Social & Emotional Development

Childcare & Early Education Politics & Policy Social & Emotional Development

June 8, 2018

On the night Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who had announced his decision to run for president, was campaigning in Indiana when the news came of Dr. King’s assassination. He movingly shared the terrible news with the waiting crowd of mostly Black people, urging...

Marian Wright Edelman

Social & Emotional Development

June 8, 2018

Last month, we held our first Moms Of Teens event and boy was it eye opening! The panel was amazing and parents walked away with information and ideas they could take away and apply at home. Following are three points coordinator, Hellen Nurse wants to share with you. Teens don't need you to...

Monifa Bandele

Childcare & Early Education Social & Emotional Development

June 7, 2018

Happiness is a warm puppy. If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands. Don't worry, be happy! Rules for how to live happily are nothing new. But lately, our well-being -- and that of our kids -- seems to be in free fall. Depression , anxiety , and even youth suicide rates are increasing, as...

Caroline Knorr

Childcare & Early Education Social & Emotional Development

May 18, 2018

In a few weeks . . . we are coming to Washington in a Poor People’s Campaign. Yes, we are going to bring the tired, the poor, the huddled masses. We are going to bring those who have known long years of hurt and neglect. We are going to bring those who have come to feel that life is a long and...

Marian Wright Edelman

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Health Care Immigration Maternal Justice Radio Social & Emotional Development

May 14, 2018

On the radio show this week we cover how people are getting information and what it means to have changing mediums; the new #KeepMarching book; what’s going on in immigration policy and how you can help; the latest on protecting kids electronic data and a report from the USOW; and why decreasing...

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Immigration Social & Emotional Development

May 11, 2018

How many children will call out, "Mama! Where are you?", after announcements that children, even those as young as a year old, will be separated from undocumented families arriving at the border.

Carolyn Norr

Gun Safety Politics & Policy Social & Emotional Development

May 11, 2018

“Daddy,” the boy said, “I don't want to disobey you, but I have made my pledge. If you try to keep me home, I will sneak off. If you think I deserve to be punished for that, I'll just have to take the punishment. For, you see, I'm not doing this only because I want to be free. I...

Marian Wright Edelman

Social & Emotional Development

May 10, 2018

From cyberbullying to FOMO to cruel comments, social media can be a land mine for kids. Issues we parents never had to worry about, such as an intimate photo texted to the entire school or Instagram videos of a birthday party we weren't invited to, are now a risk for many tweens and teens. With...

Caroline Knorr

Politics & Policy Social & Emotional Development

May 8, 2018

The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. -- Gerda Lerner An unexpected source, Steve Bannon, recently declared the certainty of patriarchy’s demise, pronouncing: "The anti-patriarchy movement is going to undo 10,000 years of recorded history." May...

Carla Goldstein

Childcare & Early Education Social & Emotional Development

May 4, 2018

“The lynching tree interprets the cross. It keeps the cross out of the hands of those who are dominant. Nobody who is lynching anybody can understand the cross. That’s why it’s so important to place the cross and the lynching tree together, because the cross, or the crucifixion, was analogous to a...

Marian Wright Edelman