Clarksville Family Magazine — June 2012
The June 2012 Clarksville Family Magazine celebrates motherhood, music and miracles, honors dads, and guards against tick-borne illness.
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The cover feature, “Motherhood, Music and Miracles,” wove together family, melody and the unexpected blessings of life — an uplifting local story of the kind the magazine loved to tell, with a profile of Lydia Walker adding another personal thread.
“Being Daddy for a Day” offered a warm Father's Day feature on the everyday heroism of fatherhood, celebrating the dads at the center of so many households. “What More Could One Want of a Summer's Day?” captured the simple joys of the season, while “Preventing Tick-Borne Illnesses” delivered timely, practical guidance for families spending time outdoors in the Tennessee summer, and “It's Never Too Early” added forward-looking advice.
The recurring departments round out a June number that pairs a warm Father's Day tribute with the pleasures and precautions of summer — lifting a reader's spirit with an uplifting local story while making sure their family stays safe outdoors.
“Motherhood, Music and Miracles” opened on a scene of ordinary contentment: fifteen-month-old Henry toddling across the living room to the family's yellow Labrador, dropping to a diaper-cushioned seat to pat the patient dog on the back and head, then popping up to peer out the window — all energy, alternating between shyness and friendliness as the writer sat and talked with his mother — the picture of a healthy, happy toddler at the heart of a story about music and small everyday miracles.
Table of Contents
- Motherhood, Music and Miracles (p. 6)
- What More Could One Want of a Summer’s Day? (p. 24)
- Preventing Tick-Borne Illnesses (p. 28)
- Being Daddy for a Day (p. 32)
- It’s Never Too Early (p. 36)
- Lydia Walker (p. 38)
- Liposuction of the Male Breast (p. 46)
- Low Back Pain (p. 50)
- Clarksville’s Daycare Daddy (p. 54)
- A Campout Under the Stars (p. 62)
Regular Departments
- Advice (p. 18)
- Faith & Family (p. 40)
- Campbell Families (p. 60)
- The Fridge (p. 64)
- Family (p. 66)
- Coloring Contest (p. 79)
