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Where Are Your Family Values Now?

Where Are Your Family Values Now?

Love & Money / Politics The Senate Is Sitting in 28 Bills That Will Help Children in America. Why? Twenty-eight bills, all of which were designed or created to help improve the...

Caucuses and kids: Making the big decision through a parent’s eyes

Caucuses and kids: Making the big decision through a parent’s eyes

Iowa Democrats are bringing their kids out to caucus events, and while that comes with challenges, many say their kids' future is the reason they want to evaluate the Democratic...

New Year’s Resolution: No More Yelling

New Year’s Resolution: No More Yelling

About 40% of parents told us they wished they could do a better job of not yelling or raising their voice so quickly with their children. “Even if I yell, my kids don’t...

New Army program offers financial assistance for child care costs after a PCS move

New Army program offers financial assistance for child care costs after a PCS move

Soldiers and their families who move to a new duty station may be eligible for up to $1,500 in financial assistance for child care, under a new program. Army Emergency Relief...

New resource: Emotion Coaching in the Early Years

New resource: Emotion Coaching in the Early Years

Being an emotion coach requires adults to respond fully to young children’s expressions of their feelings and to help them to learn to regulate them for themselves — not just to...

Understanding the True Cost of Child Care for Infants and Toddlers - Center for American Progress

Understanding the True Cost of Child Care for Infants and Toddlers - Center for American Progress

Understanding the True Cost of Child Care for Infants and Toddlers By Simon Workman and Steven Jessen-Howard Posted on November 15, 2018, 9:02 am Getty/FatCamera PRESS...

More support to meet demand for early childhood educators

More support to meet demand for early childhood educators

To meet the demand for early childhood educators (ECE) in British Columbia, the Province is reallocating $4 million within the Canada-BC Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC)...

Understanding the Stages of Emotional Development in Children

Understanding the Stages of Emotional Development in Children

Emotions are what help us derive meaning from the world around us. Without them, we would experience life with the vibrancy of reading a technical manual on transmission repair....

The danger of making playgrounds too safe - ABC Life

The danger of making playgrounds too safe - ABC Life

"It's to do with litigation, isn't it?" said a colleague when I mentioned I was writing about playground design and risk. If asked, I'm sure many of us would assume the same...

Disabilities Newsletter Issue No. 24: Using the Activity Matrix to Maximize Learning Time

Disabilities Newsletter Issue No. 24: Using the Activity Matrix to Maximize Learning Time

Using the Activity Matrix to Maximize Learning Time Head Start professionals support children with a variety of needs. Lots of activities happen throughout the course of a day,...

How To Balance Family Life and Your Own Business in 5 Steps

How To Balance Family Life and Your Own Business in 5 Steps

I received a lovely thank you card in the post from one of my clients the other day. It is always wonderful to feel appreciated by your clients, and to feel like you have made a...

Our Kids Need and Deserve Champions | First Focus on Children

Our Kids Need and Deserve Champions | First Focus on Children

Our Kids Need and Deserve Champions Federal Budget First Focus Campaign for Children just released our 2021 Champions for Children Legislative Scorecard , which analyzed the...