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March 2020 • Volume 37 • Issue 1 EDITOR & PUBLISHER Michele Miller Where It’s At! Seeking Spring! GENERAL MANAGER Paul Kline SALES REPRESENTATIVES Jennifer Staebell Paul Kline GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Karen Wawszczyk Melanie Schroeder CONTRIBUTORS Barbara Blackburn • Donna Phillips Patrick Hempfing • Deborah Williams Kathy Lundquist • Myrna Beth Haskell Mike Daugherty /WNYFamily /WNYFamily /WNYFamily Visit Our Web Site www.wnyfamilymagazine.com To Reach Us: Advertising Department [email protected] Calendar Submissions [email protected] Subscriptions [email protected] Editorial Submissions [email protected] MAILING ADDRESS: 3147 Delaware Ave., Suite B Buffalo, NY 14217 Phone: [phone] • Fax: [phone] PRINTED BY: Commercial Printing Division The Post-Journal, Jamestown WE ARE AN AUDITED PUBLICATION CIRCULATION (copies printed): 20,000 © 2020 Western New York Family, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in any form without permission is strictly prohibited. Inclu- sion of an advertisement does not constitute an endorsement by the publisher. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS: MAILED FIRST CLASS, IN AN ENVELOPE SAME DAY ISSUE IS DELIVERED FROM THE PRINTER: $28 one year, $52 two years, $75 three years. Phone & online orders accepted with credit cards. Gift subscriptions available. Single copies & back issues by mail, $2.50. IF YOU MOVE: Missed issues will not be re- placed if we do not receive an address change before issue mailing date. Features: 6 n Get Ready for Spring! 10 Ways to Prep in the Rainy Season by Janeen Lewis 8 n It’s Time For A Spring Celebration! by Pam Molnar 10 n Park the Plow: How Snowplow Parenting Hurts Kids’ Success by Malia Jacobson 12 n It’s 2020: Time To Teach Teens “Safe” Sexting 22 n Summer Camp & Fun Fair 25 n 18th Annual ELDERCARE GUIDE A Special Pull-Out Section • • • • • • • • • • The Sandwich Generation Aging in Place: Growing Old at Home New Technology Helps Seniors Aging with Optimism When It’s Time to Leave Home Cognitive Impairment: Thinking & Memory Assessment Routine Part of Primary Care Important Documents Everyone Should Organize Coping with Role Reversal How to Care for the Caregiver Burdens & Blessings: Part 2 Regulars: 5 n Web Finds / What’s New In The Kid Biz 24 n Calendar of Events 52 n Family Travel Rochester, NY by Deborah Williams 54 n Raising Digital Kids Don’t Believe Everything That You Read… by Mike Daugherty 56 n Dad & Daughter Discussions The Flour Attack by Patrick & J.L. Hempfing 57 n Parent Previews Frozen II by Kirsten Hawkes 58 n Pick of the Literature by Dr. Donna Phillips 62 n Dear Teacher by Peggy Gisler & Marge Eberts 64 n Special Needs Autism Myths & Truths by Sarah Lyons 66 n Tweens and Teens Hooked on Hookah: Teens Experiment with an Ancient Smoking Method by Myrna Beth Haskell 68 n Single Parenting Keeping the Balance: Five Principles to Live By by Diane Dierks, LMFT 70 n The Kid Friendly Kitchen Stuffed Peppers/Poached Salmon by Kathy Lundquist 71 n The Kiddie Gourmet Nellai Banana Leaf by Barbara Blackburn Directories: 14 n Summer Camps 60 n Wellness Choices 71 n Let’s Party You’ll find FREE courtesy copies of WNY Family at all Buffalo area Wegmans and 300 locations including Public Libraries, Doctors’ Offices, Child Care Centers and many of our advertisers. (Look for us INSIDE Wegmans on the racks where newspapers are sold or at the service desk... but we’re still FREE...Copies are restocked twice a week, but they go fast!) Find this entire issue online at www.wnyfamilymagazine.com March 2020 WNY Family 3