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“We were told to prepare for a huge influx of kids because of this and 2 weeks later I had to temporarily close because I couldn’t make payroll. I let the essential parents I had down because the operating cost far outweighed the income. I am a single mom with 4 kids that live in…
The COVID-19 pandemic has been and continues to be a traumatic event for all of us, including young children. The fear, uncertainty, anxiety, and stress of the past months have impacted our lives in different ways. Experts have written about the impacts of the pandemic on children’s development. Children’s responses to stress can manifest both…
A recent article from CNN discusses a new study from George Mason University that analyzed data capturing 1.8 million hospital births in Florida between 1992 and 2015. The study found that when White physicians cared for Black newborns, they were about three times more likely to die in the hospital than White newborns. This disparity…
A transition to school is not one singular event or day, but rather a process over time. Transitions can come at many times during a child and family’s life, and in an “ordinary” year, transitioning into preschool is a significant time that typically comes at the end of summer/early fall. Thinking about the transition into…
We are sharing the obituary of Sister Elaine Roulet, a Roman Catholic nun who made a difference in the lives of women and children over the years. Sister Elaine helped female inmates bond with their children and created programs for mothers both in prison and after release. Read the article written by John Leland from…
Many educators have expressed how their relationships with families have strengthened during remote learning. We have seen how educators and families have collaborated closely during these past months and how these partnerships have been necessary to understand and advocate for children and their families. One area where this is especially important is during the first…
I cannot begin to say how proud I am of my staff and colleagues. People react very differently to stress/trauma, and we collectively reacted in a very proactive way to the needs of our center’s families. We closed our doors on Friday, March 13, and by Monday, March 23rd, we began providing daily pre-recorded circle…
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. – Pablo Picasso From an early age, children engage with the world as artists, composing arrangements of objects, lines, colors, words, sounds, movements, and gestures. Children use art all the time, to represent their ideas about beauty, science, math,…
This past July marked the 30th anniversary of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA opened many doors for individuals with disabilities, with the rights to equal opportunities in education including higher education and employment. When the early childhood field thinks about the ADA, we most often think about the accommodations and services we…
I am an early childhood teacher and two and half years ago I became a mother of a premature baby (32 weeks). He was a brave little baby, learning from day one all the new tasks the doctors asked for: gaining weight, breathing without assistance, eating/drinking, and regulating his temperature. Nurses and doctors were providing…
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