A school in Richmond, California, is handing schoolchildren jerseys embedded with RFID chips to keep so administrators can monitor children’s movement; problem is, RFID chips are unsecure, and could actually make preschoolers more vulnerable to tracking, stalking, and kidnapping.
Regular readers of my food blog know that my almost-four-year-old has been blessed with a, let’s say, discerning palate. (And by “discerning,” I mean that his list of Won’t Eats is approximately 638 times as long as the list of Will Eats.) This has been going on for close to two years now: I cook [...]
The Parenting in the Workplace Institute (PIWI) has a vision of a world in which interacting with babies is just part of a regular day at the office. For nearly 150 confirmed businesses and more than 1,600 babies, this world is already a vivid and enchanting reality. Will you help our Institute and MomsRising to [...]
Have you been there? Frustrated that it’s nearly impossible to excel at work (and home!) because the structure of your workplace doesn’t fit your life? Too many of us are banging our heads against the wall these days. Despite the workplace crunch that many of us face, there’s good news. An increasing body of research [...]
I got used to pulling out my wallet for my school kids. The same shopping trip for the shot glasses, my own little boy asked if he could have something-or-another. I remember telling him, “Sweetie, we can’t afford that.”
To: Everyone in the San Francisco Area Here’s a huge and unprecedented opportunity to take action to stop the toxic assault that threatens our communities and our children. Here’s a huge and unprecedented opportunity to take action to stop the toxic assault that threatens our communities and our children. Right now some serious reforms to [...]
Women are more involved with day-to-day household finances than ever before but most are still not planning for retirement and other major life goals. This is the finding of a recently published Prudential Financial’s 10th anniversary study on the “Financial Experience & Behaviors Among Women”. The report showed that 95 percent of women are involved [...]
It’s Women’s Equality Day, the date marked to celebrate women getting the right to vote in our nation 90 years ago today. It’s both hard (and easy in some sad ways) to believe that it was just 90 years ago that women got the right to vote in our nation. Reflecting on this, I called [...]
Today marks Women’s Equality Day, the commemoration of women’s suffrage achieved in 1920. What better time to take stock of what’s left to do? We need a national conversation led by the White House to explore how women decision-makers can help achieve better economic performance and a more prosperous future for all. The administration of Barack Obama has [...]
Over the last few months, we’ve been asking MomsRising members to send us their personal stories about the need for paid sick days and the response has been overwhelming. Members from every state have shared their stories, demonstrating the indisputable truth that lack of a rational paid sick day policy impacts each and every one [...]
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