to look for great giveaways, plus the next round of voting for local family [email protected] favorites. Next up are schools and birthday party venues, so show your favorites some love. Editor Metro Parent’s website is in the midst of upgrades, but it’s still the place to look for online exclusives. 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