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Shimmie Into the Holidays with Tribal Belly Dance

December 17, 2012 1 Comment

For many of us, the Holiday Season can be the most difficult time of the year for those trying to lose weight. Times spent together with family and friends, the company Holiday party; it’s a time for lots of eating and drinking. Every occasion is an excuse to take a holiday from our normal eating […]

Fueling the Innate Love for Learning

December 14, 2012 No Comment

FasTracKids is a multi-day preschool and camp program designed to prepare children for the future. Established in 2007, FasTracKids was located at the Torrey Hills Shopping Center in Carmel Valley until it moved in 2010 to its current location on Mango Drive in Del Mar, CA. FasTracKids caters to children between the ages of 3 […]

What about Bob?

December 4, 2012 No Comment

Not everyone is happy when the holiday season approaches especially if he or she has withstood some sort of crisis or loss over the past year. The loss of a loved one, a divorce, or significant changes in one’s health or occupational status can cause feelings of shock, despair, sadness, or even depression. For any […]

Torrey Hills Resident Presents Vocalist from Bulgaria!

November 9, 2012 No Comment

On November 10, 2012 from 6 to 9 pm the LA Bulgarian-American Cultural Center and a Torrey Hills resident, Vassya Valentino, present to the community two of the very best vocalist from Bulgaria. Ocean Air MUR will accommodate the concert. The event goal is to introduce children and adults to the extremely rich and complex […]

Dance Hearts’ Bells of Freedom “The Big Thank You” Event

November 1, 2012 No Comment

Dance Hearts’ Bells of Freedom “The Big Thank You” Event Begins November 1st, 2012. Be a part of a Carmel Valley’s Holiday Tradition and ‘adopt’ a Military family for the Holidays TODAY! With the beginning of the Holiday Season just days away, there’s no better time to join the Carmel Valley based Dance Hearts, a […]

Curbing Entitlement in Children

October 23, 2012 No Comment

Just exactly what is entitlement? Entitlement is when a child assumes that he or she is deserving of something that they have not earned. In other words, they assume they should receive something for the mere fact of being who they are. Within this paradigm, there is not a causal relationship between good effort and […]

“Teen Bumps”

October 19, 2012 No Comment

First come the “kid bumps” (those times when a child’s behavior triggers the parent to actually enforce change to avoid further setbacks in development), and then the dreaded “teen bumps” which is a whole different animal. This is because they aren’t those cute little kids anymore acting up. Instead, it’s some mutated organism stuck between childhood and […]

Del Mar Farmer’s Market – from Produce to Education

October 17, 2012 No Comment

There is something about a farmer’s market that I just love. I’m not sure if it’s the idea of supporting local farmers, being able to buy organic fresh produce or just seeing some of the same vendors every week and developing a personal relationship with them. I recently stumbled across the Del Mar Farmer’s Market, […]

“Rancho” – La Puerta, That Is!

October 9, 2012 No Comment

Like Cher and Madonna, a one-word name suffices. Say “Rancho” in the spa world and the assumption is Rancho La Puerta. A first-class fitness and health spa mere miles from the U.S.’s southern border, it’s in the town of Tecateat, the base of 3,885-foot Mt. Kuchumaa—revered and named by Native Americans as “the exalted high […]

Dancing Dreams into a Reality – SPAA

October 5, 2012 No Comment

It’s no secret that many little girls dream of becoming a famous ballerina, wearing a frilly pink tutu, and dancing beautifully across the stage in a room full of people. This dream is what inspired many of the amazing dancers to enroll in classes at The Scripps Performing Arts Academy, located in the Torrey Hills […]

My First Real Dance Class

October 4, 2012 No Comment

I’m often asked at what age is a good age for young children to begin dance instruction. Of course, as with every age in human development, each child is born with varying degrees of natural talent, coordination as well as varying degrees of development with no ‘real’ determining at what age each individual is at […]

Kid-Bumps

October 2, 2012 No Comment

If it weren’t for “Kid-Bumps”, we would all be in trouble, and perhaps parents, in general would not be needed. But we all know that leaving our kids alone for too long is likely going to lead to trouble and here is why. A “Kid–Bump” is when your child does something so outrageous that you […]