parenting Archive
The rate of drug-exposed newborns is spiking across New Mexico, as are entries into the foster care system. Is there a link? While being examined by a gynecologist, a pregnant Doralee Urban did her utmost to keep calm and hide …
When my daughter was younger I was anxious. I didn’t have full-blown anxiety attacks, as some do. I had an almost constant anxiety motoring within me that would ebb and flow. Sometimes, it lasted days. Other times, weeks. It always returned. …
When fathers are involved with their children, a strong base of research shows that there are considerable benefits to the health and well-being of children, mothers and even the fathers themselves. The issue of engaging fathers has been the focal …
The European Social Network (ESN) invited me to speak at their Workforce Seminar in November of last year in Bratslavia, Slovakia. Alfonso Lara Montero is the Policy Director at ESN. Alfonso leads the organization to provide a collaboration to network …
We often hear that boys need to be toughened up so as not to be sissies. Parent toughness toward babies is celebrated as “not spoiling the baby.” Wrong! These ideas are based on a misunderstanding of how babies develop. …
I am the mom of a five year old. I am a step-mom to two teenagers. I am a wife. I work full time as a social worker. Upon hearing this, many people just sigh and say “Oh honey, bless …
Trigger Points is the first book written, edited, published by survivors of childhood abuse geared towards parents who are survivors. . THE FIRST! THE ONLY! . It includes essays from more than 20 men and women survivor parents with children of …
In the summer of 2011, July 22nd to be exact, I took an interim position at Paladin Career and Technical High School as the executive director, while the school board started a search for a permanent director. At the time, …
Many of the people I assist looking for employment have children and of those who do, almost all tell me how much those children mean to them. Most of the time they say, “My kids are everything” or “My kids are number one.”
Jim Roberts, CEOVoice of our CEO In the U.S., 397,122 children are living without permanent families in the foster care system. Of these children, 101,666 are eligible for adoption, but nearly 32% of them will wait over three years in …