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China Aiming for the Gold in Starting Kids Early, U.S. is Late to the Game

August 24, 2012
Cross posted with author permission from the Huffington Post » In 2010, China and the United States each conducted a national census. China found that 76.0 million of its citizens were children under the age of 5, about four times the number the United States has, 20.2 million . ­No real surprise...
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Ann O'Leary
Childcare & Early Education Health Care

Pens and Computer? Check. Condoms and Birth Control?...

August 24, 2012
It’s that time of year when parents are busy with school shopping and taking our kids to the doctor for back-to-school checkups. If you have an older teen, you may want to consider adding one more task to your to-do list: talking about sex and contraception and helping him or her get the...
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Leslie Kantor

Familiar Balancing Acts: Conversations with the Women We Know Best

August 24, 2012
I don't know firsthand what it's like to balance work and family -- I graduated from college last year -- but I bet there's no hard-and-fast, works-every-time rule. There's no one article that will tell us exactly how to fill the many roles we envision for ourselves. There are stories and insights...
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Emma Sokoloff-Rubin
Health Care

How the Affordable Care Act Will Help Joshua

August 23, 2012
By Sabrina Corlette, Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reform When Joshua Lemacks of Richmond, Virginia takes the field for one of his Little League games, the other team may not be overly impressed with his batting average stats, but those who know him realize that he has beaten...
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Say Ahhh!
Podcast

#RADIO – Race To the Presidency

August 23, 2012
The race to the Presidency. With the November election fast approaching, things are really heating up! At the center of this massive political heat wave is, believe it or not, a federal budget proposal. This budget proposal has been called the “Path to Prosperity” by those who wrote it. But on the...
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Things I've Learned

August 21, 2012
As busy moms, sometimes it's nice to stop and think about all the lessons we've learned throughout our lives because it can help keep us focused on what's important to us. Over at CTWorkingMoms.com we started a new blog series titled Things I've Learned and each day one of my 24 bloggers posts up...
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Michelle Noehren
Open Flexible Work

A Personal Case for Living a Less Intentional Career Path

August 21, 2012
Lately I’ve seen a raft of new books aimed at helping women achieve success, which include lists of “secrets,” often contradictory. Looking back over my experience, here’s an alternative: be open to constant learning and risk-taking, live a full life and have a great career. Several years ago my...
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Linda Tarr-Whelan

What would you ask?

August 21, 2012
Last week, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced that a woman, Candy Crowley of CNN, would moderate one of the three nationally televised Presidential debates. This makes Crowley the first woman in 20 years (!) to moderate a Presidential debate. Although women have done a great job...
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Ashley Boyd
Health Care

"Legitimate rape"?!

August 20, 2012
Let's just say, I'm very glad that Congressman Todd Akin is not MY doctor - or any woman's doctor. This weekend, Congressman Akin from Missouri explained his understanding of the chance of pregnancy as a result of a rape the following way: "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try...
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Ashley Boyd
Immigration

No Child is "Illegal"

August 20, 2012
Anyone who has spent time with children knows that even the youngest kids are quick to absorb all that is being said around them. Thus, it is no surprise that children have caught on to the use of the term “illegal immigrant” when adults talk about immigration, and for children of immigrants, this...
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Wendy Cervantes

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