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Well received: Loyola Academy senior wideout Rory Boos coming off a breakthrough football season last fall. P17

SOCIAL SCENE Supporters beaming after Erika’s Lighthouse event raises nearly $100,000.P9

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Patrons likely to applaud Encore & More’s re-launch

WITHOUT BORDERS Lake Bluff urologist takes his children to work with him — in Lebanon

BY LIBBY ELLIOTT THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

With its bright blue awning and colorful display windows, the retail consignment store Encore & More has been a fixture on Central Street in Wilmette for more than two decades.

But times are a-changing for this longstanding retailer.

Previously owned and managed as a charitable enterprise by the National Council of Jewish Women Chicago North Shore (NCJWCNS), Encore & More was acquired by the YWCA Evanston/North Shore on July 23, ushering in a new era for the popular resale shop.

Creating more of a boutique-ish atmosphere and improving Encore & More’s quality of merchandise are just a few of YWCA Evanston/ North Shore’s goals in the coming months.

An official re-launch of Encore & More is planned for January.

“This is an exciting new venture for us, and we’re grateful that NCJWCNS wanted to pass the baton to us,” said Karen Singer, president and CEO of YWCA Evanston/North Shore. “Our organizations believe in the same things: social justice and helping women and families. It feels like a seamless transition.”

For more than 25 years, Encore & More’s loyal

THE ALSIKAFI TRIANGLE: Dr. Nejd Alsikafi of Lake Bluff stands behind his children Alia, 20, Yusef, 18, and Salma, 16.

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NEWS FIELD TRIPS Cont. from PG 1 places where his expertise is desperately needed.

Alia, 20, and Yusef, 18, watched their father treat grateful patients.

“They’ve told me what a cool experience it is to see how our dad helps people,” says 16-year-old Salma, already looking forward to joining her father for a trip to Lebanon next spring.

Alsikafi’s first humanitarian foray was to Haiti when he was in the last year of his residency at the University of Chicago. He then completed a fellowship at the University of California-San Francisco in urologic trauma and reconstruction.

“I am a strong proponent of giving back,” Alsikafi, 46, says. “The skill sets I have are very helpful.”

He traveled with International Volunteers Urology (IVUmed.org), an organization that “provides world-class medical and surgical training to physicians and nurses in low-resource areas of the world,” according to its website.

It was a revelatory experience, Alsikafi notes.

“The reality [in Haiti] was, they had heard there was a urologist coming, and one man walked for three days,” he says. “We couldn’t operate on him because he got an infected foot [from the trip].”

Alsikafi made a pact with himself to continue his volunteer work abroad—before “life intruded,” he recalls. He started his own practice, got married and had children. But three years ago, he decided he could take some time off. An anesthesiologist at his hospital had worked with the Syrian American Medical Association, a global medical relief organization.

“He knew the process,” Alsikafi says, “so I thought, ‘Why not jump in with him?’”

He went to Lebanon.

“It’s a great place to go on a first mission to the

in her junior year at the University of IllinoisChampaign, was the first of Alsikafi’s children to accompany her father to Lebanon. She went the summer before her first year in college.

“I knew that was going to be a big adjustment for my parents,” she says with a laugh. “I had never gone on a trip, just the two of us. It was great bonding time.”

While she wasn’t scared about traveling to the volatile region (“The organization had everything planned,” Alia says), she didn’t know what to expect.

“I was most nervous about the language barrier.

We’re partly Iraqi and have relatives who speak [the language], but we’re not fluent. When we arrived, there were other doctors from America, and they brought their children, as well. I was able to make my own friends and share these experiences with other American kids.”

Her biggest takeaway, she says, was that the downtrodden appearances of the refugees were deceiving. Interacting with them, she realized they were educated, had held jobs and had stable family lives.

“But because of the war, they lost everything,” Alia says. “The little kids had seen bombs and Dr. Nejd Alsikafi, a Lake Bluff urologist, with horrible injuries, but they were still able to smile two of his children — Alia, 20, and Yusef, 18. and laugh at simple things.”

PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER The experience also gave her a better appreciation for her father’s work.

Middle East,” he says. “Beirut is a very beautiful, “I was able to witness the ability all of these cosmopolitan city, and to get to where the refugees doctors have, and seeing my dad as one of them are takes only an hour. Along the Syrian-Lebanese was really cool,” Alia says. “One man with a shrapborder, there were physicians and lots of patients. nel injury had a pelvic fracture and could not walk.

The big takeaway is, we’re all neighbors. I love My father had to reconstruct his urethra before taking my kids there, taking them out of their the man could get the surgery to be able to walk environment and showing them a part of the world again. The doctors there have little resources—reno one really sees.” (His wife, Fauzia, a dentist, sources they need to perform these complex surgersupports the trips). ies.

Alia, a psychology major and pre-med student “My dad loves finding ways to do that. It was awesome.”

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mined a similar trip would be “too big of an experience to pass up”—though, at the time he was scheduled to go last year, he was in the midst of AP testing and his tennis season.

“It was a blast,” Yusef, a four-year varsity netter at Lake Forest High School, recalls. “I was nervous and not sure what to expect. My experience was different than Alia’s. In the camps I visited, there were no schools. The camps were terrible places, and there was nothing that would enable the refugees to leave. There were tons of huts—clay walls with tarps on them that [housed] five or six in each one. It puts things in perspective and makes you feel privileged for what I have here in America.”

For Dr. Alsikafi, a volunteer mission is a gift that keeps on giving beyond the quality time spent with his children and the friendships he forged with his Beirut colleagues.

“Something a friend of mine who went with me once said still resonates with me,” he says. “They give us more than we can ever give them.”

ditional funds for its domestic violence and economic empowerment programs, but also as a way to embolden women by providing job-readiness training at the shop itself.

“We’re looking forward to enhancing what the shop can be, particularly as a tool for women who are rebuilding their lives [after having endured either] domestic violence or economic hardship,” Singer said. “Encore & More would be an opportunity for the women in our programs to get back into the work place and get retail experience.”

Singer says Encore & More’s visibility is also an opportunity for people along the North Shore to know about the YWCA Evanston/North Shore’s ongoing work.

“We were impressed with its reputation as a quality resale shop with a firm footing in the community,” Singer said. “It’s a great way to engage volunteers who want to get involved in our mission.”

Business hours will remain the same at Encore & More, as will the shop’s policy of accepting donations of new and gently used clothing during store hours. Always on the lookout for new volunteers to help with inventory and sorting, the YWCA Evanston/North Shore’s management team hopes to make this “cash-positive” business even more successful.

“Our transition team is busy making changes,” Singer said.

customer base purchased items from the store’s rotating inventory of high-end, second-hand clothes for men, women and children, as well as small furniture, jewelry, handbags, housewares and collectibles. Profits from the resale shop—stocked with community donations and staffed with unpaid volunteers— provided a major source of funding for the NCJWCNA’s advocacy work, community service, and educational programs aimed at improving the quality of life of women, children and families.

Nonetheless, according to NCJWCNS Executive Director Melissa Prober, the time had come to hand over the reigns.

“We felt like YWCA/Evanston North Shore, which is completely aligned with our mission, could take this enterprise to the next level,” Prober said.

YWCA Evanston/North Shore serves more that 10,000 people annually in Chicago and 16 suburban communities and works to eliminate racism and empower women through direct service, education, training and advocacy. The organization supports this work with government funding, grants, private donations and its fee-based gender and domestic violence prevention-training programs, as well as the YWCA’s popular aquatics program.

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Ray Bradbury Experience Museum SOMETHING WONDERFUL THIS WAY COMES...

BY KARINA KAVANAGH THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

Waukegan native Ray Bradbury was nothing short of a science fiction icon. His international reputation was solidified with the groundbreaking 1950 publication of The Martian Chronicles, telling the story of Earthlings trying to conquer Mars. From there, novels such as Fahrenheit 451 and Dandelion Wine defined a new American genre and changed the way we see the world.

In 2020, a new 3,500-square-foot interactive facility that explores the major themes of the late author’s life and work will honor that legacy and invite a new generation to discover what is being called the Ray Bradbury Experience Museum (RBEM). It will be appropriately located in Bradbury’s hometown of Waukegan (affectionately referred to as “Green Town” in his novels) but supporters of RBEM are spread throughout the North Shore.

Sandra Petroshius of Lake Forest currently leads the board of directors for the new museum and was one of the pioneers of the idea. Soon after Bradbury’s death in 2012, Petroshius began working with The Greater Waukegan Development Coalition to find a way to pay tribute to one of the city’s most famous native sons.

Specific exhibit designs are still being developed but “the goal is to engage visitors in Bradbury’s imagination,” explains Petroshius, who personally

and authors whose work or lives were touched by Bradbury.

Petroshius and another board member from Lake Forest, Terry Fertig, are currently working with Bradbury scholars and academic experts from all over the country to make this vision a reality.

“Imagine Ray Bradbury back in Waukegan, where he spent most of the first 14 years of his life. the Ray Bradbury ExpeAuthor Ray Bradbury would have turned 100 in 2020 — the year his rience Museum will hometown, Waukegan, plans to open a museum to honor his legacy. allow us to imagine the high points of his recalls seeing him in the Waukegan Library, “white- life and career through the wonder of interactive haired, but tirelessly signing books for hours until images, voices and sounds,” wrote Jonathan Eller, everyone who sought one had one.” Multimedia director for the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies at exhibits will include virtual and augmented reality Indiana University in a flier that was distributed at a with themes of space travel, magic and freedom. There recent Comic-Con International Festival in San will also be exhibits dedicated to The Martian Chron- Diego. “RBEM is shaping up to be a centennial icles, Dandelion Wine, Fahrenheit 451, and Something celebration that will live forever.”

Wicked This Way Comes, along with a biographical Bradbury’s work—which spans science fiction, exhibit and an “Inspired By” section—an impressive mystery, and horror—was justifiably awarded during undertaking that will feature famous artists, directors his lifetime, with accolades that included a Hollywood

Walk of Fame star, a Pulitzer Prize citation, and a National Medal of Arts. He was consulted by Walt Disney World to create the storyline and script for Spaceship Earth, a futuristic attraction at Epcot Center. Bradbury is even memorialized in space—the landing site of the Mars Curiosity Rover is named Bradbury Landing, and an impact crater on Earth’s moon was named Dandelion Crater by the Apollo 15 astronauts, in honor of Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine.

Building a museum from the ground up is no easy feat, but Petroshius and her team are consistently motivated by the man they are working to memorialize. “Ray Bradbury was a positive, loving human being with a boundless imagination,” she says. “He saw through to the heart of issues and fully embraced life.” The RBEM team is also encouraged by the author’s four daughters, who have given the museum their enthusiastic endorsement.

Given Bradbury’s own love of comic books, Petroshius says the July Comic-Con event was the perfect venue to reveal plans for the museum to the public.

RBEM had a booth with images of its proposed exhibit in honor of The Martian Chronicles and provided samples of augmented reality experiences.

The Ray Bradbury Experience Museum plans to open its doors at 13 N. Genesee Street in Waukegan in August 2020, timed to coordinate with Bradbury’s August 22, 1920 birth. Petroshius says it will be a centennial celebration for the ages.

For more information, visit raybradburyexperiencemuseum.org.

Combating childhood obesity, from A (Apples) to Z (Zucchinis) TEENAGER HUPRIKAR DESIGNS BOARD GAME — OBJECT: PROMOTE HEALTHY EATING — AND GETS PUBLISHED IN SCIENCE JOURNAL

BY JULIE KEMP PICK THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

Budding entrepreneur Annika Huprikar loves family board games and has a desire to teach healthy eating habits to youngsters.

She combined both passions two summers ago, designing the board game FRUGGIE (for FRUITS and VEGETABLES).

Board silly?

No. Board serious.

Huprikar, only a freshman-to-be at Deerfield High School in the summer of 2016, sought to come up with a fun, engaging product that would help combat obesity among children by espousing the consumption of fruits and vegetables before chips and candy.

“I wanted to build a board game that promotes family interaction, which I think is super important,” says Huprikar, now 16. “I know that obesity is a prevalent problem in our nation, especially among children, and it’s even harder to reverse eating habits when you get to be an adult.”

In June the Journal of Emerging Investigators ( JEI), a nonprofit scientific journal operated by Harvard University graduate students, published Huprikar’s scientific manuscript, “FRUGGIE—a board game to combat obesity by promoting healthy eating habits in young children”.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), obesity now affects one in six children and adolescents in the United States. Childhood obesity can lead to serious medical conditions,

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including high blood pressure, high cholesterol, Type 2 diabetes and asthma.

Huprikar started researching and collecting data for a six-month project in October 2016. She worked with DHS Science Department Chair Judi Luepke, who was instrumental in finding participants for the study. Ten local participants, ages three to seven, were targeted for her board game research for a very good reason.

“Because,” Huprikar says, “that’s the age where parents are starting to have their children eat different foods.”

FRUGGIE players roll dice and move across the board using their fruit and vegetable game pieces, all of which were created on a 3D printer. Options include landing on anything from a blank space to a board game space with the instruction, “Move two slices of an apple.”

The real challenge is when players are faced with the temptation to eat a piece of candy. If they fail to resist it, they must move back two spaces on the board.

“The board game is two-fold: teaching children the importance of eating healthy and teaching children to eat sugar in moderation, because the spaces say if you eat a piece of candy, that’s okay, but then you have to move back a couple spaces,” Huprikar says. “It tests whether the children are willing to eat a piece of candy or whether they’d prefer to progress through the game without eating something sugary.”

The learning continues at the trivia spaces, where, upon landing, the player picks up a card containing information that’s food-, exercise- or health-related.

Instead of having the children simulate eating fruits and vegetables, Huprikar supplied the partici-

pants with freshly chopped fruits and vegetables from Whole Foods.

“They were actually eating during the game, which felt more real,” she says.

Huprikar also brought in M&M’s to represent the candy.

While doing research for FRUGGIE, Huprikar read a Chicago Tribune article by Dr. Linyuan Jing, of Geisinger Health System, about childhood obesity and then contacted her.

“She was one of my mentors, because she gave me feedback in designing the game and helped me figure out the duration of the study,” Huprikar says.

After Huprikar completed her paper, she submitted it to the JEI, hoping to experience the feeling of having authored a scientific paper. Both Luepke and Jing guided Huprikar through the steps of submitting the work to the journal.

“It was a long process, but I enjoyed it because I had several people reviewing my paper and I really wanted their feedback,” Huprikar says. “I think it helped me understand how to improve my paper and become a better researcher.”

The results revealed that the children had increased their enjoyment for fruits and vegetables.

“This indicated that the children no longer felt it was a chore to eat fruits and vegetables,” Huprikar says. “Many of the children decided that they didn’t want to eat the candy, because they didn’t want to move back in the game and possibly lose. They were so competitive at playing against their family members, and they found winning to be more important than consuming sugar.”

One of Huprikar’s goals is to provide FRUGGIE

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to area preschools—with the students getting to play the game during snack time. She’s also working on finding a place to sell the board game.

In addition, Huprikar built a wireless app for the iPhone and iPad. The app is a similar to FRUGGIE’s concept, centering on building a healthy food pyramid.

She’s currently looking for 40 research participants (ages six to nine). She hopes to begin shortly after all of the participants are lined up.

“I found it rewarding that the board game did make a difference and had a positive impact on the eating habits of the children who participated in my study,” she says.

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Boos draws applause Loyola Academy football fans eager to catch senior wideout’s Act II on varsity

BY BILL MCLEAN

The double burger at Culver’s tasted great, hit the spot. Loyola Academy senior-to-be and Glenview resident Rory Boos had consumed it, the meaty trophy he earned by beating three friends in a round of miniature golf earlier this month.

Boos used a pink ball to finish in the red.

“I also like to play regular golf,” Boos, a fine chipper, says.

Boos enjoys bowling, too, competing against friends at least once a week in the summertime. His recent pinfall of 140 meant he wouldn’t get to eat for free later that night.

Come fall, though, nobody in Ramblers Nation will care if Boos continues to solve that tricky windmill

“Great hands, great speed, explosive off the line. And Rory runs outstanding routes, precise ones. I love going against him in practice.”

hole in mini golf. Or holes in from a sand trap or the rough. Or rolls a 300 game in bowling.

Boos, a 6-foot, 165-pound wide receiver with 4.53 speed in the 40, catches footballs. Very well. A first-year starter last fall for the Class 8A state runner-up, Boos paced a 12-2 Ramblers squad in receiving yards with 827 and in touchdown receptions with 11, including an 80-yarder in a 49-7 defeat of Leo in Week 7. He caught a pair of TD pass in a game twice.

“Great competitor,” Ramblers senior safety and University of Penn recruit Jake Gonzalez says of one of LA’s four captains this fall. “Great hands, great speed, explosive off the line. And Rory runs outstanding routes, precise ones.

“I love,” the Wilmette resident adds, “going against him in practice.”

A 30-yard grab from Boos — his first varsity snare — set up LA’s first TD of the season last fall in a 20-14 loss to eventual 5A state champ Phillips in Chicago.

Boos came down with the pigskin inside Phillips’ five-yard line.

“It was an amazing feeling, watching the pass, hanging on to the pass,” Boos recalls. “Seniors came up to me on the field and on the sideline and shouted, ‘That’s the way to step up right away!’

Gonzalez remembers feeling reassured more than anything else following the reception.

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BOOS BURNS 'BACK: Loyola Academy senior wideout Rory Boos, seen here in action last fall, beats a Mount Carmel defensive back in a 31-7 victory. He led the Class 8A state runner-up in receiving yardage (827) and touchdown reception (11). PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER

“With that catch,” Gonzalez says, “Rory established himself as a deep threat for us.”

Boos will be forever grateful for getting the opportunities to secure spirals from quarterback Quinn Boyle (Class of 2018). Boos, on former teammate QB, the quarterback: “The best quarterback I’d ever seen.

“I had high expectations for our team last year; we all did,” adds Boos, who is bigger and faster and determined to become a better blocker and downfield threat in ’18. “We believed we were the best team in the state. That was tough, losing that final (23-14 to Lincoln-Way East). I like this year’s team, too, on both sides of the ball. We’re going to be balanced on offense with our run and passing games, and we return a lot of starters, especially at the skill positions. I’m excited about getting to be a leader for our receivers.”

One of LA’s receivers is a varsity rookie named Owen Boos, a sophomore and one of Rory’s brothers.

He stands 6-1 and weighs 150. Owen threw passes to Rory in the Boos’ back yard back in the day, when older brother/defensive back Patrick Boos (now a Marquette sophomore-to-be) covered Rory on the home turf in Glenview until it either got too dark or until the trio got summoned to appear, pronto, at the dinner table. Patrick, who no longer plays organized football, made the Ramblers’ varsity as a senior cor-

nerback in ’15, the year LA capped its 14-0 season with a 41-0 rout of Marist in the 8A state title game in DeKalb.

“Patrick taught me a lot; I considered him a mentor,” Rory says. “My little brother, I’m mentoring him now.

He has longer arms than I do. He’ll be good.”

Rory Boos did not start at a wideout slot in organized ball until his eight-grade season at Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Glenview. He’d been listed as a wideout/cornerback in the seventh grade.

The highlight of his grid years at OLPH? Easy. The 50-yard TD catch he made for the eighth-grade squad in the league title game, the play that helped OLPH capture a championship in ’14.

His hands got better, more reliable, in his freshman and sophomore seasons at LA. He has improved, each year, as a route-runner, perhaps the most underappreciated skill in a receiver’s cupboard of skills. Many consider Boos’ route-running ability his top asset. He’s interested in hitting the books and burning defensive backs at Villanova or at Lehigh or at Colgate.

But first things first. Boos has one more football season at Loyola Academy. Ramblers coaches conducted the program’s first official practice of ’18 on Aug. 6. Ah, the soundtrack of preseason football — coaches blowing whistles, pads clashing, players grunt-

ing — is blaring, is teasing rabid fans.

Can you hear it?

LA head football coach John Holecek, for one, can’t wait to watch Boos do what Boos does in games that count.

“Rory’s quickness, his body control, his mental aptitude … they all give him that edge,” Holecek, in his 13th season at LA, says. “Rory is that smart competitor, that player who’s as determined on the field as he is off the field. He fights for every play, and he’s a true leader, a leader by example.”

A scary-good player indeed, this young man named Boos.

Notable: Loyola Academy opens its football season at Rockford (Michigan) High School on Aug. 24 and visits New Trier in Northfield one week later for a rematch of a 2017 Class 8A playoff opener. LA edged visiting NT 35-32 en route to its third straight state championship game appearance last fall. … LA football coach John Holecek’s record in 12 seasons with the Ramblers: 135-27 (.833). Five of his teams reached a state championship game, with his ’15 club winning the second state title in program history; John Hoerster coached LA’s gridders to the program’s first, in 1993.

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SCREEN PLOT AUTHOR TOUTS UPSIDE OF DEVICES, REASSURES PARENTS Dreiske’s work with the ICMC is all about showing parents and teachers how to help their children “become self-aware when engaging these powerful technologies that are deliberately addictive,” she says. “A vast majority of games and apps are designed to deliver a squirt of dopamine to the brain to entice you to continue doing whatever it is you’re doing with that screen. Software developers admit they study brain science to create games that tick all the boxes for keeping you [attached to a device] for as long as possible.

Google ‘Fortnight’ and see what comes up.” (The World Health Organization recently added gaming addiction to its International Classification of Diseases).

The mission of the ICMC grew out of Dreiske’s work in developing the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival (CICFF), which was aimed at giving children access to inclusive, high-quality content and granting them a voice in processing what they saw on-screen.

“I had met the organizers of great European children’s film festivals and became mindful

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To parents who are concerned or confused or confounded by their children’s seemingly allencompassing relationships with their devices and screens, Nicole Dreiske has a message for you: “You have the skills to change this,” the author insists. “Trust yourself. Those skills are based on the positive ways you already speak with your children. You have positive parenting habits that are already in place.

“You’re just not extending them to screen time yet.”

A baby boomer who grew up in Winnetka and attended New Trier High School, Dreiske has devoted more than a decade to creating an educational program designed to walk parents and caregivers, teachers, counselors and pediatricians through the process of helping children use screen time constructively. Her recent book, The Upside of Digital Devices: How to Make Your Child More Screen Smart, Literate, and Emotionally Intelligent, is the outgrowth of a program she has presented in Chicago-area schools and around the world.

The Upside of Digital Devices is intended to fill “a conspicuous gap in our culture,” Dreiske says. “Go to any children’s bookstore or library, and you will find scores of books on first-time experiences: the first time you go to the zoo, take a train or go to the doctor’s office. There is not one book on the first time you pick up a device that is going to be the most powerful influence in your life moving forward.”

Dreiske is a Chicago arts icon. In 1975, at the age of 22, she co-founded Facets Multimedia, the storefront Fullerton Avenue cinema that shows world cinema and independent films you will not see anywhere else. In 1983 Facets launched the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival—the first competitive children’s film festival; in 2002 it was officially recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

In 2010 Dreiske created the International Children’s Media Center (ICMC), a non-profit dedicated to changing the way children view, use and engage media.

Dreiske grew up in an era when there were only two kinds of screens: the movie screen and the TV screen. She describes her past viewing as “stuck between westerns and Garfield Goose,” but it is a testament to her discerning taste that when she summons up a memory of her favorite cartoons, it is not, say, Huckleberry Hound or Heckle & Jeckle; it is the obscure Warner Bros. cartoon characters, the Goofy Gophers, who emulated characters from a turn-of-thecentury comic strip, Alphonse and Gaston (“After you, Alphonse”/”No, you first, my dear Gaston!”).

“The shows were so benign back in the day,” she recalls. “It was easy to let your children get up and watch Saturday morning cartoons for their whimsical eccentricities. None of us was spending 1,400 hours a year with these devices, and that’s what kids do today. But we can’t impose our expectations and experiences on kids today; they have their own for-

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of the fact that content produced for children was considered an important job in other countries. Here, it was relegated to a mative exlower tier. In creating the periences, and CICFF, we wanted to Nicole Dreiske we need to recognize the achieverespect that. By ment of brilliant filmthe same token, we need to engage them differ- makers worldwide and to make it possible for ently around screens. children of diverse backgrounds to see aspirational “It’s not possible in the 21st century,” Dreiske films with positive messages from their own cultures.” continues, “to hand your child a device and walk But the festival, she adds, was never about adults saying, I’m the expert, and you’re going to watch films away if you want a healthy family. “

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that are better than what you’ve watched anywhere else.

Instead, she instituted a jury that included adults and children. In awarding prizes, children’s voices were valued as highly as adults’. Dreiske saw the festival experience as a way to engage children as critical viewers, thinkers and artists.

In the early1990s she added a new layer to the festival.

“Instead of just having them sit, watch and vote, we talked to every single group of children that came to the festival—that’s 28,000 kids a year—about being aware of what they were watching on-screen and what was in their minds as they watched,” she recounts.

To get the ball rolling in developing her approaches, Dreiske turned to adults for input. For two years she asked parents, teachers and pediatricians a couple of key questions: What does a good relationship with screens look like to you? And, What do we want out of technology for our children? The goal, she says, was to create positive ways for engaging with screens.

At the top of parents’ wish lists, she reports, was hoping their kids would come to them to talk to about problematic content. Another wish: that their children would be able to determine when enough is enough and when they should turn off a device.

Dreiske consults with schools and districts on “healthy tech habits” and teaches an accelerated learning program (Screen Smart™) for early-childhood students.. In school workshops, Dreiske says, she “first primes children’s minds” and then guides them through a close analysis of a short video or app as if it were a storybook. In addition to drawing on literacy skills during screen time, she encourages children to talk about what the character was feeling and how they, as the viewer, felt about it.

“Children are really smart,” Dreiske says. “You can teach them emotional intelligence by asking them to be self-aware while using a screen. Plus, they get a brain boost from watching with intent because different parts of the brain are activated.”

Dreiske also addresses the need for a family tech agreement in her book. And, by the way, we adults are often in thrall to our own devices, Dreiske says.

“Parents need to be mindful of how they are using their phones, tablets and computers around their children if they want their children to have a positive relationship with technology,” she adds.

“It’s important for all of us to turn on our minds before turning on our screens.”

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WHY DID YOU MOVE TO LAKE FOREST?

I grew up in Chicago where my father, Jim Dooley, was a player & Head coach for the Chicago Bears. After college, I was working as a Navy Nurse when I met my husband, a Navy physician. We were transferred to Great Lakes in 1980 & while studying for his Medical Boards we both fell in love with the LF Library! We have loved living in Lake Forest for the past 38 years where we raised our 3 children & are now excited to watch our 2 grandchildren grow up here. Always loving homes, it was natural for me to go into real estate 17 years ago. I am passionate about selling homes in this fabulous community! Read more at LisaTrace.com

LISA DOOLEY TRACE, MBA

708-710-4104

OPEN SUNDAY! 2 - 4 PM

ltrace@gglrealty.com

OPEN SUNDAY! 1 - 3 PM

771 CHEROKEE ROAD, LAKE FOREST

650 NEWCASTLE DRIVE, LAKE FOREST

901 TISBURY LANE, LAKE FOREST

352 WISCONSIN AVENUE, LAKE FOREST

$610,000 | 771Cherokee.info

$1,245,000 • 650NewcastleDrive.info

$1,199,000 • 901Tisbury.info

$895,000 • 352Wisconsin.info

OPEN SUNDAY! 1 - 3 PM

VISIT GGLOPENS.COM FOR ALL OPEN HOUSES THIS WEEK!

YOUR LOCAL MARKET EXPERTS OPEN SUNDAY! 2 - 4 PM

OPEN SUNDAY! 1 - 3 PM

12325 BASIL ROAD, LAKE BLUFF $374,900 | 12325Basil.info

142 ATTERIDGE ROAD, LAKE FOREST

6339 LONGWOOD ROAD, LIBERTYVILLE

1166 HIGHLAND AVENUE, LAKE FOREST

$799,000 • 142Atteridge.info

$659,900 • 6339Longwood.info

$659,000 • 1166Highland.info

217 ASCOT COURT, LAKE BLUFF

105 LAUREL AVENUE #106, LAKE FOREST

119 LAUREL AVENUE #303, LAKE FOREST

$529,000 • 217Ascot.info

$489,000 • 105Laurel106.info

$325,000 • 119Laurel.info

NEW PRICE!

1559 MONTEREY COURT, GURNEE $229,000 | 1559Monterey.info

WWW.GGLREALTY.COM

LAKE FOREST: 847.234.0485 | LAKE BLUFF: 847.234.0816 280 E. Deerpath Road, Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 8 E. Scranton Avenue, Lake Bluff, Illinois 60044

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810 DEAN AVENUE, HIGHLAND PARK $1,399,999

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Source: MRED $1 million+ sales, Chicago and North Shore, 1-1-2017 to 12-31-2017.

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