#Child care

[politijohn]

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Direct financial assistance has proven to be a fantastic support to those who receive it. This is a great start.

#child care #current events #news #Michigan #politics #us politics #government #the left #progressive

[batboyblog]

Things Biden and the Democrats did, this week #7

Feb 23-March 1 2024

The White House announced $1.7 Billion in new commitments from local governments, health care systems, charities, business and non-profits as part of the White House Challenge to End Hunger and Build Healthy Communities. The Challenge was launched with 8 billion dollars in 2022 with the goal of ending hunger in America by 2030. The Challenge also seeks to drastically reduce diet-related diseases (like type 2 diabetes). As part of the new commitments 16 city pledged to make plans to end hunger by 2030, the largest insurance company in North Carolina made nutrition coaching and a healthy food delivery program a standard benefit for members, and since the challenge launched the USDA's Summer EBT program has allowed 37 states to feed children over the summer, its expected 21 million low income kids will use the program this summer.

The US House passed a bill on Nuclear energy representing the first update in US nuclear energy policy in decades, it expands the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and reduces reducing licensing fees. Nuclear power represents America's single largest source of clean energy, with almost half of carbon-free electricity coming from it. This bill will boost the industry and make it easier to build new plants

Vice President Harris announced key changes to the Child Care & Development Block Grant (CCDBG) program. The CCDBG supports the families of a million American children every month to help afford child care. The new changes include capping the co-pay families pay to no more than 7% of their income. Studies show that high income families pay 6-8% of their income in childcare while low income families pay 31%. The cap will reduce or eliminate fees for 100,000 families saving them an average of over $200 a month. The changes also strength payments to childcare providers insuring prompt payment.

The House passed a bill making changes to the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) program. The 8(a) is an intensive 9 year program that offers wide ranging training and support to small business owners who are socially and economically disadvantaged, predominantly native owned businesses. Under the current structure once a business reaches over 6.8 million in assets they're kicked off the program, even though the SBA counts anything under $10 million as a small business, many companies try to limit growth to stay on the program. The House also passed a bill to create an Office of Native American Affairs at the SBA, in order to support Native-owned small businesses.

The White House and HUD announced steps to boost the housing supply and lower costs plans include making permanent the Federal Financing Bank Risk Sharing program, the program has created 12,000 affordable housing units since 2021 with $2 billion and plans 38,000 additional units over ten years. As well as support for HUD's HOME program which has spent $4.35 billion since 2021 to build affordable rental homes and make home ownership a reality for Americans. For the first time an administration is making funds available specifically for investments in manufactured housing, $225 million. 20 million Americans live in manufactured housing, the largest form of unsubsidized affordable housing in the country, particularly the rural poor and people in tribal communities.

The Department of Energy announced $336 million in investments in rural and remote communities to lower energy costs and improve reliability. The projects represent communities in 20 states and across 30 Native tribes. 21% of Navajo Nation homes and 35% of Hopi Indian Tribe homes remain unelectrified, one of the projects hopes to bring that number to 0. Another project supports replacing a hydroelectric dam in Alaska replacing all the Chignik Bay Tribal Council's diesel power with clear hydro power. The DoE also announced $18 million for Transformative Energy projects lead by tribal or local governments and $25 million for Tribal clean energy projects, this comes on top of $75 million in Tribal clean energy projects in 2023

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg put forward new rules to ensure airline passengers who use wheelchairs can travel safely and with dignity. Under the planned rules mishandling a wheelchair would be a violation of the ACAA, airlines would be required to immediately notify the passenger of their rights. Airlines would be required to repair or replace the wheelchair at the preferred vendor of the passenger's choice as well as provide a loaner wheelchair that fits the passenger's needs/requirements

The EPA launched a $3 Billion dollar program to help ports become zero-emission. This investment in green tech and zero-emission will help important transportation hubs fight climate change and replace some of the largest concentrations of diesel powered heavy equipment in America.

the EPA announced $1 Billion dollars to help clean up toxic Superfund sites. This is the last of $3.5 billion the Biden administration has invested in cleaning up toxic waste sites known as Superfund sites. This investment will help finish clean up at 85 sites across the country as well as start clean up at 25 new sites. Many Superfund sites are contained and then left not cleaned for years even decades. Thanks to the Biden-Harris team's investment the EPA has been able to do more clean up of Superfund sites in the last 2 years than the 5 years before it. More than 25% of America's black and hispanic population live with-in 5 miles of a Superfund site.

Bonus: Sweden cleared the final major barrier to become NATO's 32nd member. The Swedish Foreign Minster is expected to fly to Washington to deposit the articles of accession at the US State Department. NATO membership for Sweden and its neighbor Finland (joined last year) has been a major foreign policy goal of President Biden in the face of Russian aggressive against Ukraine. Former President Trump has repeatedly attacked NATO and declared he wants to leave the 75 year old Alliance, even going so far as to tell Russia to "do whatever the hell they want" with European NATO allies

#Thanks Biden #Joe Biden #Politics #US politics #Democrats #Climate change #end hunger #hunger #proverty #disability #native Americans #tribal rights #clean energy #child care #housing #housing crisis

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Prince Edward Island has announced $10-a-day child care will roll out in the province Jan. 1, 2024, more than a year ahead of the 2026 target. The announcement Friday morning, at a daycare and training facility at Holland College, promised $10-a-day child care for all kids in the province’s 72 designated early years centres and 13 family home centres. However, 10 non-designated daycares, which represent roughly a tenth of the child-care spots in the province, are not included. Natalie Jamieson, minister of education and early years, said they are working to ultimately bring all child-care providers into the fold.

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#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #prince edward island #child care #cost of living #affordable child care

[threetrenchcoatsinatrenchcoat]

Thinking about Tula apologizing to Lila. Thinking about it a lot. It was thorough, it was sincere, and Tula changed how she talked about the subject afterward. Most depictions of child care are bad partially because the writers don't know how child care actually works, and the writers who get it are so few and have so limited time, their depictions of good child care are therefore often overpolished. This is the grace given by long-form storytelling by people who really care. Seeing a mother who's really trying and treats her kids like people still fully, objectively fuck up. Then apologize.

I never saw that represented in any media as a kid. I wonder what it would have been like if I had. Or better yet if my parents had.

#burrow's end #d20 #hey every disney parent who seems overly strict at the beginning and cool at the end without ever apologizing or respecting a boundary #seeming nice sometimes and horrifying other times is really precisely what abuse looks like #tula #i respect brennan for a lot but a new highlight is choosing for tula to lose her temper in ways he knows warrant a later apology #child care

[one-time-i-dreamt]

My best friend and I lived in a small rural area in a small house and we ran some kind of agency together from it. One day, we got a knock on the door and someone left a baby on the doorstep with $5 million in cash and a note that said "please take care of them".

The rest of the dream was pretty much a sitcom of me and him taking care of this baby and buying baby necessities at Walmart while scrambling to take care of the child.

#dream #friend #best friend #friendship #sitcom #baby #walmart #buying #shopping #child care #childcare

[mapsontheweb]

Nebraska - ranked zip code population (ascending) multiplied by ranked registered child care centers in zip code (descending)

by u/KJ6BWB

#maps #KJ6BWB #nebraska #child care

[gwydionmisha]

#Schools #Child Care #News

[cafe-sao]

お母さんお水いる？お姉ちゃんお水いる？

はい、お水大盛り！と色々な場所へお届け

すかさず、おかわりは？と待つ娘。

#絵日記 #illustration #art #イラスト #絵 #子育て #線画 #line drawing #picture diary #diary #絵と子育て #育児 #お水 #Water #お届け #日常 #child care

[ghostowlattic]

parenthood 

#babysitter #dreams #futuristic #synthetic #synthography #synthetic life #post organic #post human #aesthetic #being #child care

[renegadesstuff]

Some things never change 🥹🤍

#911 lone star #tk strand #tarlos #carlos reyes #tk and carlos #tk x carlos #carlos and tk #carlos x tk #911 lone star season 4 #911 lone star season 3 #tarlos wedding #tarlos husbands #3x05 #Child Care #4x09 #road kill #4x12 #swipe left #4x18 #in sickness and in health

[randyite]

#family leave #developed country #rich nation #first world #paid vacation #universal health care #affordable college #child care #elder care #2024 election

[alchemistofthenewage]

How to Empower young children

For progressive parents, teachers and adults

Let them know that adults don’t have all the answers

Encourage free thinking and originality.

Let their opinions be heard and known. Don’t agree or disagree, create a judgement-free space for them to express and explore their ideas.

Give them choices and let them make small-level decisions for themselves.

Explain the consequences of an action in a factual way, not based on your negative past experiences. There are multiple probabilities and the child may not have the same experience as you did. You can however let them know about your fears around an experience, but also let them know that their experience is personal to them and will yield its own unique outcomes.

Give them pointers and directions to explore a certain concept by themself. Be a mentor and encourage them to ask questions while keeping the answers open-ended, ones that lead to further introspection for the child. A good answer is one that leads to more questions and digging in deeper rather than putting a dead-end to the exploration process.

The more briefly you can say something, the more clearly you have understood a subject and the better you can explain it to the child.

Children are full of energy and trying to calm them down is a futile effort. They have kinetic energy that requires them to move around, have space to play, run and have fun in their body while growing up. Don’t restrict their free movement or try to control them, instead give them ample opportunity to express this energy through their limbs as this is an important aspect of their physical development. In the early ages, growing physically happens before mental development, and hence is a greater priority, always remember that.

Teach your kids how to ask for their needs and be respectful of how you listen to them when they are expressing a need to you. Some needs are essential while others are less urgent, teach them the difference between the two and assure them that their essential needs will never be compromised and they must be loud and vocal about them, no matter who they are around.

Kids don’t understand the moods and issues of the adults around them. Help them understand what to expect and where and why you do what you do so they aren’t clueless about what’s going on. Don’t be afraid to speak about your vulnerable feelings with them in a polite way to help them understand better.

Never use aggression to control your child, be it verbal or passive aggressive as well. Children are very sensitive and only respond positively to the language of love. Using fear tactics on them is the fastest way to dis-empower them as individuals and turn them into a punishment-fearing restricted child instead of an authentic, happy and liberated child.

Give up the convenience of a quick fix and adopt approaches that will actually help empower children around us. You don’t have to be hard on yourself or be fake, start by just understanding things and being open to new ideas.

#parenting #children #child care #teaching #teachers #empower #empowerment #rainbow children #indigo #crystal #new earth #school

[apostateoverrubies]

It's so funny how my father is pro corporal punishment since he believes the lack of it is why there seems to be a rise in bad behavior amongst minors.

But as I look back on the stories he told about his childhood, it only emboldened my current beliefs of how it's ineffective and harmful.

My father got beat as a kid, and guess what? He didn't improve because of it. I've heard stories about he and his brother fighting other boys, I hear stories about how lazy he was, and I hear stories about him being a disrespectful and ungrateful little shit.

He got beat a lot as a kid, even over things that weren't his fault. And while he has convinced himself that it made him better. In reality, it made him worse.

Like a lot of boomers, he is very aggressive at best and violent at worst. He thinks he is entitled to good behavior he never learned himself and won't show other people in return. He is repeating the cycle of abuse because not once did he question the way he was bought up.

But the most ironic part of all is that a lot boomers like him still grew up spoiled. And it's not just shit like throwing a tantrum at a Starbucks because they have to wait either.

Their parents made sure that they had what was best so they could have a secure future. But boomers are apparently the first generation whose children are living worse off than them, and it has led to a ripple effect where even the generations after are suffering from their selfishness.

But God forbid they actually take accountability for that. Oh no. It's everyone else's fault. It's us, their children and grandchildren, who are the selfish ones. Whatever happened to the good old days, am I right?

But that tangent aside, it made me realize that violence and bad behavior in school is nothing new. That has always been a problem. Schools just can't hide it anymore because children now have phones with them and they record this shit.

I remember a lot of horrible things that happened in primary and secondary school, stuff that would've made the news. But the schools managed to hide it.

They always have been, and they're successful too because they've managed to convince the public that it's a growing problem and not one that's been there for a while.

So, of course, people like my father are convinced that this is the result of corporal punishment being banned in schools.

But corporal punishment didn't help then, and it wouldn't help now. Since the fucking 15th century, people have been reexamining how we raise children, realizing that certain ways they're brought up can harm them.

People aren't mindlessly saying we shouldn't beat kids. They looked into it and realized it wasn't helping. Not to mention, they offer much better alternatives.

It should be common knowledge at this point how harmful corporal punishment is. Even to this day, we get studies proving that it's ineffective at best and outright harmful at worse.

But people like my father don't know that. They will mindlessly believe stuff like the Bible that outright say that beating children is good because it'll help mold them into well-adjusted adults. Yeah, let's ignore the fact that this thing is thousands of years old, we don't know the actual author, and they probably never dealt with a child or should've never been trusted with them to begin with.

I am not going to follow some old ass back. I am going to the fucking professionals and learning my shit because kids deserve better and we've been doing them wrong for long enough.

#corporal punishment #child abuse #child care #tw child abuse #childhood abuse #school violence

[sapphire11]

3x05 Officer (Detective) Reyes + Supportive Boyfriend TK

#tarlos #tk strand #carlos reyes #911 lone star #season 3 #3x05 #child care #detective reyes

[betty-bourgeoisie]

Hating kids is bigotry full stop. It is not cool or edgy or alternative to hate kids. We live in a society where children are only tolerated because they are the next generation of workers. Where hating kids - and in fact hating your own kids is so acceptable that it's often the punchline of jokes. Hatred of children is visible in almost every welfare policy, education budget, and city plan in the country. You are not pushing against expectations by hating children you are just an asshole.

#children #child care

[cafe-sao]

ほら、めっちゃいい匂いするよ

お母さんもちゃんと近くで匂ってぇ

ねっ！いい匂いするでしょ♪

#絵日記 #illustration #art #イラスト #絵 #子育て #線画 #line drawing #picture diary #child care #flowers #絵と子育て #花 #香 #匂い #お母さんも一緒 #道草 #diary #artwork