| Prepare your pets well before baby comes home
Q. We are expecting our first child in a few months. We have a cat and a dog, and would like to know any precautions we should take to protect our child from possible problems with our pets. A. Now is the perfect time for preparing your pets for the presence of an infant in the house. Your pets not only have to adjust to the infant but also to all the paraphernalia that comes with a new baby. It is better if your pets do not have to adjust to new items and an infant at the same time. Take walks with your leashed dog while you are pushing the empty stroller. If your dog attacks the wheels or tries to run away from the stroller, use positive reinforcement such as treats. The key is to have your pet associate good things with the stroller. Do not let your pet play with the new toys because it may think the toys belong to it.
Bayside YMCA offers fitness program for home-schooled students
On a recent afternoon eight children ran enthusiastically after a soccer ball inside the Bayside YMCA gymnasium, chasing the ball across the floor and into and out of the corners. Although it looked like an ordinary program at the Bayside YMCA, this group was unique. The program is geared specifically for children who are home-schooled. According to Peter Duffy, the sports and recreation director at the local YMCA, the home-school physical education class is the only one of its kind anywhere in the state. "I can tell you we're one of a kind. There are no other Y's that have it," Mr. Duffy said. The home-school physical education class first got started when a home-schooling parent from Barrington asked about the possibility of such a program. That was about six years ago, Mr.
First impressions of Camille Pissarro
BALTIMORE -- Camille Pissarro is not as famous as Claude Monet and Paul Cezanne, but he played a significant role in the development of French impressionism. A transitional figure between the academy and the avant-garde, Pissarro helped to push painting into the dappled, dotted and deliberately abstract world of modern art. His greatest strength was a willingness to gamble artistically -- and to mentor younger colleagues, including Monet and Cezanne, who risked even more.
Recent years have produced museum exhibitions and books reassessing Pissarro's role as impressionism's instigator. Now, the Baltimore Museum of Art joins the effort in staging a show of the artist's experimental works from the decade leading up to the first impressionist exhibition in 1874. "Pissarro: Creating the Impressionist Landscape," opening tomorrow, is a sumptuous, nuanced exhibit of 45 paintings that reveals the artist to be more conservative than his better-known brethren, even while pioneering the new style.
The Mix: Fast, random and relevant facts
It was fun to see 60-something fashion designer Betsey Johnson strut the catwalk during Fashion Week in New York this past week with her granddaughter Layla in her arms. Johnson ended the show with her signature cartwheel, in high heels, and landed as gracefully as a teenage gymnast. .
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