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National Governors Association’s Task Force on School Readiness Releases Final Report The National Governors Association (NGA) established a gubernatorial Task Force on School Readiness in 2002 to identify actions that governors and states could take to support families, schools, and communities in their efforts to ensure that all children are ready for school. The Task Force unveiled its final report, Building the Foundation for Bright Futures: Final Report of the NGA Task Force on School Readiness, in January. This report contains a list of policy recommendations for how governors can promote ready states, ready schools, ready communities, ready families, and ready children. The extensive list of recommendations includes: partnering with private and public stakeholders to create school readiness strategic plans, supporting a high-quality early care and education workforce, and providing new funding sources and leveraging existing resources to help build a more comprehensive school readiness system. Many of the report’s recommendations are already in place to varying degrees in different states. The report also includes a Governor's Guide that ties the list of policy recommendations to concrete examples of state initiatives that promote school readiness.
Wednesday February 16, 2005#
Is This Abuse? Is this abuse? The Child Care Forum's Moderator (Symphony) this week has posted a child situation that a local woman ran into and sent a letter to the editor concerning it. Child abuse is heinous; everyone advocates the stop to this horrific attack on our young. But, sometimes, well-meaning individuals cross the line over reporting abuse and responding to a parent's right to appropriately discipline their children. Take a look and judge for yourself. Monday February 14, 2005#
31 Ways to Tell Your Child 'I Love You' Valentine's Day certainly is just one day out of the year in which parents can express their love of their children. About Parenting Special Needs Guide Terri Mauro offers 31 tender ways to tell any child "I Love You" in a special way at any time. After all, who can ever get enough of those three heartfelt words? Friday February 11, 2005#
School Bus and School Zone Safety A Year-Round Caution! I watched a female motorist whip around a school bus nearby my home and then nearly hit a car head on. The truly scary part is that I saw her expression just before she nearly caused a possible tragic accident, and her anger was placed on the yellow bus and driver instead of her irresponsible actions. That near-accident served as a reminder that motorists need to be aware of school bus and school safety year-round, and not just at the start of the school year. Here are school zone and school bus safety tips to help ensure all our children are kept safe from motorist accidents. Monday February 07, 2005#
Get Credit (The Child Care Kind) Where Credit Is Due The latest edition of the Family Initiative Bulletin, produced by Legal Momentum, encourages families to take advantage of available tax breaks. Federal and state tax credits can provide substantial savings to eligible families. For example, during the 2005 tax filing season, eligible families can claim up to $2,100 from the federal Child and Dependent Care Credit, $1,000 per child from the federal Child Tax Credit, and $4,300 from the federal Earned Income Tax Credit. Additionally, 26 states and the District of Columbia have state child and dependent care tax provisions and 17 states and the District of Columbia have state earned income tax credits, which can provide additional help in paying for child care and other necessities.
To learn more about how to claim these credits, you can find a new publication by the National Women’s Law Center’s Tax Credit Outreach Campaign, Credit Where Credit Is Due: Lower Your Taxes or Increase Your Refund to Help Your Family. Friday February 04, 2005#
Top 10 Things Child Care Providers Want YOU To Know Being a child care provider is easy, right? You just have to love kids? Hopefully, you don't have this belief, because it is ever-so-wrong. Child care providers are professionals; it takes MUCH more than a love of kids to be successful. Sometimes, providers love working with kids but it's the working with parents that they don't like so much. However, open communication and clear understanding of the rules and practices will make it a positive experience for the parent, provider and child alike. To get that dialogue started, Here are Top 10 Things Child Care Providers Want YOU to Know. Wednesday February 02, 2005#
Boredom-Busters for Sick Kids My children's care providers and teachers report that illness is striking the classrooms quicker than you can say, "strep!" and that contagious childhood ailments are thriving at this time of the year. Some classes have had almost a 50 percent absence rate. A few weeks ago, my three children (and me, of course) were stricken, causing the inevitable loss of school, child care, and alas, work time as well. We utilized several of these kid boredom busters while on "sick leave." Now, we're all healthy and I'm trying really hard to keep it that way. It's hard when kids are dropping like flies from stomach bugs and other icky illnesses. I guess you could say that we're a "hand washin' frenzy family!" Saturday January 29, 2005#
The Gallagher Guide to the Baby Years: The Real Mom's Survey of Top-Rated Products and Advice After having just visited a friend who is a new mommy as of just over a week ago and has tons of questions about her upcoming parenting journey, I am confident that the book, The Gallagher Guide to the Baby Years: The Real Mom's Survey of Top-Rated Products and Advice, is right on the mark! New moms and experienced moms alike have lots of questions about pregnancy, baby, and trying to juggle all the demands of life along with providing quality care for their young one. This book takes the approach of using real moms to issue straightforward, practical and genuinely-useful advice and tips, packaged into a easy-to-read and enjoyable guide. Read my review about the book and also how to get a copy. Thursday January 27, 2005#
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