Is baby getting enough breastmilk? New device helps moms learn
A group of university researchers at Northwestern — including a nursing mother — have come up with a way to ease one of the most anxiety-producing dilemmas of early breastfeeding: ...
Tag: Early Childhood
How toddlers are managing to climb into some above-ground pools, spurring massive recall
About 5 million above-ground swimming pools — a summer staple in many yards across Southern California — have been recalled due to toddler drowning risk, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety ...
California sues Trump for blocking undocumented immigrants from ‘public benefit’ programs
California and a coalition of other liberal-led states sued the Trump administration Monday over new rules barring undocumented immigrants from accessing more than a dozen federally funded “public benefit” programs, ...
‘I already want to cry.’ Undocumented parents prepare for the unthinkable: Giving up their kids
Sonia’s son has been anxious lately, crying and asking why their neighbor had been picking him up from preschool instead of his mom. She doesn’t know what to tell him. ...
The 9 LGBTQ+ children’s books targeted in high court ruling upending education policy
Picture books are not usually the stuff of Supreme Court rulings. But on Friday, a majority of justices ruled that parents have a right to opt their children out of ...
Child-care providers brace for a painful scenario: What if ICE comes knocking?
Adriana Lorenzo has stopped letting children play outside after 10 a.m. at the child-care program she runs from her Boyle Heights home. That’s the time she’s heard ICE agents start ...
Could phonics solve California’s reading crisis? Inside the push for sweeping changes
To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, ...
California legislators are protesting Trump’s cuts to Head Start — even Republicans
On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of legislators in Sacramento released a letter urging California’s congressional delegation to protect the embattled Head Start program and reject any proposed Trump administration cuts. ...
ACLU sues to halt Trump administration attacks on Head Start child-care program
The American Civil Liberties Union, on behalf of six early childhood organizations, including one in California, sued the Trump administration Monday to halt the dismantling of Head Start and restore ...
With Head Start in jeopardy, Trump administration threatens child care for 800,000 kids
Since President Trump took office in January, Head Start centers have been unnerved by an escalating series of threats, including, most recently, total annihilation. An end to the historic federal ...
