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Just Add Kids EXPO! 2015 Preview Time! by Just Add Kids Founder, Paula Herrmann We hope you accept our invitation to attend our 6th Annual Just Add Kids EXPO! taking place at Case High School on Saturday, April 18th from 9am-2pm. Not only do we have an amazing line up of exhibitors coming and sharing their family friendly products and services, but a ton 'o fun for not a lot of dough. In fact, admission is FREE! How does that happen? Well, the FREE comes with a great partnership with Racine Unified School District , as well as support from our expo sponsors Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare-All Saints , Educators Credit Union , Racine County Eye , and The Party Company, LLC . Let's open the door to the Case High School field house and walk in. Read more... You will be greeted by some great young people handing out our event program. Make sure to grab one! (Not a kid, a program.) To the right you'll see "Just Add Kids Central". At our home booth, your kids will be abl

CenteringPregnancy™ A New Model of Prenatal Care Sponsored by Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare – All Saints   Finding out you are pregnant can be one of the happiest yet most overwhelming times in your life. You’re not alone. Many women need support from people who are going through the same thing. All Saints is offering a new way of providing pregnancy care for women. It’s called CenteringPregnancy. Read more... What makes CenteringPregnancy so unique? CenteringPregnancy uses a group model of prenatal care that combines three important factors – health assessment, education, and support. In this model of care, not only do women get to spend more time with their health care provider, they engage with other pregnant women, which gives them a chance to learn a lot more about pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting. How does it work? Rather than each woman meeting with her health care provider in the doctor’s office, they are placed in a group with other women with similar due dates. Each grou

The Lift Up  by Just Add Kids founder, Paula Herrmann The winner: The bullied The loser: The bully   The best thing to pass through my social media newsfeeds this week has to be the story of the 8th grade cheerleader with Down syndrome from Lincoln Middle School in Kenosha, who was being bullied from the stands at a basketball game this past Monday. The heroes of this scenario are the three boy's basketball players, or so it seems. Here's the link to the original Today's TMJ4 news segment that quickly went viral:   Basketball players defend Kenosha cheerleader targeted by bully. Doing my little investigative reporting here, you all must know, evidence of rallying behind Desiree Andrews, the cheerleader, is obvious weeks before this news story (as wonderful as it is) broke!  Read more... Not much of a journalist here, yet, I was curious to see what was going on at the school; how they were celebrating the popularity of their school's breakout heroes and heroine.  Thank g

[caption id="attachment_3145" align="alignright" width="150"] Source: www.thunder1320.com[/caption] The Traffick Stop by Just Add Kids founder, Paula Herrmann ...When you're walking down the street. They're the people that you meet each day. Well, we certainly hope not! But, maybe so. I'm talking about those engaged in human sex trafficking. You do remember that song from Sesame Street, right? That was from a day when my parents felt safe letting us kids run around in the neighborhood for hours on end. Riding our bikes for miles to get to our friends. That surely isn't the picture that's painted these days. Is it. Read more... I am a seeker and processor of information. A lot of things have crossed my path, more so since starting and running Just Add Kids.  It's my job and my duty to you. Anything baby, kid, family, mom....my eyes and ears perk up. So why when I first started seeing the phrase "human trafficking" show up