Growing Up in Santa Cruz

  • February 2026

    A Mouthful of Help

    Publisher Brad Kava shares how a personal dental trauma led to the founding of Growing Up in Santa Cruz and reflects on the importance of local dental experts.

  • November 2025,  October 2025

    Growing Up and Growing Older

    One of the worst things that happened when raising my son was that no one told us that breast feeding in the middle of the night and not brushing his teeth right then could cause cavities. I wished someone in obstetrics had mentioned that. Instead, we had to take him to a pediatric dentist, where he was put under anesthesia and a great dentist did the work. His mother and I were in tears of fear watching this not quite a toddler on the chair. That’s one of the guiding principles for this magazine ever since. We want to get as much information out to parents as possible. This month…