When University of Arkansas student Jackson Joyce took his saxophone to the Jean Tyson Child Development Center one late spring...
K.C. Compton worked as a reporter, editor and columnist for newspapers throughout the Rocky Mountain region for 20 years before moving to the Kansas City area as an editor for Mother Earth News. She has been in Seattle since 2016, enjoying life as a freelance and contract writer and editor.
Picture this: a 3-year-old in a preschool classroom is playing with a popular toy when a classmate asks if they...
A recent report by a National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine committee declared the need to promote science, technology,...
As mental-health professionals, pediatricians, parents and educators weigh how to address what is widely viewed as a mental health emergency...
While Helen Russell’s clever, well-researched exploration of the parenting culture of Denmark and other Nordic countries might not fully map onto the experience of most families in the U.S. or U.K. (Russell’s original home), it offers refreshing insights that can help parents relax a bit, give themselves heaps of grace and have much more fun raising their family.
Though it’s been decades since I’ve read it, I’m certain I could come out of a deep sleep and, if...
The scene is familiar the world over: a parent speaks to their baby in that high, singsong voice we now...
Though national media outlets recently trumpeted the news that workers at a Tennessee Volkswagen plant had voted to join United...
Home-based child care is a fact of life in the U.S. On any given day, millions of children spend their...
When we hear the word, “lullaby,” most of us imagine something like the dictionary definition of “a gentle, quiet song that lulls a child to sleep,” a cradle song to soothe a baby’s way to the Land of Nod. For the past 12 years, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute has been refining that definition with its Lullaby Project.
Sometimes the barriers that keep a pregnant person from seeking prenatal care and all the benefits that accrue to mother...
One sentence can hold a lot of heartache. This one, for instance: Babies born to mothers on Medicaid died at...
