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Making fitness fun for your child helps boost confidence Tips for helping your preschool child prepare for school

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Dark Sunglasses do more harm than help Open house for new Lake Washington High School set for August 16th

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...TODAY’S parent Dark sunglasses do more harm than help Open house for new LWHS set for Aug. 16 Redmond Eye Doctors, at 16375 N.E. 85th St. Suite 102, will be holding a sunglasses sale, Aug. 8-26. The sunglasses are specially designed to help kids and adults protect their eyes from harmful sun rays.

Plain dark lenses do not protect your eyes, according to Dr. Rania Montecillo.

In fact, she said, the darker they are the more damage they can do since your

pupils dilate (get bigger) with darkness, hence letting in more of those damaging UV rays from the sun.

Kids naturally have larger pupils so be sure to protect their precious eyes, said Montecillo, adding that most sun damage occurs before the age of 18. The damage these UV rays cause includes cataracts, light sensitivity, macular

degeneration, ptyrigiums (little yellow spots on the whites of your eyes) and skin cancer on your eyelids and surrounding skin.

For more information, visit www.redmondeye doctors.com or call (425) 885-7363.

Lake Washington High School at 12033 N.E. 80th St. in Kirkland will hold an open house and barbecue on Aug. 16 from 4 to 7 p.m. This event is an opportunity for the community to see the newly constructed high school, which also houses Northstar Junior High. Students will lead visitors on a tour of the new school, which will highlight the academic houses, performing arts

center and library among other spaces. The modernization of Lake Washington was funded through a 2006 bond measure.

Features of the new school include four academic houses, which are sets of classrooms for teams of teachers who will work with students through their entire high school career. Visitors are asked to use the temporary entrance off Northeast 75th Street.

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Making fitness fun for your child helps boost confidence F ocusing your child’s physical fitness on fun activities will increase your child’s ability to move with confidence and competence.

Exercise increases overall metabolism, builds

explore activities that allow for reaching, rolling, sitting, crawling, pulling themselves up and walking.

“Tummy Time” is the perfect opportunity for babies to practice lifting their heads and develop strong muscles. Placing toys just out of reach encourages babies to reach for the toys, assisting in physical development.

a healthy heart and lungs, strong bones and muscles, and improves coordination, balance, posture and flexibility.

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Play with them as they learn to run, hop, dance and throw. Have them chase bubbles or invent a silly walk - play becomes exercise. Remember to always provide encouragement to toddlers as they build self-confidence.

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Preschoolers need plenty of time and space to run around and play. Taking your child to a playground or park is a great way to release energy and exercise.

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Support young toddlers’ mastery of walking by allowing them to be active!

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ing and riding scooters and tricycles. Play “Statues” by playing up-tempo music.

Have your child move while the music is playing and freeze into a statue when you pause it. Play outside with your child and teach hand-eye coordination by showing the basics of throwing, catching and kicking a large, soft ball.

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Beginning Aug. 12, the Youth Theatre Northwest (YTN) in Mercer Island will feature Redmond resident Olivia Ochoa in its production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.”

The show will be run through Aug. 28 with performances on Fridays and Saturdays at 7 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m. and Wednesdays and Thursdays at 2 p.m. Tickets range from $13 to $17.

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• Be reliable. Let your child know if you will be late picking him/her up. Never say you’ll be right back if you won’t.

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Be reliable. Let your tritious breakfast • Aim to arrive for your child. child know if you will at school on time.

• Leave enough be late picking him/her Coming into the time for your classroom late up. Never say you’ll be and missing the child to dress him/herself. right back if you won’t. initial socialization • Let the ride makes it difficult to school be child for your child centered. Turn off the radio news; to settle as well as being disrupavoid talking on the phone; sing tive for the other children in the songs and don’t worry about voice room. quality; talk about what you see • Let the teacher know if your on the way. Count red cars, count child may be reacting to an un-

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schedules. Try to make meal times and bedtime the same every day.

• Make sure your child has enough sleep, try to make a calm and happy ritual of going to bed and getting up in the morning and keep bedtimes consistent. The recommended amounts per 24 hours are 11 to 13 hours for 3 to 5 year olds and 10 to 11 hours for 5 to 12 year olds.

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• Find out all you can about your chosen school and the philosophy behind it to help you understand how the needs of your child are being met.

• Attend all school parent education meetings.

• Try to arrange for both parents to attend parentteacher conferences. Make a list of questions and points you wish to discuss with your child’s teacher.

• Children thrive on predictable