Indoor Places to Play in Tampa Bay By Brie Gorecki While summer is the ideal time to spend a day building sandcastles at the beach or splashing around at a local water park, it’s not always ideal to be outdoors. If you’re not near the water, that midday summer sun can get HOT! And let’s not forget about those summer storms that can crash your afternoon pool party. Fortunately, there are tons of places around Tampa where you can spend a fun-filled day no matter what Mother Nature has in store. We’ve rounded up our over 30 great indoor places to play in Tampa Bay! Indoor Playgrounds and Trampoli ..read more

Ten Million Reasons to Love Kat Stickler By Maggie Rodriguez How Tampa mom, Kat Stickler, became one of TikTok’s most popular influencers Kat Stickler’s 3-year-old daughter has a toy phone that she talks to when she’s having breakfast or making a snack. “She sees me doing it,” Stickler explains, “so she does it, too.” The 28-year-old single mom is a TikTok star with nearly 10 million followers. It’s a career she never envisioned. After growing up in South Tampa and attending Gorrie Elementary, Wilson Middle School and Plant High School, Stickler returned home after college and worked as a rese ..read more

Early Start to Learning By Anu Varma Panchal You may think that kindergarten is the perfect time to launch your child’s educational journey, but research shows that a large part of a child’s intellectual development takes place much earlier. Lindsay Carson, Chief Executive Officer of the Early Learning Coalition of Pinellas County, shares details about optimal start times for learning, and how every parent can find the right Early Learning Center (ELC) for their budget. How early do children begin to learn? Children begin learning from the moment they are born and even before that. In fact, re ..read more