Home-based child care is a fact of life in the U.S. On any given day, millions of children spend their...
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.
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...
Looking at contemporary Western society, the conclusion that we’re going to Hell in a handbasket might not seem farfetched. An...
All babies need attention and stimulation. What may be surprising is how little actual instruction they need. Given that the...
What two words are the universal answer to practically any question dealing with the reproductive health of incarcerated women in...
The federal Child and Adult Care Food Program works. One of 15 US Department of Agriculture programs aimed at reducing...
When the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project reported earlier this year that women in the workforce have made the greatest contribution...
A book intended as a catalyst for change, a call to action and marching papers for a national grassroots movement of those committed to addressing the racial, gender and economic injustices endemic to the ECE field.
The idea of climate change can seem so huge and impenetrable the temptation might be to panic, distract ourselves or...
Though family and faith are at the core of traditional Latino culture, and strong support for education is a powerful...