E: Excellent Childcare
Posted May 11th, 2012 by Miriam Feffer
Meet Annie Spiegelman, a Bay Area mom who blogs as “The Dirt Diva” on matters of love, gardening, and cultivating a healthy planet. Just in time for Mother’s Day, Annie shares her interview with Rachel’s Network Co-Director Laurie Syms on the evidence that women in Congress, regardless of party, support the environment at rates that outpace [...]
Posted May 10th, 2012 by Claire Moshenberg
Welcome to Toddler Thursdays! Every Thursday, visit the MomsRising blog for crafts and recipes for toddlers and preschoolers, as well as news and tips on childcare and early education. This week, we’re celebrating Mother’s Day with easy homemade gift ideas for toddlers! Be sure to visit the MomsRising Pinterest page and our Mother’s Day and [...]
Posted May 10th, 2012 by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Do your kids argue? Or did they when they were younger? Here’s a hilarious Mother’s Day fantasy just for you! Click here: http://www.momsdaycard.com/index2.php Happy nearly Mother’s Day!!! – Kristin, Joan, Monifa, Elisa, Ashley, Nanette, Sarah, Julie, Sarah, Anita, Ruth, Claire, Donna, Mary, and Gloria
Posted May 10th, 2012 by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
This Mother’s Day we’re celebrating the fact that moms are now networked and engaged in ways unimaginable just a decade ago. More than 36 million women are now active in the blogosphere, either publishing or reading blogs. And, by the end of this year, more than 90 percent of moms with kids under age eighteen in our nation are [...]
Posted May 4th, 2012 by Erina Aoyama
Having lived in France for the past several years, I am often asked which differences with the US strike me the most. Aside from being able to buy delicious baguettes every few blocks, what surprised me the most were the differences in social services available. As a student, I receive full health coverage and reimbursement [...]
Posted May 2nd, 2012 by Rachel Sarnoff
by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director & C.E.O Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org Potential Autism Causes Identified What causes autism? Dr. Phil Landrigan, professor and chair of preventive medicine at Mount Sinai Medical School in New York and Honorary Board member of Healthy Child Healthy World, recently released a comprehensive list of environmental triggers, published [...]
Posted April 25th, 2012 by Cynthia Liu
We did it! We let Procter & Gamble know that their continued support of ALEC was unacceptable. And they dropped ALEC. As the main lobbyist source of the “kill at will” gun law that murdered Trayvon Martin, and proponent of voter ID laws that would disproportionately suppress women’s voting rights, ALEC supports toxic laws that [...]
Posted April 25th, 2012 by Rachel Sarnoff
by Rachel Sarnoff, Executive Director & CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org Happiest Babies Are Soothed by 5 S’s Can simple soothing take the place of sugar? That was the takeaway from a new study published this week in the journal Pediatrics. In a study involving more than [...]
Posted April 14th, 2012 by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
There is no question that Hilary Rosen should have chosen her words more carefully when she said that Ann Romney, mother of five sons, “never worked a day in her life.” Raising children is work. It’s immensely rewarding work, but it’s work just the same. Ann Romney is justifiably proud of the work she’s done [...]
Posted April 13th, 2012 by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
There is no question that Hilary Rosen should have chosen her words more carefully when she said that Ann Romney “never worked a day in her life.” As an organization representing moms of all political persuasions across the country and run by moms, we at MomsRising know well that raising children is work. Caregiving is [...]
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