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And if you can tell the difference, you can save significant time and money while still receiving high-quality care.” Classifieds [P.29] RESOURCES: Schools / Montessori Birthday / Parties How to Oversee Your Child’s Studies Without Going Too Far “When it comes down to it, our problem as parents is this: It’s incredibly tempting to check online or in your kid’s backpack to see what’s due.” Apps for New Parents P.38 Turkey Trots P.28 [P.31-37] [P.38] P.22-24 GUIDES: Ann Dolin 4  November 2017  washingtonFAMILY.com [P.06] P.18-19 Dr. Subir Jossan & Dr. Steven Neufeldy QUICK READS FAMILY Blog QUICK READs Baby Guide [P. 25-27] Open House [P.30-34] Specialized Learning Spring Break &  Holiday Camps [P.20] [P.14-16] Celebrate the holidays at Mount Vernon Mount Vernon by Candlelight Meet people from Washington’s world with a candlelit character-guided tour of the Mansion, and join in the fun of 18th-century dancing and fi reside refreshments and caroling. November 24, 25, December 1, 2, 8, 9, 17; 5-8 p.m. Christmas Illuminations Celebrate the season with dazzling holiday fi reworks, music, 18th-century dancing, and a winter military encampment, plus appearances by George and Martha Washington. December 15 & 16, 5:30-9:30 p.m. Christmas at Mount Vernon Join us during the day for music, crafts, and other festive fun and meet Aladdin the Camel! November 24-January 6 mountvernon.org Open daily, including Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. West Springfield Dental Arts formerly Northern Virginia Dental Associates Mark A. Winkler, D.D.S. Neil H. Charaipotra, D.D.S. Judith R. Coulter, D.M.D. Erol J. Kanli, D.D.S. 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Back to School Offer Only $69 child cleaning, oral exam and bitewing xrays ages 18 and under not valid for insured patients Serving Our Local Community Since 1963 washingtonFAMILY.com  November 2017  5 FAMILY blog How to Be a Vegetarian During the Turkey Holidays “W hen I was fourteen, I bravely walked up to my parents and declared that I was becoming a vegetarian. As most parents would, they smiled and replied, “Sure sweetie, whatever you say.” Thus started the very long and tedious transition to vegetarianism. Whoever says becoming a vegetarian is easy; they’re lying. Especially when you’re younger and doing it all on your own. I wrestled with food for months before figuring out the right vegetarian diet. Even now, ten years later; I’m still learning. When it comes to the holidays, lavish family dinners can be a bit tricky for vegetarians. Through trial and error, I have learned what works and what doesn’t. Over the years, I have discovered some great Thanksgiving meat alternatives, such as vegetarian gravy. My favorite is Simply Organic Vegetarian Brown Gravy, which is 100% vegetarian-friendly and can be found in your local grocery store! This is the perfect boost of flavor to add for the mashed potatoes and all of the other fixings. My Mom makes roasted garlic mashed potatoes that are heavenly. She also adds extra marshmallows to the sweet pota- toes. No turkey means you can double the potatoes! My Dad becomes my superhero because he makes his famous stuffing just for me! Another dish that I can’t help but to overeat is my Mom’s green bean casserole. Besides the sweet potatoes, it’s the only My typical Thanksgiving dinner plate usually contains green bean casserole, meat-free stuffing, sweet potatoes with extra marshmallows and tons of mashed potatoes with vegetarian gravy! colorful food on my plate. Even though I don’t eat I have two main jobs on Thanksgiving Day: The ap- petizer and the dessert. Cheese is my favorite food and almost none of the traditional Thanksgiving recipes include cheese as one of the ingredients. I pick out a couple different types of cheeses, jams, crackers and grapes and lay it out on a very nice spread that everyone snacks on throughout the day while we cook. It’s the perfect combination to keep you fueled without filling you up. version of Thanksgiving. It’s the time spent with For dessert, my family loves to indulge in apple pie, and making it from scratch together makes us love it even more. Homemade apple pie is actually easier to make than it sounds. Plus, the smell of fresh apple pie baking in the oven will make you want to save some room for dessert. 6  November 2017  washingtonFAMILY.com turkey for Thanksgiving, there are a lot of great alternatives. So yes, my plates are filled with carbs; but it’s my loved ones cooking, baking and enjoying it all to- gether that makes Thanksgiving so special; not just what you eat. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! 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The bar should also be both bitter and sweet, but not too sweet that the whole bar is eaten in one sitting. This complexity of chocolate has always fascinated Sarah Hartman. A foodie by nature, she knew she wanted to work in the food industry. While living in her home country of Brazil in 2010, she quit her job in human resources and attended culinary school to pursue her dream. While in school, she worked in several restaurant kitchens, but soon learned she “hated restaurants, but loved food.” She quit culinary school and began to research different gourmet and artisanal foods like cheese, wine and beer. the mother of a toddler. They specialize in five “base chocolates,” known as the Rainforest “But nothing caught my attention Collection—one “adult” milk quite like chocolate did,” said Hartman, a lifelong chocolate fanatic. “Even in culinary school, I wanted to be doing something with chocolate.” Tucked into a far corner of Northwest Washington near Maryland, is D.C.’s very own chocolate factory, Harper Macaw, started by Hartman and her husband. You won’t find orange-tinted chocolate, three single-farm chocolate bars and a chocolate bar blended with beans of multiple farms. “Blends make more enjoyable chocolates because it brings together what’s the best from all these different The percentages marked on the bars’ wrappers indicate how much cocoa is within. The higher the percentage, the more cocoa is included and the more intense the flavor, “but it should not dictate how bitter or non-bitter that chocolate is.” (Think dark chocolate.) In 2011, Hartman and her husband moved to the United States. Still immersed in the chocolate industry, she kept reading and researching. By cocoas. It doesn’t highlight one flavor talking to different producers and over another,” she said. continually reading, she wanted to discover what her niche would be. men or foil-wrapped bars loaded with Then they also have specialty bars: sugar. But in the converted newspaper There’s a mocha bar made with “There isn’t a school that you go to distribution center, you will find a Compass Coffee, and a bourbon- where you come out and you’re a small showroom, an assembly line, barrel-aged chocolate bar, where the chocolate maker. You kind of have to kitchen space and artisanal chocolates. cocoa beans are aged in a barrel from figure it out yourself,” she said. Harper Macaw is a chocolate factory, D.C.’s One Eight Distilling. The factory opened in December 2015. versus a chocolatier. The factory takes Hartman is not afraid of playing cocoa beans and transforms them Hartman found her niche: She makes with non-traditional flavors. During it a point to only source her cocoa the 2016 presidential campaign, she from three Brazilian farms, “because created a line of bars known as the many of the craft chocolate makers Political Collection. The tea party bar in the U.S. were not using Brazilian into chocolate—whereas a chocolatier creates confections with pre-made chocolate. “When I learned more about was infused with Earl Grey Tea. Red the production of it, I was really State was infused with raspberries and fascinated,” Harper said, who is also strawberries. beans.” harper macaw | Page 12 washingtonFAMILY.com  November2017  11 harper macaw | from Page 11 Two farms are located near the Atlantic Ocean while the third is located in the Amazon rainforest. The climate of these regions—the salty sea air, the proximity to the equator, elevation and soil profiles—deeply impacts the cocoa. And she knows those farmers through connections. It’s a close- knit community and building those relationships is tough, she admitted. “You don’t take a trip, land there and visit a farm,” Hartman said. Her and her husband had to visit several different farms and cultivate relationships before deciding on their providers. Conversation and the environment are incredibly important to Hartman. Five percent of each of the bars sold goes to a conservation project that aids to reforest deforested areas in Brazil. “On average, each of our bars helps reforest 20 square feet of rainforest. Cocoa comes from the rainforest. The best cocoa comes from farms that mimic the rainforest. We’re making sure the rainforests around our farms are very healthy so that we have a very secure supply chain of cocoa.” Everything from bean cleaning to bar that steak. Same thing here.” my phone answering emails,” she said. production is done at the factory. Once A goal for Hartman is to become “More than anything, this is what the beans are cleaned from debris, they’re roasted in a process similar to known as D.C.’s chocolate. She would love to see her bars sold in area I want my son to grow up with: Us working hard and showing him that shops and work with local chefs and he can build or work for something, times depend on the recipe, but it others in the hospitality industry to and be proud of that.” could be between 45 to 120 minutes, use Harper Macaw chocolate in their and no higher than 300-degrees recipes. Hartman continues, “It can be coffee, but longer and slower. Roasting Fahrenheit. very easy to think that you know The factory is like a second child to everything when you own a business It’s during the roast where the flavors Hartman, who gave birth to a son in of the cocoa beans are developed and that you know everything, that you’re 2016. Having her baby, she said, has chemically altered. really taught her to focus. She works going to get it right, and that you “Imagine a piece of raw steak you hard to not mix the roles of mother put on the grill,” Hartman explained. “You’re developing the reactions in 12  November2017  washingtonFAMILY.com and business owner. “I don’t want to be with him and on don’t have a lot to learn. But, everyday I realize I have a lot more to learn. It’s taught me that improvement is continuous.” Healthy Smile... Healthy Child pediatric dental care John Han, DDS Pediatric Dentist Fernanda Fontes, DDS Pediatric Dentist Jenny Ha, DDS Pediatric Dentist Harold Fleming, DDS Orthodontist Buy 1 adventure, Get 1 free. 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And up to 20 percent 18  November 2017  washingtonFAMILY.com of those visits are for minor conditions – such as a sprain or bronchitis – that could be treated in an urgent care clinic or a physician’s office. Caring for these patients outside of the emergency room could save as much as $4 billion a year. More importantly, knowing which level of care is appropriate could save you hours of time and a significant amount of money. For patients in Northern Virginia, the average emergency room visit costs $1,124, according to Virginia Health Information, and lasts over four hours. In comparison, patients pay $150 on average for an urgent care visit and typically wait just 15 minutes for prompt medical attention. can be treated in the urgent care setting or the next day by your orthopaedic provider. Most fractures, even in children, don’t need to be treated in the ER unless there is a deformity in the affected limb, or an associated wound on the skin. 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All this means in practice is that when you know there’s an assignment coming up, sit down with them and ask, “What are the steps you’re going to need to do to complete this?” But what happens when they get But in an attempt to “help” stuck, and aren’t able (or willing) we often go too far. We end to figure it out on their own? up enabling our children by constantly checking to see what Whether that’s on their first algebra assignment, or a lingering book report where the due date has come and gone, sometimes it’s really hard to know when to step in and how to direct them without homework is due, and helping them get it done on time, even though this task should be their job. So, what should parents do? Here are six recommendations: helping too much. Instead of fully leaving it to them to work it out, open up a dialogue and try to let them come up with the steps. Then, when they get stuck, assist along the way. As they get the hang of it, you can help less and less over time. But don’t be afraid to help the process along when they’re young. The question shouldn’t be, “Should parents help with homework?” When it comes down to it, our incredibly tempting to check 1. A certain amount of involvement is appropriate for elementary- school students online or in your kid’s backpack to Kids who are elementary school see what’s due. Or it’s natural to age haven’t fully developed their jump in to help with homework at executive functioning skills, and so the first sign of struggle, especially aren’t quite ready to go at it alone if our children aren’t forthcoming when it comes to planning and about their workload or issues working through long assignments they’re having in class. independently. problem as parents is this: It’s but rather, “How much should we help?” at this stage. 2. If your kids are in middle or high school, resist the impulse to help I recently spoke to one Fairfax, VA mom who was looking for a tutor. studies | Page 24 washingtonFAMILY.com  November 2017  23 Time management skills: Which you have that uneasy feeling that will help them get started on their work has gone undone. Ask your She was in quite a quandary. She work, stay focused and understand was making it a regular practice to how long things actually take to child to log onto the portal with tap into her freshman son’s school finish. studies | from page 23 portal each day and print out his assignments so they would be ready for him when he came home from school. When asked why she did this, she responded, “If I didn’t, he would never do them.” One of the most important gifts a parent can give to their child is the ability to navigate life, including schoolwork, independently. Middle school is definitely the time to start. And in high school; it’s a must. if you don’t set the stage for them to do these school preparations and tasks on their own. So again, work with them to get the process started, but then adopt a “hands- off” philosophy so that they have the chance to work through it themselves. own. And study skills: Which help them make better use of the time they do dedicate to homework and 6. Work on communication rather studying. than the schoolwork itself As the old allegory says: “Give The question remains, “What a man a fish, and you feed him do you do if the work still goes for a day. Teach a man to fish, undone without your support?” and you feed him for a lifetime.” The answer is complicated because And that couldn’t be more true when it comes to studying and doing homework, so it’s worth the investment. They’ll never have the opportunity to develop the skills they’ll need you there; do not do it on your 4. Give them a choice the obstacle is typically deeper than missing assignments. So often, there’s a problem with communication. Schedule a time to sit down with your child and discuss the issue Expect that your student has without nagging or judging him. a system in place to track When kids feel as if their parents assignments, projects and dates of listen to them, they are more quizzes and tests. It should be up likely to listen to their parents. I to the student to determine which recommend a fantastic book and system works best for him or her, so give them a choice on how they want to accomplish this. one that changed the way I deal with the students I teach and my own children. It’s called, “How to Some students find apps that run Talk So Kids Will Listen and How on smartphones or tablets are ideal to Listen So Kids Will Talk” by Once your kids start working for this application, where they are Adele Faber. Check it out. It’s an through their homework permitted. Others, although very few these days, prefer the old- easy read and so worth it. independently, inevitably you’ll run across some issues with fashioned assignment notebook. 3. Give them the tools key and will help you navigate staying organized, getting their work done on time and studying sticky situations when it comes to ahead of time for tests. 5. Trust, but verify So it’s not usually enough to Trust that your child has just set them loose on their work completed his daily assignments without helping them develop the and planned out those that are skills they’ll need to make their long-term, but be wise enough to way through it. These include: verify. This means that you may Organizational skills: This helps kids feel more in control of their In the end, communication is want to cross-reference what he says he has for homework against helping with schoolwork. Ann Dolin is the founder and president of Educational Connections Tutoring, serving Northern VA, D.C., and MD. 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Grades: PreK-Grade 3 Open House: 2017: Nov. 12, 1 p.m. Georgetown Day School gds.org/campsandclasses; campsandclasses@gds.org 202-274-1683 4530 MacArthur Blvd., NW, Washington, D.C. Open House: Call to schedule a tour. Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nations Capital jpds.org; sindy.udell@jpds.org 202-291-5737 ext. 2207 6045 16th St., NW (North Campus), Washington, D.C. 4715 16th St., NW (South Campus), Washington, D.C. Ages: 4-12 (Middle School opening Fall 2018) Hours of Operation: 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Open House: 2017: Nov. 15, 7 p.m.; Dec. 8, 9 a.m. 2018: Jan. 5, 9 a.m. St. Columba's Nursery School columba.org; school@columba.org 202-742-1980 4201 Albemarle St., NW, Washington, D.C. Grades: Nursery-PreK Open House: 2017: Nov. 14, Dec. 7 2018: Jan. 10, Jan. 25, Feb. 7, Feb. 22 30 November 2017 washingtonFAMILY.com Maryland Acorn Hill: A Waldorf Kindergarten and Nursery acornhill.org 301-565-2282 9504 Brunett Ave., Silver Spring, MD Open House: 2017: Nov. 2, Dec. 7, 9:15-9:45 a.m. 2018: Jan. 11, Feb. 1, Mar. 1, Apr. 5, 9:15-9:45 a.m. The Auburn School theauburnschool.org; info@theauburnschool.org 410-321-4799 1710 Dulaney Valley Rd., Lutherville, MD 301-588-8048 9545 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, MD Grades K-Grade 8 Open House: Call to schedule a tour. 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Spring Bilingual Montessori academy BeanTree Westfields Campus spring-bilingual.org; info@spring-bilingual.org 301-962-7262 3514 Plyers Mill Rd., Kensington, MD Ages: 2-6 Open House: 2017: Nov. 11, 10 a.m.-Noon 2018: Jan. 6, 10 a.m.-Noon Virginia beantreelearning.com 703-961-8222 5003 Westfields Blvd., Chantilly, VA Grades: Infant-K Open House: Call to schedule a tour. CONTINUED ON PG. 32 washingtonFAMILY.com November 2017 31 open house dates Brooksfield brooksfieldschool.org; brksfield@aol.com 703-356-KIDS 1830 Kirby Rd., McLean, VA Ages: 2-6 Open House: Call to schedule a tour. 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Leport montessori reston leport.com/nova; reston@leportschools.com 703-810-7811 11579 Cedar Chase Rd., Herndon, VA Grades: Toddler-K Montessori School of Cedar Lane Montessori School of Mclean mcleanmontessori.org 703-790-1049 1711 Kirby Rd., Mclean, VA Ages: 2 ½-12 Open House: Call to schedule a tour. montessori school of northern virginia msnv.org; info@msnv.org 703-256-9577 6820 Pacific Ln., Annandale, VA CONTINUED ON PG. 34 washingtonFAMILY.com November 2017 33 open house dates Ages: 2-12 Open House: Private tours from November through January. 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