Blog Carnivals

Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

April 19, 2016

Many parents are concerned about their child’s anxieties. All children have anxieties, yet sometimes they seem excessive. Parents can best help their when they understand the nature of their child’s inner experience, and are able to see the world through their eyes. What is anxiety?: We are...

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The Lucy Daniels Center

Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

April 19, 2016

There is a certain intimacy that comes with sharing a heritage language with someone you love. This is not a value statement. It’s no more or less intimate, just an additional layer in an intricately woven tapestry. With intimacy comes connection. With connection comes empathy and a deep sense of...

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Yalda Modabber

Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

April 18, 2016

“Who helps the helper?” In a new documentary, Portraits of Professional Caregivers: Their Passion and their Pain , this poignant question is posed by an early childhood educator. Over the last decade a plethora of research has emerged demonstrating that exposure to trauma and violence in early...

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Leslie Lieberman

Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

April 18, 2016

Community networks organized around ACEs and resilience, like those participating in MARC, provide a ready vehicle for concerned moms (and non-moms) to join the movement to end childhood trauma and to create a just, healthy and resilient world.

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MARC

Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

April 18, 2016

Underlying the buzzwords “social emotional health” and “trauma-informed care” is some astounding new knowledge that will knock your socks off if you haven’t heard about it. And once you grok it, it will change your entire outlook on why humans behave the way they do, including kids. This new...

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Jane Stevens

Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

April 18, 2016

A core component of a healthy school environment is supporting social and emotional learning. Social and emotional learning includes knowledge and skills such as understanding and managing emotions, setting and achieving positive goals, feeling and showing empathy for others and making responsible...

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Alexandra Mays

Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

April 18, 2016

As a mother of two, including one with special needs and a birth defect, I have seen first-hand how parents, children and society all win when families have access to high-quality affordable childcare, early learning programs, and mental health programs that take children’s social and emotional...

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Sheila Arias

Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

April 18, 2016

Moms don’t need much convincing: we know that the early childhood years are critically important in setting the stage for all that life has to bring, and the ways that children learn how to respond and react. Young children’s social and emotional development - that is, how they learn to relate to...

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Lindsey Allard Agnamba

Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

April 18, 2016

When we hear about a person’s mental health, it’s often in the context of a problem – a colleague is struggling to handle stress at work, a friend’s child is having behavioral problems at school, or a family member has received a diagnosis. And almost always, these discussions are limited to older...

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Matthew Melmed

Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

April 18, 2016

I recently traveled to East Tennessee, up in the Appalachians, and the green and mountainous beauty all around really struck me. At the same time, I heard how difficult life there can be, especially for the adorable elementary-school children I was meeting. My local colleagues shared with me a wide...

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