Local Moms & Kids

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  2025 Holiday Events Guide: Northwest Arkansas Christmas lights, activities and events

  11/14/2025

  Northwest Arkansas Holiday Events Guide 2025: Christmas lights, activities and events Happy holidays, mamas! We’re ready for some the fa-la-la-la-fun Northwest Arkansas! Click on the name of any event for more information. See a list [...]

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  The Rockwood Files: Coming of phone-age

  10/25/2025

  By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mom of 3 I don’t know how old I was when my parents let me answer our family’s phone, but I was younger than most. In the early 1980s, [...]

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  The Rockwood Files: Tummy time for grown-ups

  10/11/2025

  By Gwen Rockwood, newspaper columnist and mama of 3 Hold your head up. Not just because you’re a fine, upstanding human being. Not just because it makes you look better in photos. Do it because, [...]

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  The Rockwood Files: The one-eyed, no good, very bad day

  10/04/2025

  Last Thursday, I sat in a packed parking lot on a college campus teeming with people in a city of more than 100,000. But I might as well have been alone on a leaky raft [...]

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  Tired of the whining? Try this.

  09/24/2025

  There’s nothing that sucks the energy out of the day quite like a whiny kid. It’s one of those behaviors that can quickly become the normal way of communicating, if we’re not careful. You can [...]