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Obama's Universal Preschool Plan: As Good As It Sounds?

Obama's Universal Preschool Plan: As Good As It Sounds?

02.25.2013
As a policy concept, universal preschool is a beautiful idea, but on the ground, nice ideas require concrete resources for the people putting...

Why Our Homicide Rates Are The Highest Of Any Advanced Industrialized Country: It's Not Just About Guns

02.25.2013
Here in the U.S. where we have minimal family support, providing easy access to guns, including assault weapons to millions of angry,...
Dear Daughter, I Want You To Fail

Dear Daughter, I Want You To Fail

02.24.2013
Even at 2, my daughter is wary of risk. I'm constantly encouraging her to jump, leap and tip over all she can. I want her to push her limits,...
Raise Your Hand If You Like Public Preschool

Raise Your Hand If You Like Public Preschool

02.22.2013
While support for working women in theory may pervade, so do daily struggles to balance work and family. Efforts to improve preschool options...

Changing Poverty Into Opportunity: A Moral Cause To Bring Us Together

02.22.2013
Fighting poverty must not be a partisan issue. When we look at both the causes and the solutions, this battle should bring both liberals...
Dr. Toy Talks About the Right Toys for Toddlers

Dr. Toy Talks About the Right Toys for Toddlers

02.22.2013
Toddlers actively explore their world and want to touch, smell and taste everything. Watch carefully and "child proof" your home and the...
What Being An Empty Nester Is Really Like

What Being An Empty Nester Is Really Like

02.22.2013
Now that I'm an empty nester with a world full of possibilities, I think back to the days when my choices were almost nil, and in some...

State of the Union Unites Generations

02.19.2013
Wherever our children live now or in the future, they must be equipped with the knowledge and skills to be able to contribute to their...
Preschoolers Can Learn Great Things From TV

Preschoolers Can Learn Great Things From TV

02.18.2013
When my first son was born six years ago, we had one television and one computer. Today, we have a smartphone, an iPad, a computer and...
Honest Toddler Wonders What Blue Ivy Is Doing Right Now

Honest Toddler Wonders What Blue Ivy Is Doing Right Now

02.18.2013
Honest Toddler finds adults so confusing sometimes. He's with them all day long, yet as he makes clear on his Twitter feed, he remains...
8 Things About Toddlers That Make It All Worthwhile

8 Things About Toddlers That Make It All Worthwhile

02.16.2013
At the end of the day -- literally, like, when they're in bed asleep -- you have to admit that toddlers are more love than they are trouble....
Obama's 'Pre-School For All' Only Guaranteed For Some

Obama's 'Pre-School For All' Only Guaranteed For Some

Joy Resmovits  02.14.2013
President Barack Obama visited an early education center in Decatur, Ga., Thursday to make his case for dramatically expanding pre-school...
Preschool for All: Getting It Right

Preschool for All: Getting It Right

02.14.2013
I never, ever thought I would hear a president of the United States, much less a president in the State of the Union address, call for...
Valentine's Day and Overachieving Moms

Valentine's Day and Overachieving Moms

02.14.2013
It's funny to think it was just five short years ago that I brought my oldest son to his very first preschool Valentine's Day celebration....