ARTICLE SHORTCUTS Understanding Healthy Movement | Making Movement Attractive | Modeling an Active Lifestyle | Balance Screen Time and Movement | Bring Back Free Play | Beyond Sports Specialization | Create Movement-Friendly Spaces | Build Your Own Obstacle Course Ten-year-old Tesla Vuckovic is a ninja warrior. Part of a ninja team, he excels at climbing, balancing, and especially performing laches — tricky jumps and swings between obstacles that require strength, skill, and coordination as you propel yourself through the air. With this training and a natural athleticism, he shines at stringing together complex moves in different combos. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, he attended practice twice a week, as well as supplementary parkour classes. But the series of lockdowns and...
The Must-See Artists + Galleries At Melbourne’s Affordable Art Fair Giveaway by Christina Karras Portrait image above: Wiradjuri woman and artist Amanda Hinkelmann. Artwork:Waagan by Amanda Hinkelmann. Photo – Benito Bartin. AMANDA HINKELMAN Represented by Jumbled Wiradjuri woman and artist Amanda Hinkelmann uses her art to tell stories of connection, Country and experience. Her paintings feature soft and earthy colours in their intricate designs, inspired by her family and life spent on Wiradjuri Country – which is also where Amanda now raises her own four kids and creates her beautiful artworks. Left: Earth Elements by Sarrita King. Right: Lightning by Sarrita King Gurindji woman and artist Sarrita King. SARRITA KING Represented by Wentworth Galleries Gurindji woman and artist Sarrita King lives...
This article contains mentions of alcoholism, addiction, suicide, and miscarriage.Back in the '90s, BoJack Horseman was in a very famous TV-show, but in Netflix's critically-acclaimed "BoJack Horseman," viewers get to know the man (er, horse) behind the sitcom characters: a self-destructive, alcoholic, depressed guy who can't come to terms with the fact that his best days might be behind him. The world of "BoJack Horseman" is a colorful, zany one. Its version of the entertainment industry is much like our own, except this universe is full of anthropomorphized animals living alongside humans. Sometimes, celebrity cameos translate 1:1; after all, how can you improve on Beyoncé? Other times, the show invents new versions of stars we know and love (Quentin Tarantulino is, of course, a...
The Nintendo Switch has a potent library for family game nights, but Kirby and the Forgotten Land is a cut above the rest when it comes to introducing your kids to the hobby. Nintendo’s pink, spherical icon debuted thirty years ago in Kirby’s Dream Land on the Game Boy, a simple adventure game that was designed to be “a great game anyone could enjoy,” accessible for young or otherwise inexperienced gamers. Since then his series of games has largely kept this philosophy in mind, welcoming new generations with fulfilling, but not necessarily difficult, experiences. I can personally attest to the effectiveness of this approach. Kirby’s Adventure on the NES was probably the first game that I beat front to back...
A lemon battery is one of those widely known experiments that every child should probably do once as they learn about electricity. Honestly, though, it was not one that I was planning to do with my kids. However, my 12-year-old is currently taking the class Batteries are Weird online from the company, Science is Weird (not affiliated, just a fan). After attending class over Zoom last week, he was motivated to try this experiment on his own. We had just gotten a bag of lemons from Costco, so I said go for it! He spent about 30 minutes working on it by himself using copper pennies and nails, but was still having some trouble. Seeing him working so hard, I...
