Social & Emotional Development

Childcare & Early Education Social & Emotional Development

January 4, 2019

As we begin the New Year, every new headline reminds us that these are very tumultuous times. I start this season redoubling my determination to focus all my energies towards helping build a transforming movement for children to end child poverty and inequality at this extremely dangerous time of...

Marian Wright Edelman

Maternal Justice MomsRising Politics & Policy Social & Emotional Development

December 21, 2018

*** Did you see this campaign? MomsRising is fighting for Cyntoia Brown, and your signature is still urgently needed. Please take a few moments to sign our petition asking Governor Haslam to grant Cyntoia Brown clemency NOW! Read on for all the details, and thank you for all you do. *** Yesterday...

Beatriz Beckford

Childcare & Early Education Social & Emotional Development

December 21, 2018

All during the Christmas season, as millions celebrate a poor, homeless child Christians call Savior, I think about the irony of some political leaders proposing (and citizens permitting) policies that would result in millions more children becoming destitute, homeless, and hungry and being...

Marian Wright Edelman

MomsRising Social & Emotional Development

December 18, 2018

I was sweating at the base of my spine thinking about the possibility that my two-year-old would wake up from her nap and I would have to tolerate all of the passengers staring and judging. This was my first trip alone on a flight with my daughter and my mind was whirling with multiple worst-case...

Lina Acosta Sandaal

MomsRising Near You Politics & Policy Social & Emotional Development

December 18, 2018

On October 2, the Graham County School Board quietly joined all the other 114 local school districts in North Carolina by voting to prohibit the use of corporal punishment in the public schools. Thus, for the first time in the history of our state (as well as the colony before it), no students...

Tom Vitaglione

Maternal Justice MomsRising Politics & Policy Social & Emotional Development

December 18, 2018

On June 6th 2015, the news of Kalief Browder’s untimely death was mourned across the country. Kalief at sixteen had been arrested for theft of a backpack, a crime he contended he did not commit. Subsequently, he was detained without being charged with a crime at Rikers Island simply because his...

Beatriz Beckford

Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security MomsRising Social & Emotional Development

December 14, 2018

Every December at my center , parents ask me how to not spoil their children and how to manage the gift-giving frenzy of the holidays. The following are the answers to the most popular parent questions during the holiday: How many gifts should we give our kids? There is no magic number but if the...

Lina Acosta Sandaal

Childcare & Early Education MomsRising Social & Emotional Development

December 10, 2018

Although the concept has been around for some time, social emotional learning (SEL) has become the new buzzword in education circles, joining the ranks of other child and youth-centered keywords including trauma-informed teaching, restorative justice, and positive behavior intervention schools...

Beatriz Beckford

Social & Emotional Development

December 6, 2018

“Up until I was 16 years old and a senior in high school, I did the same thing my friends did. We drove through the Black side of town throwing pears at Black guys and yelling racial epithets. We were the White oppressors. I was the White oppressor.” My dear friend Dr. John Maguire readily admitted...

Marian Wright Edelman

Politics & Policy Social & Emotional Development

December 4, 2018

As a parent, I believe that it is essential that my children feel not just physically safe, but also socially and emotionally safe in their schools. As a mental health professional who has worked in both elementary and high schools, I have seen that physical safety is often the primary focus in...