Parents, Your Child Needs A Balanced, Nourishing Diet. This Diet Chart Will Help You

Children need ample nutrition. What you eat in your childhood – a period of rapid growth and development- will prepare you for a healthy life. A balanced wholesome diet for…

Experts warn of new child care crisis: What to know

Millions of families across the country are bracing for the worst as the United States approaches a so-called “child care cliff.” On Sept. 30, tens of billions of dollars in…

The end of federal child care funding means parents leaving work and day cares shuttering

While government subsidies allowed Jordyn Rossignol to keep her child care center in northern Maine afloat during the pandemic, she finally made the wrenching decision in August to shutter because…

What America Can Learn From Canada’s New ‘$10 A Day’ Child Care System

Canada’s launch of a national child care system shows what it takes to improve child care across a country. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent…

Child care programs just lost thousands of federal dollars. Families and providers scramble to cope

WILLIAMSON, W.Va. (AP) — Kaitlyn Adkins is studying law to help families in her community impacted by the opioid epidemic at the heart of West Virginia coal country. But to…

Inside Canada’s 50-year fight for national child care

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning.  Just…

Child care workers face steep pay cuts as pandemic relief money ends : NPR

Destiny Vansickle is a teacher in the 2-year-old classroom at A Place to Grow. Thanks to the bonuses and wage increases she received in the pandemic, she was able to…

Nutrition Can Help Fuel Child Growth

It can be challenging for families when their kid falls behind on the growth curve. When this happens, it’s only natural for parents to want to see their child catch…

Idaho AG at odds with Health and Welfare again. This time it’s over child protection.

Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador says he wants to review a child protection case that involved the grandson of one of his supporters. The case was closed last year, but…

Child care feeding programs linked to better child and family health

Very young children who attend child care and receive onsite meals and snacks were more likely to be food secure and in good health, and less likely to be admitted…

Child Growth: Nutrients that are indispensable for your child’s growth potential |

Nutrition can help fuel child growth It can be challenging for families when their kid falls behind on the growth curve. When this happens, it’s only natural for parents to…

The Effects of Child Nutrition on Academic Performance: How School Meals Can Break the Cycle of Poverty

Growling stomachs, fatigue and brain fog: Every day, millions of kids around the world go to school on empty stomachs. For many, a school meal is the only food they…