Kids & family

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Illustration By Rick Sealock

Best place to teach your kid to be at one with him/herself

Yoga Loka studio off Lakeside Drive has prenatal yoga classes. It also has a Hot Mama-Buddha Baby class to practice with baby in tow.

Best place to watch what toddlers put in their mouths

Nobody wants their children to smoke. Smoking causes all kinds of lung problems, from emphysema to cancer to asthma. There is no sight more disconcerting for a parent than to see your fresh-faced progeny walking around with a coffin nail hanging off his or her lower lip. Well, if you are at the Virginia Lake dog park and you see little Timmy chomping something that looks a big old Cuban stogie, you’re too late. You might as well take up smoking yourself.