Childcare & Early Education

Childcare & Early Education Social & Emotional Development

May 30, 2017

*** Want more information on raising multilingual children? Visit MomsRising's bilingual parenting resource site: http://action.momsrising.org/survey/bilingual_baby/?source=blog Before my oldest daughter was born, when I still had not decided on a name or the type of diapers I was going to use,...

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Linda Stone

Childcare & Early Education Politics & Policy

May 30, 2017

The creation of a commission to study the school-to-prison pipeline and restorative practices are a huge step forward in ensuring all kids are set up for success.

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May 30, 2017

"Don't play with our kids." Michelle Obama's statement - in response to US Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue's declaration he will roll back or delay key elements of the healthy school meal standards - pretty much sums it up. Healthy food for kids isn't a game. It isn’t a partisan or a...

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Karen Showalter

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Childcare & Early Education Health Care Podcast

May 29, 2017

On the radio show this week we cover the latest on healthcare and what you can do to make sure it isn’t cut for 23 million people; the terrible, awful, no good, very bad budget that Trump proposed and how to stop it; paid family and medical leave in the United States of America; and why David...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Childcare & Early Education MomsRising Social & Emotional Development

May 26, 2017

image2.JPG The moment they brought my baby girl to my arms, the only words that came out of my mouth where in Spanish. Since I married an English speaker, and realized we would be raising our family in a small town in North GA, I felt fear that my children would not be able to communicate with my...

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Natalia DuTeau

Childcare & Early Education Social & Emotional Development

May 25, 2017

Welcome to another installment of #MomsReading! In this series, we discuss books and activities that parents and care providers can use to build a child’s social and emotional development. The rest of the posts in the series can be found here . Social-emotional skills support the success of...

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Abbie Gately

Childcare & Early Education Social & Emotional Development

May 24, 2017

*** Want more information on raising multilingual children? Visit MomsRising's bilingual parenting resource site: http://action.momsrising.org/survey/bilingual_baby/?source=blog I remember the first day of 7th Grade when I walked into my Spanish 1 class. We were given new names (Bethany was now...

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Bethany M. Edwards

Childcare & Early Education MomsRising Near You

May 19, 2017

Join us for a high-impact meeting with Mayor SImmons to discuss early learning opportunities in Cambridge, MA.

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Elyssa Schmier

Childcare & Early Education

May 18, 2017

*** Want more information on raising multilingual children? Visit MomsRising's bilingual parenting resource site: http://action.momsrising.org/survey/bilingual_baby/?source=blog Dr. Fabrice Jaumont is the Education Attaché at the Embassy of France in NYC. In that role, he has played an instrumental...

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Diana Limongi

Childcare & Early Education Social & Emotional Development

May 16, 2017

Note: This is a guest post by Aileen Passariello-McAleer, co-founder of MamaLingua for The BilingualRisers campaign. I was raised in a Spanish-speaking household. Although I heard Spanish throughout my childhood, I rarely responded in Spanish. I didn’t know how important my language was to me until...

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Diana Limongi