Childcare & Early Education

August 24, 2011

A Canadian couple's decision to keep their infant's sex from the world at large seems less weird when one consider's the harms done by the marketing industry's sexualization of young children

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Susan Linn

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education

August 23, 2011

Three weeks ago I “came back” to work. I say “came back” because for the previous 10 weeks I was at home taking care of a newborn and now I’m back at my full-time career. I love the saying, “every mother is a working mother.” Now that I’ve had the experience of being a first-time mother, I relate...

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Michelle Noehren

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education

August 12, 2011

Only one woman on the "Super Committee"? Ouch! Here's the math: Women are 50.7% of our population, only 17% of Congress, and an appallingly low 8% of the Super Committee . This lack of representation on the debt ceiling Super Committee which is charged with cutting $1.5 trillion from the federal...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Get crafty!

Childcare & Early Education

August 10, 2011

I made this cape from one color of fabric, but you could easily get two different colors (1 yard of each) for a double sided cape!

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Lara at HowDoesShe

Childcare & Early Education Health Care Blog Carnivals

August 3, 2011

The controversy brewing over a new breastfeeding doll soon to be sold in the United States reminds me of the bru-ha-ha about Teletubbies when Jerry Falwell accused Tinky Winky of being gay. People rightfully upset about homophobia came to the support of the show, misguidedly defending the goodness...

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Susan Linn

Childcare & Early Education

August 2, 2011

The brave sweating educators and parents at the rally were protesting a growing cancer on education – the bulbous growth in standardized testing. The politicians on both sides of the aisle are out of control on this one.

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Lily Eskelsen

Childcare & Early Education

July 25, 2011

Our small steps alone will not solve the crisis, but actions suggested here help build compassion, connection, greater understanding of the world's challenges from a young age, and even cultivate creative problem solvers. Collective action builds momentum and benefits the U.S., too.

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Homa Tavangar

Childcare & Early Education Food!

July 19, 2011

When you are struggling to keep the kids entertained during the summer, worrying about whether you actually remembered to take the sandwich out of the refrigerator and put it in your child's lunch box this morning, or engaging in a Worldwide Wrestling match to reapply sun screen on your child, the...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Childcare & Early Education Health Care Blog Carnivals

July 7, 2011

I was a student when my husband left me to care for our one year old by myself. I had to quit school and move back in with my mother to make it work. I used to work at a Coffee Bean just for the insurance, but the childcare costs were more than my hourly wage! I knew I had to go back to school if I...

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Robin Witt

Childcare & Early Education Health Care

June 21, 2011

No one would argue that former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had a passion for women’s . . . issues. But throughout his seven-year tenure, Arnold never made a serious and sustained effort to terminate the state’s Commission on the Status of Women. Let’s be real – it was sheer political...

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Kate Karpilow