As childcare centers, preschools and other early education settings strive to stretch every penny, they often face daunting challenges in...

K.C. Compton
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.
Essential Labor is both a memoir and a call to action. The caregiving crisis the US finds itself in now will outlast the pandemic and we must figure out ways to care for each other.
Along with this history of metastatic industrial development, staggering pollution, relentless corruption and breathtakingly bad policy, Rector presents the other side of the coin: the fierce, courageous, dogged commitment of activists pushing back decade after decade, demanding cleaner air, better working conditions and water that wouldn’t poison their children.
As parents, educators and policymakers wrestle with the reality that a large and growing percentage of U.S. children are obese...
“Five- and six-year-old children are inheritors of poverty’s curse and not its creators.” –President Lyndon B. Johnson, May 1965 In...
An unfortunate fact about the health care and child development information physicians try to cover during well-child checkups is that...
For adults who’ve spent much of the past two years watching PowerPoint presentations while attending Zoom meetings, the idea of...
When an international team of researchers surveyed humor development in children from 1 to 47 months, they asked parents to...
In reviewing the extensive body of research on children’s language development, you might find yourself looking around for some fathers....
Anyone who has spent time around a toddler knows their signature cries of “No!” and “Mi-i-ine!”—often some of the first...