Toledo Parent

09/02/2025

Raising kids in the digital age just got easier!

Buckeye Broadband has partnered with Bark to help keep your kids safe online by offering Bark Jr for free to all Internet subscribers.

Learn more about Bark, the only all-in-one online safety solution here: www.buckeyebroadband.com/safer

09/02/2025

Learn outside the traditional classroom walls with our Low Cost Learning roundup of local resources offering educational experiences for cheap!

Get the full list here: https://toledoparent.com/main/low-cost-learning-for-toledo-kids/

🍎 The Toledo Museum of Art 🍎 Keep Toledo/Lucas County Beautiful, Inc. 🍎 The Toledo Zoo

09/02/2025

📰 Our September/October issue is now on stands! 📰

🍎 Forte Music School - Toledo has expanded with more classrooms in Toledo & a NEW Perrysburg location!
🍎 Check out new resources like our Education Guide
🍎 A roundup of Halloween Haunts & Happenings & more!

Read the digital issue here: https://toledoparent.com/digital-issue/digitial-issue-september-october-2025/

09/01/2025

Dr. Andrea Ali-Panzarella is focusing on representation in reading for all families.

Her family's story with IVF & a gestational carrier inspired her to write a book to help plant seeds of understanding and acceptance in the next generation. Because family is not just about biology. It’s about love, intention, and the infinite ways hearts can be woven together.

My journey began one year after my husband and I got married and decided to start our family. My first pregnancy ended in a miscarriage at 8 weeks. I never thought about the possibility of facing infertility until a series of tests led us down the path to in vitro fertilization (IVF). We experienced...

08/29/2025

🎪 Don't miss the Mothers' Center of Greater Toledo's Pop in and Play Carnival and Open House on Saturday, September 6th! 🎪

The FREE family event is at the Sylvania United Church of Christ from 10am-12pm and will have giveaways, games and family fun!

No pressure, no cost - just pop in, play, and see if they’re the right fit for your family!

08/28/2025

🌳 Northwest Ohio boasts a growing number of natural playgrounds. 🌳

From rope courses, bridges to treehouses, check out our full list of Natural Playgrounds in The Toledo Area: https://toledoparent.com/main/natural-playgrounds-roundup/

08/28/2025

⛵ LAST CHANCE to check out the FREE Captain Scupper’s Kids Club at the National Museum of the Great Lakes! ⛵

Build your own Lego vessels every Saturday morning in August!

This summer, Capt. Scupper’s Kid’s Club is hosting engaging, hands-on events for kids in July and Aug. Both events are free for NMGL and Museums for All members. Otherwise, it is included with Museum admission. No registration required. Recycled Regatta Every Saturday in July, from 11am-2pm, kid...

08/28/2025

Weekend Event Roundup! Check out our calendar for a full list of local events: https://toledoparent.com/calendar/

💦 Splash with Super Heroes during Goldfish Swim School - Sylvania's open swim and meet Spider-Man & Spider-Gwen afterwards!

🙌 Hit the family-friendly events at the Village on Adams' 10th Annual Adams Street Block Party from 2:00pm until 8:00pm.

🎉 Bring your skates and scooters to the Mothers' Center of Greater Toledo's End of Summer Party at The Ribbon on Sunday!

💃 Listen to live music, hop around in bounce houses, and eat from local food trucks at El Corazon de Mexico Ballet Folklorico's Grito Fest this Sunday!

08/27/2025

New Kids on The Block!

Bowling Green City Schools, Ohio broke ground on a new, 155,000-square-foot, three-story high school this spring, scheduled to be completed in Fall 2027.

Build sandcastles at new indoor sandbox Opening this fall, The Sandbox for Kids, will open for a unique play experience. At this 1,000 square foot indoor sandbox, children are encouraged to have fun and be creative playing with tools and trucks in the sand. In the fall, their private party rooms wil...

08/27/2025

The B.I.G. (Believe in Girls) Expo is back for 2025!

🙌 This free family event features 50+ activity stations, from archery and art to robotics, coding, dance—and so much more! 🙌

Bring your family and friends along for an exciting day of fun and adventure, Girl Scouts of Western Ohio style!

Learn more and see what you can do on Saturday, September 27, from 10am–2 pm at Toledo’s Glass City Center: https://www.gswo.org/bigexpo

08/27/2025

🥋 Amanda Kaufman is a fifth-degree black belt and the founder of Advancing Karate, Ltd. - Martial Arts & Self-Defense in Maumee. 🥋

Kaufman is helping others — especially women and children — find their own sense of strength, discipline and self-worth.

At just five years old, Amanda Kaufman stepped onto the dojo floor for the first time, a shy, petite girl in search of confidence. More than three decades later, she’s now a fifth-degree black belt and the founder of Advancing Karate, a growing martial arts studio in Maumee, where she’s helping ...

08/26/2025

🦷 Sheila Phelan, DDS., MS. balances a thriving Orthodontic practice with the demands of motherhood. 🦷

Now pregnant with her second child while raising her three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, she continues to redefine what it means to be a working mom in healthcare.

Dr. Sheila Phelan doesn’t just adjust braces — she reshapes expectations. As the owner of Phelan Orthodontics, with locations in Perrysburg and Oregon, she balances a thriving practice with the demands of motherhood. Now pregnant with her second child while raising her three-and-a-half-year-old ...