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...
Colorado Pilot Gives Home Child Care Providers Cash Payments with No Strings Attached
More Providers Stay Open and Manage Income Fluctuations
Angelica Lerrga started caring for children in the basement of her sister’s Colorado home in 2009, after her husband had...
With $125 Million Hanging in the Air, Vermont Sets the Stage for National Child Care
Even After the Governor’s Veto, Sufficient Votes Exist for an Override
The Vermont legislature is close to enacting their goal of bringing near-universal child care to their state with $125 million...
Home-based child care is the most prevalent form of child care in the United States and particularly for infants and...
Elliot’s Provocations: Bring on School-Aged Care
Can We Create a Seamless Melding of Early Child Care and School-Aged Care?
Linking early child care and school-aged care is a good idea both on the merits and the politics. I’m hardly the first one to point this out, but I want to highlight the opportunity here as we head into summer break and the acute headache it causes for many families.
In flipping the script, Banks writes that birth is immense, that birth has existential, moral and theological significance at least as great as death.
The Research-Backed Way to Keep Kids Safe
Anti-abortion lawmakers say they want to protect children. Here’s how.
Soon after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced on Twitter that his state would...
It’s hard enough to find child care in this country that is dependable and affordable when working a regular 9...
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...
More than 700 Child Care Providers Shut Their Doors to Demand Better Pay
“Without Child Care, There’s No Workforce”
Lorretta Johnson has been running a child care out of her home in Austin, Texas since 1999, caring mostly for...
If you’ve been following my work for the past year, you know I am deeply concerned about how unprepared our child- and family-serving systems are for this new reality. I’m not the only one. A new report puts a fine point on why early care & education stakeholders need to have a climate strategy, and why public officials need to have ECE in their climate strategy: a staggering number of child care programs are under threat.
Hospitality. Housing. Hope: Three resources every person dealing with homelessness needs—and they’re in especially short supply for women. For women...
