by Guest Author | Jan 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
If you’re like me, this past year has been an anxiety roller coaster! It’s been that way for our kids, too. Now, as they re-enter school full time, reconnect with friends, and start to navigate this “new norm,” it’s important to think and...
by Marion Ruthig | Jun 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
On the surface it looks like the ISC Charity Club is about exposing children to local charities, which of course it is. However, the really exciting thing about our club is that it teaches children a couple of the most powerful things in the world: empathy and...
by Marion Ruthig | Nov 2, 2015 | Live Inside and Out, Uncategorized
In the 1800’s… Children as young as 6 or 8 years old might work, they might run errands and make deliveries for a store keeper, or they may be apprenticed to a skilled craftsman or woman.1 Children knew the community and were a part of it. Members of the...
by Marion Ruthig | Jan 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
Kids are never too young to start volunteering. Are you envisioning a toddler pulling the table cloth out from under an intricately decorated auction table? I have two boys and if you told me they could volunteer when they were that age, I’d have thought you were...
by Marion Ruthig | Jun 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
On Tuesday I had the privilege of being a part of Special Spaces Chicagoland’s room makeover for Ella. Ella is a typical almost four year old in so many ways; especially how she interacts with her older siblings. She reminds me of my daughter who is the same age....
