May 2007 FREE Clarksville Family Interview: Serving Clarksville, Montgomery County & the Surrounding Areas Jason Roy of Building 429 Is Your Pre- Schooler Ready for Kindergarten? The Roxy Past, Present and Future Cash In by Cleaning Out Jason and Avery Roy Portrait by David Barbee 2 Clarksville Family Contents 5 • ALL ABOUT MOM CALENDAR • 21 Mother’s Day Edition 8 • INTERVIEW THE FRIDGE • 24 Local Musician Jason Roy of Building 429 12 • ART & CRAFT TEACHER TIME • 26 Make Your Own Family Crest Preparing for Kindergarten 14 • FEATURE TIPS & TIME SAVERS • 27 Worth the Wait, Not the Worry Garage and Yard Sale Advice 17 • ARTS & HERITAGE NETWORK • 28 Roxy: Past, Present and Future 19 • ARTS & HERITAGE CLASSIFIED• 31 DAC: Artist Spotlight New Section Invitation Clarksville Family Magazine is available FREE at the following locations: A Plus Math Tutoring & More GI Specialists of Clarksville Riverview Inn Advantage Learning Center Glenellen Elementary The Red Barn Amici & Co. 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Recreation Center Curves - Sango Once Upon a Child East Montgomery Elementary Prudential Professional Realty - St. B Eden Day Spa Rainbow Kids Clinic Fieldstone Place Rhythm Rags If you would like to have Clarksville First Baptist Church Richview Middle Family Magazine distributed at your First Friends Ringgold Elementary location call (931) 338-2739 or e-mail Gateway Medical Center Riverside Medical Associates [email protected] clarksvillefamily.com 3 Publisher’s Message Well, here we are already at our second issue! We have been excited by the tremendous response to Clarksville Family’s first issue and we hope that we can follow it up with each upcoming issue being as well received. And if this is your first time picking up our publication, welcome! Did you know that May is Better Speech and Hearing Month? I have to admit that I had no idea that it was until last year. Like many people, I was not aware of a lot of the illnesses or rare conditions that exist. That is until you or someone you love (or sometimes even a celebrity) are affected. The same went for me with Better Speech and Hearing Month. My three-year-old son was diagnosed with apraxia of speech last fall. This diagnosis came after many months of speech and occupational therapy. On page 14 of this issue I share our experience with apraxia in the hope that it may help someone else become more aware of all the many speech and hearing disorders that are out there. Last, but certainly not least, May 13th is Mother’s Day and we would like to wish all of the Moms, Grandmas, Step Moms, Foster Moms and anyone who’s even “like a Mother” to you, a truly Happy Mother’s Day. Please know that you are loved and appreciated more than you’ll ever know. Sincerely, Carla Lavergne Publisher Clarksville Family Magazine has 10,000 issues published and distributed monthly Clarksville across Clarksville and the surrounding area. Family Publisher Editor Graphic Design Contributing Writers Carla Lavergne Cliff Lavergne Carla Lavergne Peggy Bonnington, April McDonald, Carla Lavergne, Cliff Lavergne, Wendy Sheffield, Tom Thayer To contact us call: (931) 338-2739 or e-mail [email protected] PO Box 31867 Clarksville, TN 37040 All About Mom Notable Quotes on Mothers... “I know how to do anything - I’m a “When you are a mother, you are “Every mother hopes that her mom.” never really alone in your thoughts. daughter will marry a better man Roseanne Barr A mother always has to think twice, than she did, and is convinced that once for herself and once for her her son will never find a wife as … child.” good as his father did.” “If pregnancy were a book, they Sophia Loren Martin Andersen-Nexö would cut the last two chapters.” Danish social author Nora Ephron … American film director & author “And remember that behind every … successful woman...is a basket of “Children require guidance and … dirty laundry.” sympathy far more than instruction.” “You may have tangible wealth Unknown Annie Sullivan untold: Caskets of jewels and coffers Tutor of Helen Keller of gold. Richer than I you can … never be I had a Mother who read to “If evolution really works, how come … me.” mothers only have two hands?” “Men are what their mothers made Strickland Gillilan Milton Berle them.” American poet & humorist … Ralph Waldo Emerson … “The precursor of the mirror is the … “Children are the living messages mother’s face.” “Anyone who says they ‘Slept like a we send to a time we will not see.” D.W. Winnicott baby’ hasn’t got one.” John W Whitehead Pediatrician A new mother Attorney and civil libertarian … … … “It’s not easy being a mother. If it “Biology is the least of what makes “My mother had a great deal of were easy, fathers would do it.” someone a mother.” trouble with me, but I think she Unknown Oprah enjoyed it.” Mark Twain … … “The best way to keep children home “The doctors told me that I would … is to make the home atmosphere never walk, but my mother told me I “I want my children to have all the pleasant -- and let the air out of the would, so I believed my mother.” things I couldn’t afford. Then I want tires.” Wilma Rudolph to move in with them.” Dorothy Parker Three time Olympic Champion and Phyllis Diller American writer & poet Clarksville native. … … … “The moment a child is born, the “God couldn’t be everywhere, so he “Who in their infinite wisdom mother is also born. She never created mothers.” decreed that Little League uniforms existed before. The woman existed, Proverb be white? Certainly not a mother.” but the mother, never. A mother is Erma Bombeck something absolutely new.” … “Children learn to smile from their Rajneesh … parents.” “You do not really understand Hindi spiritual teacher Shinichi Suzuki something unless you can explain it … Music teacher & enthusiast to your grandmother.” “Children aren’t happy with nothing Albert Einstein to ignore, And that’s what parents … “There is no way to be a perfect were created for.” … mother, and a million ways to be a “When I was a child, my mother Ogden Nash good one” said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, Classic American poet Jill Churchill you’ll be a general. If you become … Modern American author a monk you’ll end up as the pope.’ “The phrase ‘working mother’ is Instead I became a painter and redundant.” wound up as Picasso.” Jane Sellman Pablo Picasso American author clarksvillefamily.com 5 Memories... Images of Mother When my son Bud was about two years old I read how Russian children 4 Years of Age: could fold and put away their clothes without issue at the same age. As My Mommy can do anything! Bud was already dressing himself, 8 Years of Age: I decided to test how much he knew about his clothing process. Placing My Mom knows a lot! A whole lot! his folded clothes in a pile on his bed I said, “Buddy, please put your 12 Years of Age: clothes away,” and waited to see what My Mother doesn’t really know quite everything. happened. 14 Years of Age: “But where do they go Mommy?” he asked inquisitively. “Well, where do Naturally, Mother doesn’t know that, either. you go to get your undershirt when 16 Years of Age: you get dressed each morning?” I replied. “In that drawer,” he said Mother? She’s hopelessly old-fashioned. proudly. 18 Years of Age: “Yes, indeed,” I said. “Well you see, you take the shirt out of the drawer, That old woman? She’s way out of date! wear it, and at the end of the day place 25 Years of Age: it in the hamper. Then Mommy takes the clothes out of the hamper, washes Well, she might know a little bit about it. and dries them, folds and returns them to your drawer.” 40 Years of Age: “Ohhhh,” he said in awe. Before we decide, let’s get Mom’s opinion. “From now on Mommy will place 65 Years of Age: your clothes on your bed and you Wish I could talk it over with Mom. place them neatly in your drawer,” I told him. “Okay, Mommy,” he said with the delight of a challenge. From that day forth he maintained his bureau drawers and I maintained his privacy by not going into them. Submitted by Shirley Berardo, Clarksville, TN Tummy Honey You know you’re a Mom when: Stretch Mark Prevention Butter • You’ve used saliva as a hair styling and cleaning aid.