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Help fund, build ,and operate a major facility to house and care for children who have been abandoned or suffered the traumas of domestic violence.

It is a not-for-profit organization funded entirely through the generosity of concerned individuals and organizations. The project was begun in 2015 by James D. Wyman, an Arizona businessman and father. In the course of his work in real estate, and in volunteer work with area charities, James repeatedly encountered children whose lives had been devastated by domestic violence – as well as children

literally abandoned by their parents. He resolved to use his skills and resources to help such people, in a significant and lasting way.

05/14/2021

School bullying taught me that parenting children the way I was raised no longer worked

When my older daughter was 9 1/2 years old and in fourth grade, she reserved a Percy Jackson book at her school library. After waiting weeks for her turn, she was thrilled when her name was finally called. Then, the boys in line behind her told her she should let one of them have it instead. “Everyone knows you can’t read it anyway,” they told her.

My daughter has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, is dyslexic and struggled to read at that time. But she still loved books. She liked to listen to me read them to her, even if she didn’t enjoy working to read them herself. But when her classmates insulted her, they might as well have ripped the book out of her hands and thrown it into a fire. It no longer held any joy for her.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/school-bullying-taught-me-parenting-children-way-i-was-raised-ncna1254450

05/13/2021

Are You Spending Your Parenting Time and Energy Wisely?

Carole entered our coaching meeting looking especially frustrated. As an IT leader at her company, she was under constant time pressure, and her week had gotten off to a stressful start. “I move mountains to wrap up work early on Tuesdays to get to my teen daughter’s soccer practice, only to feel like she doesn’t even care I’m there! I don’t know what to do. Sometimes, if I don’t go, I feel guilty. When I do make the time, I feel underappreciated. It’s a no-win situation.” This mounting frustration, she shared, had left her distracted and less engaged over the following two days, both at home and at work.

I hear scenarios like this frequently from clients who are working parents. And I have faced them myself. Both at work and as parents, we place high expectations on ourselves to be effective, successful, and to make the best use of our limited time. Misusing that time, in either realm, can feel like a double failure.

Despite the exhaustion of the early years, things are simpler the younger our children are. Newborns’ needs can be summed up in a short list beginning with food, care, and love — and we do it all. As they start school and advance through their teen years, our ability to find our highest and best use as parents becomes more complex. As we juggle work and home, with our time always squeezed, how can we ensure that we are spending our parenting time and energy in the right ways, especially as our children age and change? It begins with two questions.

https://hbr.org/2021/04/are-you-spending-your-parenting-time-and-energy-wisely

05/12/2021

Be 'Louder' About Your Parenting at Work

I can still remember the embarrassment I felt the time a young co-worker walked past my cubicle early one morning and paused to say, “Do I spy ‘the snack that smiles back’ in your bag? Wow, you really are a mom.” In my usual rush to get out the door and drop my son at daycare before heading into the office, his snack must have landed in the wrong bag—because, sure enough, there was a sandwich bag full of Goldfish crackers practically spilling out of my purse.

I laughed, shoved those crackers deeper into my bag, and quickly changed the subject to something work-related, eager to take the attention off the fact that I did, indeed, have a Goldfish-loving toddler at home.

Those early years of parenthood were hard. My husband and I lived 2,000 miles away from family and our son was sick a lot. There were endless ear infections, allergies, specialists, minor surgeries, and one really awful chest x-ray—not to mention all the usual germs kids pass around daycare. We were forever weighing who had the more important meeting and who could sneak out early to pick him up when, once again, daycare called to say he had a fever. But there’s nothing professional about a sick baby, so as much as I could, I kept my role as a mom separate from my role as a (then) public relations manager.

https://offspring.lifehacker.com/be-louder-about-your-parenting-at-work-1846729955

05/11/2021

The journey of parenting a severely autistic child

Brooke Olson recalls the days of crouching in a fetal position while her son ripped her hair out, kicked and hit her as hard as he could. “You can’t (imagine) being in combat with your child, the person you love more than anything else,” she says. “He would come at me, and I’d be in a ball crying, sobbing. I was either going to hurt him or take it and just protect myself, so I just took it. I was scared to death of him. We couldn’t let anyone be alone with him.”

Olson’s child, Amick, now 15, isn’t a bad, angry, disturbed, mean young man. He is severely autistic and didn’t know how to handle stimulus, change or his frustrations. Recently, she and Amick went to the beach by themselves, rode in a golf cart and swam in the ocean. “It was the first time I was able to do something by myself with my child in so long. I couldn’t (imagine) us doing this two-and-a-half years ago.”

https://www.ajc.com/life/the-journey-of-parenting-a-severely-autistic-child/YLPJ33K4MRGHRGDD5OEOQO56IM/

05/10/2021

5 ways parents can help children with the 'new' math

In his March 2021 Netflix special, comedian Nate Bargatze complains about having to teach his kids a confusing “new math” based on standards known as the Common Core.

“The goal of Common Core is to use one sheet of paper for every problem,” Bargatze jokes. He observes that this new math requires people to “keep breaking the problem down.”

“You put the problem at the top, and it just keeps going,” Bargatze says. “And then what’s funnier is you see old math in the middle of it. As you break it down, old math gets in there and you’re like, ‘Oh, just do that at the top.’ I don’t even know what we’re doing.”

https://azdailysun.com/lifestyles/parenting/5-ways-parents-can-help-children-with-the-new-math/article_bb35882d-2997-5c24-86e8-2669b6feb155.html

05/07/2021

Thousands owing child support to lose licenses to hunt, fish

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The letter is hitting mailboxes across Utah.

“This notice is to inform you that according to records maintained by the Office of Recovery Services (ORS), you currently have child support arrears over $2,500.00,” it reads, then warns that under a new Utah law “you may not apply for, obtain, or attempt to obtain a license, permit, or tag for hunting or fishing...”

A law passed by the Utah State Legislature last year is going into effect on July 1 and thousands of people who are delinquent on child support could be denied a hunting or fishing license because they owe more than $2,500 in unpaid child support.

https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/news/article/Thousands-owing-child-support-to-lose-licenses-to-16127205.php

05/06/2021

This is what the pandemic taught us about military child care

The biggest lesson of COVID-19 is “you can’t separate child care from mission readiness. We absolutely cannot do that,” said Patricia Barron, head of military community and family policy at the Defense Department, in an interview with Military Times. “I think the department knew that before, but they really know it now.”

Barron, who was sworn in to the position in January of this year, said she’s very impressed with the work officials did at the beginning of the pandemic, “with the pivoting that had to happen in order to keep mission essential people at work and provide child care for their kids. What I also learned, with the child development programs, is that they are uniquely positioned for that kind of pivot.”

The requirements for health and wellness, sanitation, handwashing are all part of the culture of military child care programs, she said.

https://www.militarytimes.com/pay-benefits/mil-money/2021/04/21/this-is-what-the-pandemic-taught-us-about-military-child-care/

05/05/2021

Family celebrates adoption of young child, shining light on need for foster parents in the Brazos Valley

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - When a child needs a safe home, the Department of Family and Protective Services says it is critical to have foster parents available.

It’s something that Christi Yackel, faith-based and community development specialist for DFPS Region 7, says is of the utmost importance.

“We are always in need of foster homes because we have a variety of children coming in to care that have different needs that we need to meet,” said Yackel.

Especially in the last year, Yackel noted difficulty with having to move many of the meetings online and having to rely on other ways to get children in safe homes.

https://www.kbtx.com/2021/04/21/family-celebrates-adoption-of-young-child-shining-light-on-need-for-foster-parents-in-the-brazos-valley/

05/04/2021

‘Just get started’: Utah Foster Care looking for families of all races and cultures

(ABC4) – According to Utah Foster Care, there are about 2,500 children in foster care in the state at any given time but only 1,200 licensed foster families.

Utah Foster Care is looking for families of all races and cultures, specifically Latino or Native American families, to open their homes to fostering to meet the needs of diverse children.

“Children in foster care come from all racial and cultural backgrounds. There is a need for families of all races and cultures to come forward,” Utah Foster Care tells ABC4. “Children do better when placed with families who can help them maintain their cultural and racial identities.”

In Utah, one out of five children in foster care are Latino and Hispanic.

“Can you imagine being taken from your home, no matter what kind of home you came from, from everything that you’re familiar with and then be placed somewhere else? Being able to have something that is so much a part of you: your language, your food, all those things to have that piece of comfort to help you to assimilate, to feel at least a little bit more secure. I think is so important,” Suzi Ramos, a foster parent, says. “These children lose so much when they’re brought into care.”

https://www.abc4.com/news/digital-exclusives/just-get-started-utah-foster-care-looking-for-families-of-all-races-and-cultures/

05/03/2021

State Foster Care Agencies Take Millions Of Dollars Owed To Children In Their Care

Tristen Hunter was 16 and preparing to leave foster care in Juneau, Alaska, when a social worker mentioned that the state agency responsible for protecting him had been taking his money for years.

Hunter's mother died when he was little, and his father later went to prison, court records show, leaving him in a foster home. In the years that followed, he was owed nearly $700 a month in federal survivor benefits, an amount based on Social Security contributions from his mother's paychecks. He doesn't remember Alaska's Office of Children's Services ever informing him that it was routing this money — his safety net — into state coffers.

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/22/988806806/state-foster-care-agencies-take-millions-of-dollars-owed-to-children-in-their-ca

04/30/2021

Are youth sports harming our kids’ mental health?

In the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, I swore I’d never again complain about driving carpool for my kids’ rock-climbing team through Seattle traffic. Medical science has long touted the physical and mental health benefits of children’s sports. Add in social interaction, and youth sports feels like an all-in-one pandemic fix.

But as youth teams and leagues return, it’s worth examining what our children are actually signed up for. Youth sports are no longer the neighborhood pickup games of American lore. In recent years children as young as 6 and 7 are increasingly enrolling in high-level sports programs with professional coaches and year-round competition schedules.

By age 13, up to 70% of children have dropped out of organized sports. I was certain the stats wouldn’t apply to my family — until two of the best, strongest, older athletes on my kids’ climbing team dropped out.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-04-10/youth-sports-mental-health-pandemic

04/29/2021

Virtual school can be damaging to children's mental health, CDC study says

Virtual instruction may pose more risks to the mental health and wellness of children and parents than in-person learning, according to a study published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More support may be needed to deal with the effects of the pandemic.

Parents whose children received virtual instruction or a combination of virtual and in-person instruction were more likely to report increased risk on 11 of 17 indicators of child and parental well-being, according to the new CDC study. The agency's researchers looked at survey responses from October and November 2020 from 1,290 parents with children ages 5 to 12 years old.
Nearly 25% of parents whose children received virtual instruction or combined instruction reported worsened mental or emotional health in their children, compared to 16% of parents whose children received in-person instruction.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/26/health/cdc-remote-learning-kids-mental-health-wellness/index.html

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