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This 5-minute video depicts a theory of change from the Frontiers of Innovation community for achieving breakthrough outcomes for vulnerable children and fam...
Here are some kid-friendly business ideas and how make them successful.
A child’s first 1,000 days are a time to be seized.
What do you do when a foster child is returning home? If you’ve had a foster child in your home for any length of time, you know how easy it is for foster parents to get attached. However, since reunification is always the original goal of foster care, what can a foster parent do when […]
Three rules that might make your child a future Nobel Prize winner
The Family and Medical Leave Act was a huge step forward for working families, but it’s not nearly enough.
Although it's a mistake to become overprotective and make your child fearful, it is important to recognize the actual risks and familiarize yourself with the signs of abuse.
If your child is being bullied, she'll need some help learning how to stand up for herself and when to get help.
Ask the Doctor: Why is the Emergency Department referred to as a safe haven?
Government agencies have been trying to protect children for nearly two hundred years. Why have they failed?
Meeting your child for the very first time can be just as powerful and life-changing as when someone meets their child in the delivery room.
A brain scan study pinpoints the changes associated with child abuse that may raise people's risk of depression, PTSD and addictions later in life.
With Pinwheels for Prevention, the pinwheel has come to serve as the physical embodiment and reminder of the great childhoods we want for all children.
When you reflect on your own life, you can probably pin point the key adults that helped to inspire and support you over the course of your childhood and adolescence. Whether it was someone you met through a formalized mentoring program or people you knew through your school, church or community, these folks helped to shape you into the person that you have become. It is important that all kids have positive adult role models, besides their parents, throughout their lives. Research has…
Find the right psychologist for your child and your family.
Children with special needs are more likely to be targets of bullying, and in many cases aren’t equipped with the communication tools to respond to it, p...
New research suggests that curiosity triggers chemical changes in the brain that help students better understand and retain information.
Ask your child these 3 questions every night to help your child learn how to verbally express themselves and to help you learn about their day.
Under functioners are skilled in the art of learned helplessness. They have quite literally learned to be helpless, because someone was always there to pick up the pieces for them.