Considering how often we say we care about children in the U.S., one might assume we’d be able to point...
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.
New Study: Hot Days Impact Kids’ Activity Levels and Health
Preschoolers’ Health in the Face of Rising Outdoor Heat
Given the impact of high outdoor temperatures on the health of small children, we might want to start thinking of...
Tennessee on Track to Become First in Nation to Offer Diaper Benefit to Medicaid Families
Good, Say Medicaid Expansion Advocates, But More Work Is Needed
Some of Tennessee’s most vulnerable families could soon get relief from the high cost of diapers, as the state works...
In flipping the script, Banks writes that birth is immense, that birth has existential, moral and theological significance at least as great as death.
Generation Hope: One Desperate Teen’s Story Grows into Hope for Hundreds
Collecting Data, Providing Services, Transforming Lives of Student Parents
Two little pink lines. Sometimes that’s all it takes to derail a person’s life and torpedo any plans they might...
Hospitality. Housing. Hope: Three resources every person dealing with homelessness needs—and they’re in especially short supply for women. For women...
Many people see the word “doula” and think, “Ah, yes. A midwife.” Though the two words describe important roles in...
When you’re not sure what to eat, But you want to make a healthy treat, A delicious meal so tasty...
Most of us instantly recognize the term “gray matter” as a synonym for the brain. Mention “white matter” and you...
Children 2, 3 and 4 years old—especially boys and Black children—are being kicked out of their schools at “staggering rates,” she writes—more than three times that of K–12 school children.
In her excellent book, Who’s Raising the Kids: Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children, Dr. Susan Linn brings this insidious behemoth to the foreground and underscores it with bright red lines.
“There is growing agreement on the need for more highly skilled child care teachers and an increased awareness that teachers...