Childcare & Early Education

Childcare & Early Education MomsVote Politics & Policy

February 12, 2021

This week we have a wide range of important actions for you to take as you start your weekend from urging Congress to support comprehensive legislation addressing the Black maternal health crisis, to signing up to hear about what’s WINNABLE in Congress as we #KeepMarching for change, to ending the...

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Sue Anne Reed

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Childcare & Early Education MomsVote Politics & Policy Social & Emotional Development

February 5, 2021

ICYMI: Helping others find their voice...and their power...is one of the beautiful super powers of the MomsRising community. This past week, members like you stood up for students, celebrating Black Women and lifted up the care providers who are holding our communities together. Here are the voices...

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Kerri Karvetski

Childcare & Early Education

January 28, 2021

This morning, I took my three year old daughter to a new daycare center for the first time since the pandemic started. After months of delaying the grueling process, and, if I’m being honest, not ready to pick a new daycare for my daughter (I spent months being very upset that my amazing daycare...

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Diana Limongi

Childcare & Early Education

January 13, 2021

This year comes with new resolutions, but one of my goals has not changed: Continue using my Mom Voice to make our child care needs to be heard and prioritized. I am a mother of two and a full-time educator working remotely due to the COVID-19. Like many of you, I am continuously trying to figure...

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Marysol Perez

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Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security MomsVote Paid Family Leave Politics & Policy

January 8, 2021

ICYMI: Happy New Year MomsRising members! Not suprisingly, it's been one heck of a first week, see-sawing between joy for Georgia, horror for the attack on the Capitol, and the long, grinding struggle of keeping our families safe and secure in the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Take a look at what rose...

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Kerri Karvetski

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security MomsRising Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Podcast Realistic & Fair Wages

December 22, 2020

As we close out the year we have some special guests on the radio show this week as we talk about how much emergency relief from Congress it will take to revive the U.S. economy. We also discuss the need to extend paid leave and sick days and uncover what's going with after school care and how to...

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Amber Dorsey

Childcare & Early Education

December 17, 2020

As part of its America For Early Ed Initiative, NAEYC created its “Our Votes. Their Futures” electoral advocacy campaign, which engaged thousands of child care providers and families in the 2020 elections. NAEYC teamed up with partners like ECM and hosted virtual panels at both major parties’ conventions, took part in National Voter Registration Day, and used social media to bring attention to child care as an issue to ask candidates about during debates and to hold them accountable for when elected.

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Erin Robinson

Nearly 30,000 NC children are on the waiting list for child care subsidies.

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security MomsVote Politics & Policy

December 17, 2020

ICYMI: The MomsRising community was all about creating, harnassing and using our PARENT POWER for good this week. Check out some content you might have missed for the week ending Dec. 18, 2020. YOUR GIFT MATCHED: Double Your Parent Power We need you now! As 2020 winds to a close, we’re giving...

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Kerri Karvetski

Childcare & Early Education

December 16, 2020

We are living in unprecedented times in a global pandemic. As a psychotherapist and child development expert, I witness and assist the anxiety and stress parents are under, and as I say, parenting is messy, and one of my missions is to help with that mess. We are currently parenting under uncertain...

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Lina Acosta Sandaal

Childcare & Early Education

December 15, 2020

With many schools across the country going virtual for the indefinite future, life has turned upside down for families. As two toddler moms working from home, we juggle snacks, naptime, and teatime with stuffed animals with our own endless Zoom meetings and overflowing inboxes. It’s easy to feel...

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