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Top #5Actions of the Week: June 21, 2019

We're back with this week's list of top #5Actions from the past week, featuring hot items around defending health care, gun safety, family separation, and more. We also still eager for your input on which issues are most important for you so we can create our "Mom Platform" as we head into the next presidential election. Please scroll down, take action, and share with family and friends, too. Thank you for all you do, and here's the list => 1. Quick Signature: 21 Million People Cannot Lose...
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Karen Showalter
June 21, 2019
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Good News: VoteRunLead, Children's Defense Fund, and more!

Check out the best from the blog in the past week: a single mom speaks out; Marian Wright Edelman lifts up another hero for children's rights; and we share a great action opportunity for you!
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Anita Sarah Jackson
June 21, 2019
Families belong together!

Stand with NC immigrant communities! Urge Gov. Cooper to veto HB 370

Family separation isn’t something that’s just happening at the national-level. Right here in North Carolina anti-immigrant lawmakers are stepping up their attacks on North Carolina’s immigrant communities and the democratically elected sheriffs who have pledged to protect them. HB 370, an anti-immigrant bill that forces sheriffs to help ICE detain and deport community members and will inevitably lead to more family separations, has already passed the state House, and now an even more extreme...
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Beth Messersmith
June 21, 2019

Why You Need to Think Twice Before Taking That Facebook Quiz

What kind of pizza are you? What does the kind of pet you have say about your personality? Which U.S. city is your perfect fit? Quizzes like these are all over Facebook and other social networks. For kids, online personality tests are as compelling as the Hogwarts Sorting Hat: They define you at the precise moment when the most important thing is knowing who you are. And, whether you're a Slytherin or just shy, personality quizzes sort us into social groups where we feel safe knowing that there...
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Childcare & Early Education Politics & Policy Social & Emotional Development
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Caroline Knorr
June 21, 2019

Thank You, MaryLee Allen

MaryLee Allen was a brilliant, passionate, persevering, caring servant leader—not a self-serving leader—committed to helping build a world fit for children. When the Children’s Defense Fund was brand new, I was searching for smart, passionate people to help with our earliest work. One of the very first ones I found was MaryLee. Immediately after graduating from Marquette University with her degree in sociology MaryLee had come to Washington, D.C. to join the Civil Rights Division of the Justice...
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Social & Emotional Development
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Marian Wright Edelman
June 21, 2019

Immigrant Children Are Still Children

The Trump administration’s cruel treatment of children and families at the border has not stopped. Children continue to die in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), including 16-year-old Carlos Gregorio Hernández Vásquez, who died May 20 just hours after being diagnosed with the flu. Despite the law requiring unaccompanied migrant children to be transferred to the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) within 72 hours, Carlos had been held for more than...
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Immigration
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Marian Wright Edelman
June 21, 2019

Discipline, Assistance and Bullies in a Preschool Classroom

Cross-armed and teary-eyed parents sat across from me, listening to me speak about the issues in their children’s classroom. They took a deep unified breath after I stated clearly, “There’s no such thing as a bully in a preschool classroom.” One parent stood to walk out before their partner asked them to stay. It was a tense room, tense because parents tend to get overwhelmed with fear and anger when they imagine that their three year old may be in danger of being hurt. In this meeting I was...
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Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget MomsRising Social & Emotional Development
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Lina Acosta Sandaal
June 20, 2019

The importance of teaching Racial Equity in our classroom

My name is Reshonna and I was born and raised right here in Seattle, WA. I grew up in a household with a single mother who was a teacher. As a young girl I knew from watching my mom that teaching was something that I wanted to do when I got older. I started working at 12 years old with infants, and I fell in love! At the age of 18 I started working at a Montessori preschool, and in 2012 I got my certification. picture-26241-1560987721.jpg My name is Monica and I have 2 children of my own. I...
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Childcare & Early Education
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Monica Martinez
June 19, 2019

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