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MOM’S THE WORD: BEWARE THE SANCTIMOMMY

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You pull into the driveway near the end of a horrifically hectic Wednesday. You cut the engine and, slowly, turn to face what’s behind you:

Bulging backpacks. One science project leaking green goo. A well-used plastic container with two leftover, but partly eaten, birthday cupcakes. A muddy lacrosse stick and, of course, three humans under the age of 11.

You’ve got less than 45 minutes to unload and eat before an evening of ballet, Boy Scouts and biology. Then you applaud yourself for remembering to stop at McDonald’s for the dinner that you won’t have time to make. Well done — just like the burgers.

But, as you pull the fast-food bags from the back seat, she finds you.

Surely, she waited and watched from her kitchen window before hurdling two bikes and the 3-foot hedge in a bionic instant.

“Your children have an insatiable appetite for fried food, don’t they?’’ she asks, grinning as you make a ridiculous attempt to hide the burger bags behind the lacrosse stick.

Translation: You feed your kids too many high-fat meals.

“My Johnny and Janey could give it a try,’’ she continues, “but their sensitive palates simply won’t allow the violent disruption to their digestive systems.’’

Translation: My children consume a strict diet of spinach and bran that, unlike you, I take the time to serve on something other than plastic.

“But of course,’’ she says, still smiling, “one can only do so much.”

Translation: Few are destined to excel at motherhood and you’re not among them.

Ouch! Three jabs from the next-door neighbor and you’re down for the count. Eventually, you’ll find the feet inside your Keds, stand semi-erect and wobble to the front porch.

You’ve endured another round with “sanctimommy’’ and lived to see a new sunset.

A Merriam-Webster Online user defines her as a “mother who points out perceived faults in the parenting of others.’’ That’s a nice way to put it.

Here’s another: an obnoxious and patronizing know-it-all.

Sanctimonious to her cuticles, she could be your sister, an in-law or a yoga friend. Maybe she works for a Fortune 500 company, or perhaps she’s a stay-at-home parent.

If you haven’t met one, I want to meet you.

This is the woman who never forgoes a chance to “tsk-tsk’’ your parenting skills while touting her own exceptionalism (and that of her children). Typically, she does it all in an indirect yet condescending tone that cuts cleanly across your oxygen supply.

My daughter was about 3 and flipping through a board book — yes, I think it might have been upside down — when an acquaintance seized the moment to tell me her child of the same age was already reading the newspaper.

Message received.Upon return to work

following the birth of her first baby, a co-worker of my sister’s described the pain of creative scheduling — a sacrifice she and her husband would make to keep their child out of day care. She said the tyke was at too tender an age for all of the germs and potential hazards.

Then she stopped, and eyed my sister, the mother of two. “What did you do?’’ she asked.

Day care.And don’t we all know a mom

who endured 17 hours of labor, sans the drugs, while finishing the laundry and preparing a holiday feast. A story recounted just after confiding that you wanted your epidural with a straw.

Sanctimommies have mastered every subject, every problem. Potty training. Breast-feeding. Teething. Bedtimes. Curfews. Dating. Calculus. Driving privileges and online monitoring.

Your son wants a Hot Wheels Remote Control Stealth Rides Power Treads Tank for Christmas? Hers will thrive with his own imagination and wooden building blocks, thank you very much. And if there must be television, it will be PBS or the Discovery Channel.

If we’re honest, we’ve all harbored sanctimommy thoughts at one time or another. Let’s hope we had the good sense to keep our mouths shut. Sanctimonious parenting is really nothing more than mommy bullying — demeaning others and the way they care for their kids so we can feel better about ourselves.

So I say bring on the bran ... and the burgers. With balance, and a vow to take ourselves a little less seriously, we’re bound to get it right — most of the time.

Barbara Hough Roda, mom to Faith and managing editor of the Sunday News, writes a blog on LancMoms.com. Contact her at [email protected] or 481-7335.

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Mom of the Month

By Maureen LeaderSpecial Features Writer

Just hearing about Michelle Malzacher’s life can make you tired.

Malzacher is the Latin and Linguistics Teacher at St. Leo the Great School. She is also the Home School Association President there. She teaches a weight lifting and a treadmill cardio class at a local gym. She’s been married for 5 years and (do the math) has four sons ages 4, 3, 2, and 4 months.

Whew!Malzacher’s life is definitely

full. She says, “Life is too short. God has given us a great gift. Life is a great adventure and I want to soak it up. I don’t want to miss a thing.”

The Malzacher boys are Noah, 4; Ian, 3; Christian, 2 and Oliver, 4 months. Malzacher says she and her husband, Nick, are very “old school” parents. The two met in Florida when Malzacher went there to visit a cousin. It was a whirlwind romance and the two have never looked back. The couple have a large family but to Malzacher it “just feels right.”

Malzacher believes that the number of children you have really depends on to whom you are married. Nick comes from a family of 10 children — seven brothers and two sisters. Malzacher has two sisters and a large extended family.

“Our house is always noisy, always busy,” says Malzacher.

They believe in discipline, responsibility and routines. “We are teaching our sons that they don’t just get stuff because they want it. And they have to help each other.”

The boys have small, simple, age appropriate routines. When they wake up in the morning they must get dressed before they come downstairs. If they don’t clean up their toys, the toys have to go in to “Mommy’s Toy Box” and are given to charity. There’s dinner, bath time, stories and bedtime. “Very simple,” says Malzacher. “Nothing out of the ordinary. But very simple. Children need routines.”

Malzacher and her husband work together in the raising of the boys. They want their sons to “learn from us about service to others, how to be healthy, how to volunteer and to be adventurous.” She added, “We walk the walk… What I say I do.” She says her secret, if there is one is, “Honestly, (my) wonderful husband. I am very blessed to have such a great partner. We want to live an adventurous life together.”

Malzacher loves Latin and she loves teaching it. She was able to travel through Europe as a student with just her knowledge of that language. “It’s the base of all languages — everything else is attached to it” It was her idea to add the language to the curriculum at St. Leo the Great and she designed the program for the school.

With four children, teaching

school and teaching fitness classes, isn’t planning a date night important? Isn’t time alone with your husband something all working parents need?

Malzacher says yes. But you won’t necessarily find her gazing into her hubby’s eyes across the table at some romantic restaurant.

No — their idea of close couple time together is training for a half marathon or going on a hike. One year Malzacher completed the Ten Mile Broad Street Run in Philadelphia when she was 5 months pregnant. And she and Nick hope to one day take snorkeling lessons together. “I like to do stuff like that,” Malzacher said.

The Malzachers also believe it is good to spend time alone with each of their sons. Every week or so they try to take each boy out to Manhattan Bagel or to Market “My sons have four different personalities.” She said

whether they like to read or draw, “I try to be aware of that.”

It seems that Malzacher is doing it all: living life to the fullest and trying to pack in as much adventure as possible for herself, for her marriage and for her children. But certainly, there

must be something that makes Malzacher apprehensive … something that makes her feel a little unsure …? Does anything scare Malzacher? Anything?

“Having girls,” said Malzacher. Daughters “would scare me.”

Michelle Malzacher is shown with (left to right) Christian, Nick, Noah (standing), Oliver and Ian.

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Malzacher wrote and developed the Latin curriculum for St. Leo’s. She loves the history of the language and how it has affected the cultures of the world.

Malzacher grew up in Lancaster. Sports are usually on the TV in the Malzacher house.Malzacher loves to read and will flip between reading

something that is out now to a classic. She is currently reading “Great Expectations.”

Malzacher does like to cook and she likes trying new recipes. “But no casseroles,” she said

According to her boys, Malzacher’s favorite “boy” color is blue and her favorite “girl” color is purple.

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Left: Children interact with - and hug - alpacas from Eastland Alpacas. Photo by Justin Graybill

Above, left: Amy Houseman, Lancaster, and children Giuliana and Eric pose with Bob the Builder. Photo by Jeff Ruppenthal

Above, right: Nick Plackey, 7, Lancaster, gets checked out by an alpaca. Photo by Jeff Ruppenthal.

Right: Kaylee Fry, 3, Lancaster, was dressed like a witch. Photo by Jeff Ruppenthal

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Elections can be emotional and even divisive. The issues heat up the country, bringing arguing and tension. That’s ok when it’s on television because a mom can turn it off when it gets to be too much for her home and family.

But it is impossible to escape politics completely at home.

Children are exposed to political arguments not only from the media but also in school. Many classrooms hold mock elections to educate kids on the electoral process. But even away from the classrooms children bring their own opinions to the schoolyard.

It’s only natural that political discussions take place around the family dinner table at home. What do moms say? Is it a good thing for our children to share our political views? Or is it better

to let kids step out of the box and think for themselves? But won’t that create unnecessary arguing and tension in the home?

Just how do moms on both sides of the aisle handle politics with their children?

Lanc.Moms.com spoke with a Mountville Democrat, mother of a 13-year-old girl. She said, “I try not to say disparaging things about candidates in front of my daughter. But, I have to admit, sometimes I slip.”

She added, “I never consciously tried to convince my daughter to be a Democrat or a Republican. However, through various conversations that we have had, I realized she is of the Democratic persuasion. I have told her though that if a Republican comes along that I feel is better for the job, I would vote for them.”

A Lancaster Republican mother of two adult daughters and a 19-year-old twin son and

daughter said, “Oh, yes, you bet it is important to me that my children are politically aware! Their future depends on it!” She said she has spoken with her children about politics “since the womb!”

They don’t always agree, she admitted but “I brought them up to ask questions, because that is the way they will learn and understand where someone is coming from, and how the pieces fit together.”

The Republican mom added she is “absolutely proud” of her children for thinking on their own “as long as they were using their head.” Mom also added, “And if they are using their heads, they are good conservatives!”

“I would still love them all if they were democrats… but after I clutched my heart! It would just make family dinners around election times very interesting!”

That’s something that both Democrat and Republican

moms can agree: that having open discussions with your children is always a good thing. If kids can learn and be comfortable with exploring and voicing their opinions with their parents at home, then when they are out on their own it will be easier for them to stand up for themselves.

Plus, a good political discussion — whether your children agree with you or not — is a perfect opportunity to add your beliefs on your morals

and what you think is important. As the Republican mom said, “It really opens other discussions and with kids you can never have enough discussions. It gives

Kids and politics

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By Rochelle A. ShenkSpecial Features Writer

Strasburg is a huge destination for train buffs. Those who enjoy model railroads will enjoy the National Toy Train Museum and the Choo Choo Barn, while those who enjoy their life-size counterparts will enjoy the Strasburg Rail Road with its many activities including a ride on a steam train as well as the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. All these great attractions are located within short distance of one another and all offer a special experience as well as some fun holiday activities.

The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania was established by the state legislature in 1963, and the museum itself opened its doors in April 1975.Over the years a number of improvement projects have resulted in the museum as we see it today with its world-class collection of over 100 historic locomotives and railroad cars. Two other projects are underway — construction of a 16,000 square-foot roundhouse with the existing roundtable as a focal point is in the design stage, and a new geothermal HVAC system for the exhibit hall — and will enhance the visitor experience.

“Families enjoy the full-size authentic locomotives and railroad cars in our collection. For a child, it’s pretty exciting to stand something so huge, and gender really doesn’t matter; girls are a fascinated by trains as boys,” says Deborah Reddig, museum advancement director.

She says that both children and adults like to test their skills with the locomotive cab simulator. Visitors actually experience being the operator

of the train with this authentic freight locomotive cab donated by Norfolk Southern.

“People can climb up in the cab, sit in the engineer’s seat, and take the controls for a simulated ride from Harrisburg to Lancaster with actual video footage of that journey,” Deborah explains.

Additionally there’s a telegraph station in Steinman Station, and an operator (one of the museum’s volunteers) may

be on-hand to show visitors how a telegraph works.

S t e w a r t Junction, a railway education center for children of all ages, is housed in a Victorian-era freight station in the Rolling Stock Hall.

This specially designed hands-on education center made its debut 10 years ago and has been making learning

fun ever since. Activities include operating model trains and exercising their creativity and building skills with Legos or K’nex.

The museum’s education department also works with school groups who tour the museum and groups such as scout troops and other youth groups. Teacher training is offered so that teachers can integrate rail history into their curriculum. The museum also offers a half-day or one-day workshops where scouts can fulfill requirements for their badges and ranks. There’s also a week-long summer day camp. “Barons & Builders” is offered for 9- and 10-year olds with a separate session for 11- and 12-year olds.

The Railroad Museum also hosts a number of special events throughout the year including a garden railway tour and model railroading days. Two of the special events, a Polar Express Party for children and Home for

the Holidays, help create holiday spirit.

Deborah explains that the Polar Express Party was inaugurated several years ago and is now an annual event. It’s held on two Saturdays in December (this year the dates are Dec. 4 and 11) with three party times each day (11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.). There’s a maximum of 20 children per session, and the fee is $10 per child for non-museum members and $5 per child for museum members.

“Children really enjoy this event. We do a reading of ‘The Polar Express’ on one of the historic coaches in our collection so kids really get the feel of being part of the story. They can even come in their pajamas (like the character in the book),” she says.

Children may also create a

take-home craft in “Jack Frost Station” and send their own personal telegram to the North Pole and visit Santa at Steinman Station. Guests at the Polar Express Party also receive a “goodie” bag to take home.

The family-friendly Home for the Holidays is held the same days as the Polar Express Party. The museum will be decked in holiday finery and two groups will provide live music — Brass Ornaments from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 4, and Elite Brass from noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 11.

“Often children attend the Polar Express Party and then join their family in the Home for the Holidays activities. We have volunteers and staffed dressed as passengers and conductors from days gone-by; people really

seem to enjoy that step back in time,” she says.

A number of the museum’s historic locomotives and rail cars will be open to explore, and visitors may also visit with Santa and his helper and send their personal telegram to the North Pole. Cookies and hot chocolate will be served in the museum lobby while supplies last. During Home for the Holidays the museum is also collecting toys for Toys for Tots and non-perishable food items for the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank.

For more information, please visit www.rrmuseumpa.org. The museum is also on Facebook. Information about other activities in Strasburg may be found at www.strasburgpa.com.

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Get your motor runnin’ — Head out to the back yard — Keep those legs a pumping and take that checkered flag a flapping.

Alright, I’m a fan of Mars Bonfire’s: “Born To Be Wild”and sung by: Steppenwolf and yes, I tweaked it slightly. Many individuals may still identify this song with motorcycles, but for this particular crafty activity, a box car with children is perfect.

If you happen to have access to an outdoor speaker system and this song, watch the younger generation explode with enthusiasm, from start to finish with ear to ear grins. If not, do what I did, start humming or singing while the car is taking shape. I believe my son is still singing this while playing with his cars.

A few items are a necessity:An area to run the finished

carsChildren driverslarge boxespaint and brushesscissorsglue and or tapestring/ropeimaginationA horn or whistleA few optional items for

thought:Paper plates for wheelsfoam blocks to decorate areas

on the dashboardknobs as dialscaps from spices for dials or

maybe taillightsfoam sleeves used to insulate

home pipes as bumpers or steering wheels

paper towel or toilet paper tubes for a wheel axle

pipe cleaners for antennascut outs from products in your

own home as mock sponsorsegg cartons for taillights or

hood lights

The list of options really is unlimited, people see so many options from so many items, let your imagination have fun, everyone has the potential and you’re never to old. Children will wander around the house and notice something that could be a very important find for their car assembly.

Things to remember: Always mark the area of the box which will accommodate your child’s waist and legs, then move on from there. Hot glue guns are great for this project, but should be supervised or maybe mom or dad can help.

Duct tape is very handy holding items from the inside, while the glue is setting up.

If a curve is desired in the frame, cut a Y shape and fold in the triangle tab. After the tab is folded in, the remaining edges can be folded onto each other, creating a rounded appearance. Trucks and cars can also be made by cutting out or off a section and reused in other areas, such as a trunk or other portion within the

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By Cathy MolitorisSpecial Features Writer

There’s so much to do in Lancaster County, it’s hard to get bored. But, even the most enterprising families need to get away sometimes, and that’s just what we did last month. We headed to Baltimore, where it’s easier than ever to banish “boredom” from your vocabulary.

THE FIRST STOP: PORT DISCOVERY CHILDREN’S MUSEUM

Located just steps from Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, Port Discovery Children’s Museum beckons little ones to explore science through a variety of hands-on activities. Ranked among the top five children’s museums in the United States, according to Child Magazine, Port Discovery features three floors of interactive, educational exhibits. It’s geared toward ages 2 to 10, but older siblings can still find fun things to do. The centerpiece of Port Discovery is a three-story-tall tree house, complete with rope ladders, slides and bridges. Other permanent exhibits include a giant indoor soccer field, Tiny’s Diner (where kids can “cook” and act as waiters) and Harvest Hill, a roadside market. Temporary and traveling exhibits are also featured, including the current Bob the Builder exhibit.

THE DETAILSPort Discovery is located at

35 Market Place, Baltimore, Md.; phone: (410) 727-8120; on

the Web: www.portdiscovery.org. Hours November through Memorial Day are Tuesday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Admission is $12.95 for ages 2 and up. On select Fridays, Target sponsors a special evening admission rate of just $2 per person from 4 to 7 p.m. Check the Web site regularly for upcoming dates.

WHAT THE KIDS SAYAt 9, my youngest child is

pushing the upper limit of the target age for Port Discovery, but she still had a blast. She loved crawling up through a giant drainpipe and emerging in a huge bathtub in Miss Perception’s Mystery House and she enjoyed setting up elaborate dominoes displays in the R&D Dream Lab. My oldest child, age 12, resisted even going in to Port Discovery because she thought it was for babies, but I caught her enjoying herself in the Adventure Expeditions exhibit, where you travel back in time to 1920s Egypt. Both girls also loved the tree house.

WHAT MOM SAYSWe went on a Target night, so

it cost our family of four just $8 to visit Port Discovery — you can’t beat that deal. Even full price, however, the museum is worth it, especially for families with younger children. There’s enough here to keep your kids entertained for hours. I love that there are plenty of benches located throughout the museum for Mom and Dad to take a

rest and watch the kids play. I also love that Port Discovery is educational in a sneaky way — your kids are learning without even realizing it.

THE SECOND STOP: THE NATIONAL AQUARIUM, BALTIMORE

Think the National Aquarium is all about fish? Think again. The aquarium, located at Inner Harbor, hosts 16,000 animals from more than 660 species of fish, birds, amphibians, reptiles and marine mammals. Three pavilions are ready to be explored, offering an up-close look at the creatures who call the water home. The main pavilion includes five levels of exhibits, ranging from the rain forest to the deepest parts of the ocean. Across an enclosed footbridge, visitors will find the aquarium’s dolphin show and space for traveling exhibits.

Currently, the aquarium is hosting “Jellies Invasion: Oceans Out of Balance.” The third pavilion holds “Animal Planet Australia: Wild Extremes,” a walk-through journey Down Under that’s highlighted by a 35-foot waterfall.

THE DETAILSThe National Aquarium,

Baltimore, is located at 501 E. Pratt St., Baltimore; phone: (410) 576-3800; on the Web: www.aqua.org. Hours are Monday

through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets range from $19.95 to $29.95 per person. On Dec. 4 and 5, the aquarium features “Dollar Days Weekend,” when admission is just $1 per person, on a first-come-first-served basis.

WHAT THE KIDS SAYFrom the moment we entered

the aquarium till the moment we left, the girls were thoroughly entertained. My youngest loved watching the sharks and stingrays play in the water and insisted we take a front-row seat for the dolphin show so we’d be in the “splash zone.” My older daughter particularly enjoyed the rainforest, where she said it felt like she’d traveled to South America.

WHAT MOM SAYSI’ll admit I wasn’t that excited

about visiting the aquarium. You’ve seen one fish, you’ve seen them all, right? Well, I was wrong. I foolishly budgeted two hours for our visit, but it actually took twice that much time to see and do everything. The exhibits provided entertaining views of creatures we know and love and some we’d never even heard of. The details of exhibits like the Australian pavilion and rainforest make you forget you’re in a building in downtown Baltimore.

THE LAST STOP: THE MARYLAND SCIENCE CENTER

At the other end of the Inner Harbor area from the aquarium, families can “touch wonder.” That’s what the Maryland Science Center offers through three floors of interactive exhibits. The center was recently named one of the “10 Best Science Centers for Families” by Parents Magazine and it’s easy to see why. Whether they are playing a stringless harp or touching a cloud in Newton’s Alley, or exploring “Cells: The Universe Inside Us,” kids will get a kick out of this place.

Additional exhibit highlights include “SpaceLink,” where visitors can pilot a Mars rover, and “BodyLink,” which encourages kids to don a lab coat and goggles and use real laboratory tools to conduct experiments.

THE DETAILSThe Maryland Science

Center is located at 601 Light St., Baltimore; phone: (410) 685-5225; on the Web: www.mdsci.org. Hours are Tuesday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission ranges from $11.95 to $24.95. On Fridays through March 25, 2011, admission is

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Kevin isn’t little anymore. Nor is Nicole, Richard or Sue.

Children move quickly from utter helplessness through varying stages of dependence into independence and responsibility. From babyhood to childhood to adolescence to adulthood is only a hop, skip, and a jump in time.

Most children manage this diffi cult course fairly well.

And few of the parents do too.But many parents have trouble

letting go.That the tiny baby has come so

suddenly into maturity is more than parents can believe—or accept—or act upon. Except for wise parents.

Wise parents are sensitive to a growing personality, developing abilities, the struggles for freedom. Through the treacherous teen years they continue to guide, but with a gentle touch. And they allow the teen to test increasing freedom until like the bird tumbling from the warm nest, the youth fi nds his wings do support him, falteringly, yet with study promise.

So they go—into the wide world of opportunity and obligation.

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vehicle, maybe even the dash The dashboard is a simple straight piece of cardboard, with bendable sides to glue into place. String or rope can be tied in the front on either side and looped over the child’s shoulders to the back portion of the car or truck, then tied again. Suspenders also work rather well and can be easy to attached.

Helpful Hint: Many businesses are more than willing to build minds and creativity, ask local stores and garages if

they might have any light weight items they would throw away, you may never know what they have.

Items needed for cloth checkered flags:

roughly 1 yard of black and white checkered cloth per 2 children

a 4 foot 5/16ths dowel, cut into 2 foot sections will produce 2 flag poles

a staple gunThe age group in this story was

between six and nine and each child received a checkered flag to take home. All of the box car drivers were winners with their fantastic vehicles and earned a matchbox car as an award.

The first to cross the finish line received a mini traffic cone with a matchbox car glue on top. Refreshments were also very welcomed after the race and hopefully these drivers went home with their winnings, smiling!

A special thank you goes out to a few local businesses and their contributions:

Ferguson&HasslerStoner-Wade Ford,Inc.Withers Garage

Box car racing can also be enjoyed by the physically impaired.A large box can have a semi-circle cut out to fit around a person’s waist area, with the bottom also removed, allowing the top of the box to rest on the arms of the wheelchair. Two other curved areas, on either side of the box can be removed to allow movement of the wheelchair’s wheels. This will give a nice base to start building a car.

- continued from page 7Box cars

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By Rochelle A. ShenkSpecial Features Writer

Winters Heritage House Mu-seum in Elizabethtown is host-ing a Saturday Art Club for teens and adults.

Nancy Landis, program man-ager and a certified art teacher, explained that the club, which is held from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturdays, began in the spring.

“It’s a very casual group. We welcome anybody who is inter-ested in either learning about or seeking to refine their skills in pencil sketching, painting and crafts. There’s no set curriculum. We want to base the workshops on the desires of participants. We can supplement what a stu-dent may learn in art class by providing an additional opportu-nity to explore a specific area of interest,” she says.

So far participants have worked on pencil sketching and will progress to watercolors.

The living history museum is housed in two restored log houses dating to 1750 and 1812. The grounds also feature an herb garden.

“What’s nice about hosting an art class here is that there are so many neat places in the mu-seum to sketch. We can set up a still life inside or go outside to

the garden for inspiration there,” Nancy says.

Winters Heritage House Mu-seum also is home to the Heri-tage Artisans Guild, a co-op of 17 artisans from Elizabethtown and surrounding areas. These lo-cal artisans focus on historical trades, crafts, and art forms done in both traditional and contem-porary manners.

Art forms represented by the group include wood carving, painting, weaving, gourd art, leatherwork, fraktur, oil painting, porcelain painting, ironwork, handspun and dyed yarns, felt-ing, embroidery, knitting, fabric painting, restored and framed tin ceiling tiles and jewelry, book illustrating and writing, and al-paca fiber art.

“If there’s an area of interest, we can call on one of the artisans to work with the Saturday Art Club,” Nancy explains.

Participation in the Saturday art club is free and open on a drop-in basis. Occasionally a minimal supply fee, not to ex-ceed $4, will be charged.

Winters Heritage House Mu-seum will also host a Children’s Story Hour for children ages 4 to 6 on Friday, December 10. Ses-sions are offered at 9:30 a.m.,

Winters Heritage House Museum hosts art club


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Any mother who has been mothering for at least 10 minutes knows it is impossible to be perfect. Things get lost or forgotten. Tempers flare and things are said. Punishments are thrown sometimes unfairly. Clothes don’t always get washed in time and sometimes we are just too tired or lazy or both and we have to take short cuts from time to time.

Lanc.Moms.com spoke to a number of Lancaster moms who had plenty of “true confessions.” We heard stories about children being forgotten and not picked up. We heard about missed social events, birthday cakes bought at the grocery store at the last minute, lost tempers and over the top groundings in the heat of the moment.

We also heard about inappropriate language (from the moms) and gross shortcuts on cleaning, cooking and wiping.

We heard about moms who lied to their kids.

We heard all kinds of stories from all kinds of moms. We heard stories from moms with babies and toddlers all the way up to moms of teenagers. But the one thing we heard over and over again was they didn’t want anyone else to know their little secrets.

The one thing these moms had in common besides that they had confessions was that they did not want to confess them at all. They were all embarrassed, ashamed and thought they were the only ones who had ever made a mistake or had gotten lazy in their mothering.

These moms were wrong to be concerned about their missteps. Because they are not the only ones… they are not alone. A quick Google search lists web site after web site of moms everywhere confessing their deepest darkest secrets from the deepest pit of motherhood. There are web sites, blogs and

books full of pages and pages of stories. Some stories will shock you. Some will make you laugh out loud. But a lot of these stories may give you a secret “me, too” moment.

Now the children in these confessions were never abused, they were never in danger and they were never unloved. Some of the stories were funny, some were sad and some were gross. But they were all real and

probably not too far out of the ordinary.

Moms confessed to letting their children stay in the car in the driveway if they had fallen asleep on the way home.

Moms confessed to sometimes being too tired to change a wet sheet in the middle of the night, to lying to their children about seeing them do their dive at the pool.

Moms confessed to serving the easiest — not the healthiest of dinners. These confessions were by no means scandalous and they certainly didn’t require a call to social services. But June Cleaver (or your mother-in-law) would raise an eyebrow.

But so what?

We know our kids are happy, healthy and they are all well taken care of. Most of the time.

And they know we love them. Most of the time. So to the moms out there who have similar stories to share but wouldn’t dare share, know you are not alone.

Moms worldwide have the same kinds of confessions. And the best part of all is most of the time our children don’t know.

They don’t know that we are cutting corners because we’re exhausted or we’re having a bad day. They don’t know that their cupcakes are store bought or that their socks were just pulled out of the hamper.

They don’t know, they don’t care and they love us!

me the opportunity to bring up finances, values, honesty, etc.”

It’s those “teachable moments” that moms are always looking for. Those moments that come up out of the blue that give moms a way to communicate what they think

is important without it coming across as a lecture. And if your children do disagree with you, the conversation can also teach them how to be respectful, open and patient of others’ opinions.

And that is always a winning outcome — no matter who gets into office.

- continued from page 5

Kids and politics

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WHAT THE KIDS SAYThe Maryland Science Center

has presented assembly programs at my daughters’ school for years, so they were eager to see the place in person. The creative and fun exhibits did not disappoint. My oldest daughter loved exploring models of the parts of a cell (although this exhibit grossed out my youngest child). For my younger one, lying on a bed of nails made a big impression, as did the “whisper disks” that allowed her to talk to my husband by whispers across the room.

For both girls, however, the highlight of our visit was getting

to observe the sun through the museum’s telescope in the observatory.

WHAT MOM SAYSI remember exhibits like the

ones in Newton’s Alley from museums I visited as a child, so this trip had a nostalgic element for me. I loved watching my daughters see classic exhibits — like using a pulley to lift yourself off the ground in a chair — for the first time. My only regret was that we did this museum last after a full day in Baltimore, so by the time the planetarium show rolled around, it was hard for me to keep my eyes open. We’re definitely going back, but the next time, we’re heading to the science center first.


I’m bored10:45 a.m., and 1:00 p.m. Retired teachers Romaine Campbell and Barbara Eberly and children’s li-brarian Mary Anne Stanley lead the program. It offers a chance to encounter local history, join in a craft or activity, hear a story about traditions or events from long ago, and sample foods that pertain to what they’ve learned.

Cost for Story Hour is $2 per child, adults are free and should plan to stay. Pre-registration re-quired.

For further information con-tact Nancy Landis at 367-4672. Information about Winters Heri-tage House Museum is available at www.elizabethtownhistory.org.


Mom confessions

Art club

Explain the purpose of 9-1-1. It is a method of contacting the police, fire department or ambulance when there is an emergency only. An emergency is when Mom, Dad or someone else in the house is hurt and can’t get up; there is a fire; or the police are needed, like if there is a burglar or a bad fight.

Indicate that the adults in the house will dial the phone whenever possible if there is an

emergency. The child is learning only in case Mom or Dad can’t get to the phone.

Discuss the buttons on the phone. Show the child how to push them in the right order.

Make sure the child knows his or her full name and address. This is something many kindergartners are urged to know.

Roll-play with the child. Go over instances that are emergencies and non-emergencies.

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