While the worst-case scenario for this winter has not yet come to pass — w/ flu & RSV in sustained retreat — there is plenty of time for another crisis to emerge. (via )
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On today's episode of The Daily, discusses the new guidelines on childhood obesity — reflecting a deeper understanding of what obesity is and what to do about it.
The “every family for itself” approach to child care in the U.S. means parents’ options for 3 months of the year are shelling out for expensive camps, fighting for limited slots in affordable programs, or nothing (via )
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My son texted me yesterday: We’re in a lockdown, not a drill.
An arrest was made and it ended ok.
The trauma it caused will last. Kids locked in barricaded rooms, texting parents thinking it was their last text, crying, listening for gun shots in the dark.
THIS IS NOT OK.
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I was the reporter who asked this question after listening to Rep. Greene downplay the impact of COVID-19 on young people & those who aren't obese. I asked if she feels any responsibility to people in Georgia to protect them. She said the responsibility is their own.
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"The most urgent threat to American security and stability stems not from abroad but from within, from political divisions that jeopardize the future of American democracy and even the United States itself." -
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“Do I put food on the table for my kids or do I pay the electric bill? These are the kinds of questions that nobody should have to face.” -
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The released new guidance last week (the 1st update in 15yrs) about how to treat childhood obesity — arguing that it shouldn't be stigmatized as a result of personal choices, but as a complex disease w/ short & long-term health implications.
69,000 US children were hit by public-school staff in one year — 30% of them in Mississippi. There, intentionally wounding a cat= 6 months in prison, but teachers can legally strike kindergarteners w/ wooden paddles for speaking out of turn.
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This week, Colorado's Universal pre-K program went live. We are proud to support more families like the Portillos with even more hours of free preschool.
Tell your friends with three-year-olds to go to upk.Colorado.gov today.
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This isn’t cover some kids, this is cover ALL kids.
“In a state with unrivaled healthcare, we cannot leave a child behind” - ⭐️
#CoverAllKids
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States are readying a flurry of privacy bills as Washington stalls - The Washington Post
Teachers Help Out Amid Changes to School Lunch COVID Funding – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth bit.ly/3XJXRtr
In a bid at 'keeping child care on the agenda,' talks funding in Olympia | Yakima Herald bit.ly/3kAx7NJ
#InvestInKids #ChildCare #Champion4Children
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"The shortages of medications in the United States have bubbled up into our consciousness because seeing little kids in harm's way is so poignantly awful for parents."
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DeSantis’s banning of AP African American Studies is disturbing and dangerous.
In my most watched whiteboard, I explain how censoring our history of its worst moments is a tool designed to obscure CURRENT attacks on a diverse democracy.
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A minute from yesterday's Iowa House Education Reform Committee meeting that is with your time if you've been paying attention to the voucher legislation in Iowa.
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The viral dads of Congress want better family policy for everyone - - Washington Post wapo.st/3XF8nlH
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#FamilyMedicalLeave #ChildCare
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A new buzzword to learn for 2023 "Zero-dose children"
Not just COVID, these are the kids who had never received ANY of even the most essential vaccinations — diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus. An alarmingly growing group and cause for global concern.
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Enhancements made to the #ChildTaxCredit in 2021 was associated with decreased anxiety & depressive symptoms among low-income adults w/ children according to new study published in this month's .
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When Covid-19 patients younger than 5 also test positive for another respiratory virus, they tend to become sicker and develop more severe disease, a new study suggests. -
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"When we did some research...the number one thing, when we asked [teenagers] what do you wish you could change in your relationship with your parents, they said, I wish my parents would spend less time on their screens and more time talking to me."
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. to focus on child civil rights - ABC News abcn.ws/3WgNix6
We applaud in his new role as New Mexico's Attorney General to make the fundamental rights of children a top focus on his office. We offer our assistance in his work for kids.
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Why is there even such a thing as a self-regulated industry that works with children? #tti #endtti #BreakingCodeSilence Hear the full podcast buff.ly/3X5oRDX
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Thanks for your question congresswoman. There’s no data to suggest increased fetal demise after COVID vaccination, but there’s ample data showing increased maternal death caused by COVID infection. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
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Is there is a correlation between fetal demise and covid vaccines? twitter.com/kacdnp91/statu…
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There's an interesting proposed change in HSB 31, the rules that govern the Iowa House. Rule 32 says any bills that go through the Education Reform Committee are exempt from Appropriations and Ways and Means, where their financial impact would be assessed. legis.iowa.gov/legislation/Bi
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I guess we will have to say it for them: the holiday is Martin Luther King’s birthday.
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Reminder: There is NO SCHOOL on Monday, January 16th. Enjoy your 3-day weekend, Dragon Nation! We'll see our students back in class on January 17th.1
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Conversion therapy is child abuse and violates the fundamental rights of children.
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Republicans in Wisconsin are blocking a ban on conversion therapy, which is a widely discredited practice akin to child torture. Subjecting minors to this trauma is known to increase the rate of childhood depression and suicide. This is how the GOP starts a legislative session.
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Cervical cancer rates dropped 65% from 2012 to 2019 among women in their early 20s after a generation of young women were vaccinated against human papillomavirus, or HPV, for the first time. #vaccines save lives. apple.news/A_iIObogLTLaTM
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The unemployment rate is currently 3.5%. That’s the lowest level in half a century.
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In the last two weeks, several mothers and their children have been shot and killed, allegedly by their intimate partners. This deadly intersection of guns and intimate partner violence is uniquely American, but it doesn’t have to be our reality.
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"Millions" of kids may fall into poverty because Congress won't extend child tax credit, expert says | - Salon bit.ly/3GLji6S
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