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HOW TO ADVOCATE FOR OUR KIDS’ WELFARE THE MAGAZINE PARENTS LIVE BY IN DENTON COUNTY march 2017 MEET OUR MOM NEXT DOOR 82THINGS TO DO IN THE BACHELOR’S MARCH CATHERINE LOWE HELP YOUR LITTLE NIGHT OWL GETS SOME ZZZS STATE special *sponsored of CARE? section: finding your Four areas where Texas falls short of caring for our children family home pages / MARCH 2017 THE STATE OF DEPARTMENTS OUR NOTED 5 Nocturnal by Nature CHILDREN How to help your little night owl rest ISSUE REAL MOMS 7 Mom Next Door / Catherine Giudici Lowe The Bachelor alumna started a business and had a baby in the last year 8 Fried and True Clever cocktails and a little bit of chicken fried 8 Journal Junkie Craft workshops for creative moms 8 Honey-Do, Honey-Done Complete your honey-do list with help from your neighbors 10 Routines / Angel Koenig One day with a meditative mom and her toddler KID CULTURE 35 Agenda Our five favorite things to do this month Special education, mental health, child welfare and education are all areas in 36 EveryDay desperate need of change, and you can help, p. 13 Calendar of events for every day in March FEATURE ON THE COVER SPECIAL REPORT: 4-year-old Ava 13 STATE OF OUR CHILDREN of Coppell The future doesn’t look super Photography: bright for many of texas’ children, Nick Prendergast but you — yes, you! — can make Hair/Makeup: a difference. 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NorthTexasChild is distributed free of charge, one copy per reader. Only NorthTexasChild authorized distributors may deliver or pick up the magazines. Additional or back copies of NorthTexasChild are available for $2 per copy at the offices of Lauren ILLUSTRATION JOHN J. CUSTER J. JOHN ILLUSTRATION Publications, Inc. We reserve the right to edit, reject or comment editorially on all material contributed. We cannot be responsible for the return of any unsolicited material. NorthTexasChild is ©2017 by Lauren Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part without express written permission prohibited. northtexaschild / march 2017 3 noted. It’s not necessarily unalterably set for life. The circadian clock can be manipulated with light. Experts recommend remov- ing electronics at least two hours before bedtime. The blue light interferes with the ability to fall asleep quickly because it suppress- es the secretion of melatonin. And darken the room as much as possible for bedtime. Roane advocates using sunlight — or artificial light that mimics sunlight — to encourage wakefulness. “Open the curtains when you wake the kids,” she says. Schedules are also important. “Problems arise for adults, adoles- cents and children if that internal clock changes a lot, Roane explains. “The other clocks in your body can’t keep up because they take about 2–3 days to sync to your mas- ter clock. So if you are constantly changing your master clock, those part. The underlying biology can cells are never going to be able to nocturnal be traced in the timing of surges in regulate themselves because they melatonin, the hormone that helps are constantly being told something us sleep. new.” In other words, don’t let by nature But a child’s parental exhaustion emotional and allow the kids to win behavioral well-being sleeptime skirmishes. staying up late may be THE is more impacted If your child is in your kid’s genes LATE LATE if the child has the WOES struggling to stay evening chronotype awake during the WORDS LADAWN FLETCHER If your child’s late-night because in these kids, charades are affecting day or is struggling there is a mismatch him academically, academically because between the timing emotionally or behaviorally, of sleepiness, seek of their clock and the reach out to one of these out a pediatric sleep t’s 10pm in the Fulbrights’ and varied, controlling the circa- demands that kids pediatric sleep centers. expert who may Tarrant County home. Will, dian rhythms, the 24-hour cycles face for learning. Baylor Sleep Center be able to help you 11, and Betsy, 5, have been of sleeping and waking, eating and “I sometimes see Irving, 800/422-9567; map out your child’s baylorhealth.com in bed since 8:30pm. Will’s activity and so much more. poor school perfor- most effective, most I sound asleep, but Betsy’s “This master clock sits in your mance or academic Children’s Health alert times for doing Specialty Centers wide awake, playing in her bed and brain and helps to regulate all the difficulties with Dallas, 214/456-2793 homework, concen- talking to her dolls. other clocks in the cells of your possible or probable Plano, 469/303-4200 trating and learning, Unfortunately, this isn’t an body,” says Dr. Brandy M. Roane, ADHD,” says Dr. childrens.com given the underlying exceptional night but has become a licensed clinical health psycholo- Mohsin Maqbool, Family Sleep physiology of their more of the norm, admits Megan gist and certified behavioral sleep pediatric sleep spe- Diagnostics Clinics nighttime tendencies. Fulbright, Will and Betsy’s mom. medicine specialist for Cook cialist at Texas Child Sleep Center at Las Colinas The Fulbrights “[Betsy’s] not disruptive,” Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth. Neurology in Plano. Medical Center, Las Colinas // know they need some Fulbright says. But it makes morn- “Just like we use clocks to tell us “When I ask about Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Flower Mounds, professional assis- ing difficult — really difficult. what time of day it is, this clock sleep, a significant Flower Mound tance before Betsy Kids with night-owl tenden- tells your cells what they need to proportion of those 855/714-0011; begins kindergarten cies, like Betsy, are at a greater do and when they need to do it.” kids are in a spiral of familysleepdiagnostics.com in the fall. Until risk for academic, emotional and And research now suggests that acute or cumulative then, they’ll keep the behavioral problems, regardless of a child’s (as well as adult’s) prefer- sleep deprivation.” schedule the same: an how many hours of sleep a child ence for early or late sleep patterns, Which is oftentimes the result of early bedtime, knowing she’ll be up actually gets a night. also known as chronotypes, may be being naturally nocturnal. late. “Thank goodness for the forgiv- It’s all related to our internal partly rooted in her genes, though So, we ask: Is it possible to reset ing start time in the morning — for ©ISTOCK.COM/STEREOHYPE; FOMINOX; IN-FUTURE FOMINOX; ©ISTOCK.COM/STEREOHYPE; central clocks, which are individual environment and age also play a an internal clock? now,” Fulbright says. northtexaschild / march 2017 5 THE SIMPLE JOYS OF ZOO MEMBERSHIP Wild Encounters ... wandering paths ... watchful eyes ... adventure awaits every day at the Fort Worth Zoo! With a Zoo membership, you get unlimited admission, so you can play for a moment or a day. It’s the perfect way to create lasting memories with your family. BECOME A ZOO MEMBER! FORTWORTHZOO.ORG 616-ZOO-2702_Membership_HalfPageHorizontal_5.inddmarch 2017 / northtexaschild 1 12/5/16 11:13 AM real CATHERINE AND SEAN moms. LOWE SOAK UP THEIR PRECIOUS NEWBORN, SAMUEL, BORN LAST JULY. atherine him; now I’m kind of Giudici obsessed with my baby. Lowe is, in I definitely need to C her words, work a little harder to “an open book.” reconnect with Sean. Since falling in love ARE YOU ABLE with entrepreneur Sean TO SQUEEZE IN DATE Lowe during he 2013 NIGHTS? Sean’s mom season of The Bachelor hangs out with Samuel (and marrying him in a every week. We get live television ceremo- “Lovey Day” — that’s ny a year later), she’s her grandma name — lived — and thrived — so we get to spend time in the public eye. with each other doing “Sean and I share things for ourselves. everything in our But we definitely need interviews and on to make more time for Instagram,” she says. MOM NEXT DOOR / date nights. (It’s @catherinegiudici, WHAT’S YOUR in case you’re curious.) FAVORITE WAY “We’re transparent TO SPEND TIME about the way we live Catherine Giudici Lowe TOGETHER? We love and make sure we stay sushi. We love to do true to ourselves.” luxe stationery founder marathons of movies. So transparent, in HOW HAVE YOU fact, that they once INTERVIEW NICOLE JORDAN BALANCED A NEW took a polygraph test BUSINESS WITH A on Jimmy Kimmel Live! NEW BABY? I have to prove their commit- an assistant who ment to celibacy until comes to my house. I marriage. Truly, nothing is off limits. as “Happy Happy,” “Isn’t She Lovely” and thought having a new business before having a A Dallas transplant by way of Seattle, Lowe “Woo Hoo.” baby would give me a reason to stay home, but now has more fodder than ever for her 1.2 mil- LAST YEAR WAS A BIG YEAR.