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A Holistic Approach to Dentistry

For over 30 years, Assure A Smile has been the leading dental care provider to all of South Florida. Our holistic dentistry is led by Dr. Ted Herrmann and based in Miami, Florida. Assure A Smile’s mission is to ensure healthy teeth and gums for life!

Schedule your appointment today and ask about our New Patient Special.

Assure A Smile is located at

9220 SW 72nd Street, Suite 205 Miami, FL 33173 Tel: 305.274.0047

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Now Offering Telehealth Parenting Groups for Families with Young Children

Families First offers FREE parenting groups for parents of children ages birth through 3 years throughout Miami-Dade County in both English and Spanish.

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Funded by The Children’s Trust, our program enables you to learn more about child development and positive discipline from experts at the University of Miami.

BABY & ME

For parents and babies birth to 6 months. Classes meet once a week for 10 weeks

DISCUSS & LEARN WAYS TO:

• Understand your baby’s language • Help your baby grow and develop

Take home FREE baby items! Meet other parents!

For parents of children 1-3 years Classes meet once a week for 12 weeks

DISCUSS & LEARN WAYS TO:

• Build a positive relationship with your child • Promote your child’s social-emotional development • Use positive discipline to set limits effectively • Manage separations and reunions

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FOLLOW US /umfamiliesfirst To register, please call 305.243.8425 or e-mail us at FamiliesFirst@miami.edu

Yes, it’s that time of year again! 'Tis the season for gift-giving, stockingstuffing, and endless holiday lights that twinkle at home and around town. While traditional lights are a joy to look at, this season bring those lights to life!

Introducing Holiday Specs 3D Glasses! Utilizing our patented holographic lenses, these unique 3D glasses offer the holiday season’s WOW factor as they magically transform ordinary Christmas lights, city lights, or any bright point of light into dazzling holiday images including snowflakes, reindeer, Santa, candycanes, elves, ornaments, gingerbread men, snowmen, angels and Christmas stars. But that’s not all we have to offer. After such amazing feedback over the last 15 years, we are so excited to now be offering 4 seasonal plastic glasses as well as an ornament line called “EyePop”! Our durable plastic glasses and 3D ornament line come with beautiful graphics and are perfect for Christmas parties and even better as stocking stuffers!

With over 15,000,000 glasses sold in stores such as Home Depot, Hobby Lobby, Lowe’s, Cracker Barrel, Kirkland’s and hundreds of other establishments all over the world, Holiday Specs are quickly becoming this season's musthave holiday item. These brightly-printed and inexpensive 3D Christmas glasses are perfect to give as gifts, stocking stuffers, and party favors for kids and adults alike. With quick and easy ordering any selection of our Holiday Specs ship fast and safely right to your door—no need to struggle through packed stores to find the perfect gift (especially with everything that has happened in 2020).

As the world’s leading manufacturer and marketer of 3D glasses and other 3D products, American Paper Optics continues to innovate and create in this ever-growing 3D market. Having manufactured close to THREE BILLION 3D glasses in our 30-year history, we are committed to pushing 3D technology to bring new and exciting products to our loyal customers.

Now it’s time to go ahead and see for yourself! Plug in the lights, put on any of our Christmas glasses and join our Holiday Specs movement as we get set to take the Christmas retail industry into the next dimension. Literally. Paper or plastic, the choice is yours and the pleasure is ours! k

For more information about Holiday Specs, customers can go to www.holidayspecs.com

SUNDAY, JANUARY 10 • 10 AM - 3 PM

16701 SW 72nd Ave., Miami, FL 33157 www.deeringestate.org

A NEW SPECIAL EXHIBITION PRESENTED BY

NATURE’S SUPERHEROES: LIFE AT THE LIMITS IS ORGANIZED BY THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, NEW YORK (AMNH.ORG).

A HOLIDAY CELEBRATION WITH ONE MILLION LIGHTS NOV 27 - DEC 27 SELECT NIGHTS 6:30-10PM

Tickets ONLINE ONLY at ZooMiami.org

7 Questions to Ask Your Child at the End of the Year

Written by: Samantha Bailie

Even though 2020 has been hard take time to reminisce about the fond memories your family has made in the past 12 months. B eing on lockdown was difficult for all of us for different reasons. For me, it was best to find all the good that happened in 2020, but also take a few moments 3. What’s the hardest thing you did this year? hard because I was pregnant for all of it. to process the not-so-good things, too. And I was chasing around an 18-month Here are 7 end-of-year questions for kids. Some end-of-year questions for kids old! It was easily the most exhausting are hard to answer. This might be one. time of my life. We didn’t get to celebrate 1. Which place was fun to visit Have your child tell you about the most our pregnancy the way we would have this year? difficult thing he or she did this year. liked. My husband couldn’t accompany You can even take this opportunity to me to my appointments, and he missed Out of all the places your family went talk about how the “hard stuff” leads to out on several ultrasounds. Even our this year—a vacation, a trip to visit family, “good stuff” like overcoming fears and hospital experience was strange. But or a quick stop to grab ice cream—which taking on responsibility. despite all the weirdness, God gave us trip does your child have fond memories a baby! The sweetest, healthiest little of? Are there any places he or she wants 4. What’s the first memory about this boy we could have asked for. to visit again in the future? year that pops into your head?

I know my family isn’t the only one who experienced hardship this year. To put it plainly, 2020 was just hard. With all the craziness happening in the world, it’s tempting to dismiss it and move on. But we should take time to sit with our kids and discuss this past year. Try your

2. Who did you become better friends with this year?

Talk with your children about their friends. Is there an old friend they’ve grown closer to? Or maybe they’ve enjoyed a new friendship this past year. This is a fun one! Find out which memory your child remembers the most from this past year. Even though 2020 has been hard, take time to reminisce about the fond memories your family has made in the past 12 months.