Joan Alker, Co-Director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute , has been working on children's issues for over twenty years. When thinking about why children's health needs deserve more attention in health reform, she decided to seek out experts on the topic - her daughter and fellow 5th grade classmates in a D.C. public school. Her daughter, Emma, is an experienced blogger and wrote the following entry about her mother's visit to her classroom. Last week my mom came to my class (I'm in 5th grade) to discuss the important issue of why...