Elementary students were treated to a colorful Pride Fashion Show at lunchtime Friday featuring 13 elementary aftercare students wearing outfits they’d designed and made. TK teacher Chloe Gilmore explains that the event was held during Pride Month “because it allowed children to work outside gendered clothing sections in stores and create unique outfits that showed aspects of their personalities.  “Stores divide clothing into ‘girls’ and ‘boys’ sections, which can be restrictive. This fashion...

For years White Pony Director Susie Kohl has been a collector of parents’ stories, and in her new book, The Best Things Mothers Do, just released on Amazon, she shines a loving light on mothers and the ways they handle challenges, sometimes extraordinary, with creativity and resilience.  Susie considers the true stories of mothers in her book heroic because they boldly counter the culture’s stereotypes of the confused mom, either over-involved or in her child’s life or oblivious to their...

Greg with Christie and her soon-to-be-shorter hair Children who will never meet him have Greg Vinson to thank in part for the wigs they received after losing their hair due to cancer treatment or medical conditions like alopecia. When he was one year old, Greg, who works in our elementary aftercare program, was constantly pulling his mother’s hair. His mother, fourth grade teacher Christie Vinson, had a solution: she had it cut so short she could put it in a ponytail that was too short for...