The Tri-Cities consists of three neighboring cities in the southeastern portion of Washington. In 2010, these cities, Richland, Kennewick and Pasco, were named by Kiplinger as one of the top 10 places to raise a family.

Courage is a trait your child will need for her whole life to face challenges and obstacles that get in her way of achieving her goals. Emphasizing courage to your child when she is quite young can help her child grow up with a strong sense of courage and belief in herself.

Understanding healthy boundaries can help teenagers make good choices in their relationships and help protect youth against negative peer pressure.

About one-third of the food we eat is actually pollinated by honeybees, according to Oklahoma State University. This includes fruit like strawberries and tomatoes. Preschool and elementary students are old enough to understand the process of pollination.

If ice-skating is the latest sporting interest in your household, plenty of history, technical terms, world records and sporting facts can entertain your budding skater when she's not on the ice.

The sharpness of your skates can affect both speed and agility, so you'll need properly sharpened skates for top performance on the ice. You can manually sharpen your skates with the right tools, but doing a good job requires a precise level of skill and technique.

Spacers, often referred to as bearing spacers, are sometimes installed in skateboard bearing setups to increase the life and performance of your bearings. A spacer's primary purpose is to stabilize the bearing, reducing excess movement on sharp turns and curves.

Roller skating is a fun, fast activity, and you can move forward, backward and even pair up with a partner once you have enough experience. Learning to roller-skate can be a daunting challenge; you are going to fall before ultimately gaining firm footing.

As much as you love your kid, filling the days with fun activities when you stay home can sometimes be a challenge. Fortunately, 3-year-olds make good companions who are generally up for anything, at least in small doses.

Longboarding is the sport of riding a longboard, a skateboard variant related to a surfboard or snowboard. Longboard skaters use their boards for cruising, racing, transportation and stunts. Some skaters would say it is addictive.

No matter how clean you keep your kitchen, pests cans still cause problems in your pantry. They enter your home in a variety of ways and seek out improperly stored foods to lay eggs in. The eggs hatch into larva that look like worms, and they can spoil your food as they grow into full-fledged insects.

Rowing is a demanding sport that requires substantial upper body strength. Because it also requires repetitive hand movements while gripping the oars, it can wreak havoc on the hands. Blisters and cracked, bleeding skin are common, especially among novices and after a return to the sport.