Podcasts about kids act

The Take It Down Act has passed congress! As it heads to the president's desk for signing, Haley McNamara sits down with Eleanor Gaetan (VP and Director of Public Policy at NCOSE) to discuss what this law does, why it's needed, and what's next on the horizon for protecting kids online. They also discuss the momentum we are seeing at the state level for the Safer Devices for Kids Act, which requires device manufacturers to have safety settings ON by default. Contact us here: public@ncose.com Read more about the TAKE IT DOWN Act passing: EndSexualExploitation.org blog Learn about the Safer Devices for Kids Act: EndSexualExploitation.org/Device-Protection-Bill Watch the video version of this podcast episode here: https://youtu.be/BiI8YQ05kX4

Growing evidence links heavy social‑media use to rising anxiety, bullying, and sextortion among kids, and state lawmakers are racing to respond. In this interview, Harvard Law School's Leah Plunkett—reporter for the Uniform Law Commission's child‑influencer act—and University of Virginia family‑law scholar Naomi Cahn examine how new statutes seek to verify age, require parental consent, and redesign feeds to curb addictive features.Plunkett and Cahn compare Florida's and Utah's sweeping under‑14 account bans with New York's pending “SAFE for Kids Act,” explore design mandates such as late‑night notification curfews, and explain why long‑standing COPPA rules leave teens largely unprotected. They unpack First Amendment and privacy challenges already moving through the courts, highlight emerging “digital Coogan” laws that safeguard child‑creator earnings, and note international moves—from Australia's proposed under‑16 ban to the U.K.'s Age‑Appropriate Design Code.(Credits: General 1.5 hrs | MCLE available to TalksOnLaw “Premium” or “Podcast” members. Visit www.talksonlaw.com to learn more.)

When kids act out - whether it's stealing, shutting down, pushing boundaries, or having emotional outbursts - how can we respond in ways that guide them toward growth rather than shame?Today, we explore two powerful real-life situations:A young10-year old boy who stole money from his mentor:  What was driving his behavior, and how could adults respond in a way that fosters learning instead of punishment?A seven-year-old struggling with his parents' divorce: How can his mother support his overwhelming emotions without taking on his distress or trying to “fix” his sadness?Through these stories, we unpack the difference between control and connection, how to set limits without losing warmth, and why holding space for kids' emotions is the key to their long-term resilience.Tune in as we explore - 2:24 Opening thoughts3:21 I'm dealing with a child who stole money and could use some help with a conversation.7:29 I don't like how I showed up and I want to bring something new to the conversation22:13 How can I help my son cope with his new home?Please share with your family and friends! Use PODCAST50 to get $50 off tuition for my Spring Deep Dive, The Art of Repair Work: From Regret to Resilience. Group starts on March 31st for 8 weeks, so register early to save your space. For ongoing practice and deeper learning, join my monthly membership program. You will find a safe space for live discussions and a supportive community of like-minded, open-hearted humans. Subscribe & Follow:Stay updated on new episodes and resources by subscribing wherever you listen to podcasts or visiting yvetteerasmus.com.Thank you for listening! Here are more ways to connect with me: Become a member of my online learning community Join my Spring Deep Dive: The Art of Repair Work Join our calls live Set up a private session Follow me on TikTok @dr.yvetteerasmus

The National Milk Producers Federation applauds the bipartisan Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, and Farmers for Free Trade executive Director, Brian Kuehl (KEEL) reacted to the imposition of Section 232 tariffs.

Join the conversation with C4 & Bryan Nehman.  C4 & Bryan kicked off the show talking the weather conditions with Scott Wykoff.  Elon Musk held court in the oval office.  President Trump met with King Abdullah II over Gaza.  C4 & Bryan also discussed the for kids act which could tax sugary drinks up to $500 million dollars a year. Howard County Schools Superintendent Bill Barnes joined the show discussing virtual learning practices, the budget & more.  Kath Klausmeir & Bob Cassilly are against a increase in budget.  Listen to C4 & Bryan Nehman live weekdays from 5:30 to 10am on WBAL News Radio 1090, FM 101.5 & the WBAL Radio App.

In this episode of the Play Therapy Parenting Podcast, I respond to a heartfelt question from Heather, a mom navigating divorce while helping her young child through big emotions and challenging behaviors like aggression and biting. I discuss how changes in relationships—such as a deployed parent, a changing caregiver, or shifting custody arrangements—can deeply impact a child's sense of stability and security. I explain why behaviors like biting and aggression often stem from emotional overwhelm rather than defiance and share practical, child-centered strategies to help guide children through these struggles. I also walk through limit-setting techniques that preserve the parent-child relationship while teaching emotional regulation and self-control. From handling aggression in the moment to reinforcing choices and natural consequences, I provide a clear framework for parents to set boundaries with confidence and consistency. If you're struggling with similar challenges, this episode will give you the tools to respond with empathy, structure, and intentionality. Ask Me Questions:  Call ‪(813) 812-5525‬, or email: brenna@thekidcounselor.com Podcast HQ: https://www.playtherapyparenting.com/ My Newsletter Signup: https://www.playtherapyparenting.com/newsletter/ My Podcast Partner, Gabb Wireless: https://www.playtherapyparenting.com/gabb/ Common References: Landreth, G.L. (2023). Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship (4th ed.). Routledge. Bratton, S. C., Landreth, G. L., Kellam, T., & Blackard, S. R. (2006). Child parent relationship therapy (CPRT) treatment manual: A 10-session filial therapy model for training parents. Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.

Brian Dembowcyzk, author of "Family Discipleship That Works," talks about how we can do more than pass on head knowledge about Jesus, and help our children see the beauty of living like Jesus.  Gale Kragt of Spiritual Care Consultants talks about how we can challenge the lies we believe, embrace God's truth about ourselves, and allow that to changes our lives.  Faith Radio podcasts are made possible by your support. Give now: Click here  

Family Life News Anchor Sarah Harnisch sits down with licensed Christian counselor Chris Anderson to talk about New York's new SAFE Act that sets limits on social media companies for kids and teens.

Can social media addiction in children be curbed through legislation?  Well, New York recently passed a law on "addictive" social media feeds for children, but some researchers are questioning what that actually means and how effectively these laws can be implemented. The laws come on the back of growing concerns over the effects of social media on the mental health of young people. From 2025, the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act will require social media platforms and app stores to seek parental consent before children under 18 use apps with "addictive feeds", a groundbreaking attempt to regulate algorithmic recommendations. Meanwhile, the New York Child Data Protection Act will limit the information app providers collect about their users. On this episode of Morning Shot, Derek Bambauer, Irving Cypen Professor of Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law shares his insights on the challenges behind the execution of the latest social media laws and how effective they will be. Presented by: Audrey SiekProduced & Edited by: Yeo Kai Ting (ykaiting@sph.com.sg)Photo credits: Vera – stock.adobe.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Ever notice how your child's mood is often dictated by what they are consuming online? New York has recently signed into law the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act which requires parental consent before use by under 18's. Social media law expert Sarah Hoffman weighs in on the topic.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on Cyber Matters, Tanner Wilburn and Katherine Kennelly cover a wide range of cybersecurity, privacy, and regulatory news. The episode begins with a discussion of the Department of Commerce's final determination prohibiting Kaspersky Lab from providing antivirus software and cybersecurity services in the United States.  Tanner then delves into the ongoing challenges with the SEC's cyber disclosure rules that went into effect in December 2023. Many companies have been using cautious language in their Form 8-K filings, often stating that they have not yet determined the materiality of cyber incidents. The SEC has issued further clarifications, including guidance on how companies should assess and disclose ransomware attacks. Katherine discusses the American Privacy Rights Act, which was unexpectedly pulled from a congressional hearing. The pair then covers the Protecting Americans' Data from Foreign Adversaries Act (PADFA), which took effect on June 23. This act establishes new restrictions on data brokers transferring sensitive personal data to foreign adversary countries, enforced by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Tanner and Katherine cover several significant court decisions. These include a ruling from the Northern District of Texas in American Hospital Association v. Becerra, which challenged the Department of Health and Human Services' definition of individually identifiable health information. The Supreme Court's decision in Murthy v. Missouri, addressing government involvement in social media content moderation, is also discussed. Additionally, they touch on the landmark Supreme Court decision overturning the Chevron deference doctrine and its potential effect on the administrative state. (More to come on future episodes).  State-level privacy legislation is a major focus of this episode, with Tanner highlighting three new state privacy laws taking effect on July 1: the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act, the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act, and the Florida Digital Bill of Rights Act. He discusses unique aspects of each law and notes Texas's aggressive approach to enforcement. The podcast also covers other state-level developments, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's veto of a cybersecurity safe harbor bill, Vermont's failure to pass a privacy bill, and Rhode Island's enactment of comprehensive privacy legislation. Katherine examines New York's newly enacted child and teen online safety bills, the New York Child Data Protection Act and the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act. Tanner then discusses California's third CCPA settlement, involving Tilting Point Media and its mobile gaming app. International cooperation in privacy regulation is touched upon, with Tanner noting the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) signing a partnership agreement with France's data protection authority (CNIL) for joint research and information sharing. The episode concludes with discussions on several other topics, including a lawsuit by the Arkansas Attorney General against Temu, Project Veritas challenging an Oregon privacy law before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Microsoft's blog post on "skeleton key" AI jailbreak techniques, and a brief mention of a Neiman Marcus hack. __________________________ Questions, comments, and feedback can go to cybermatterspodcast@gmail.com, and dont forget to subscribe to the podcast and share with your network.  Thanks for joining us, and we'll see you next week! _______________________ Links Mentioned in the show: https://www.bakerlaw.com/insights/northern-district-of-texas-flashes-the-blue-lights-on-ocrs-pixel-guidance/

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill that would allow parents to block their children from getting social media posts suggested by a platform's algorithm, a move to limit feeds critics argue are addictive. Pags gives his thoughts.

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Mike Ferguson in the Morning 06-21-24 Mary Theresa McLean from the St. Louis GOP talks about solutions for the city. We discuss New York Gov. Hochul signing legislation barring social media companies from bombarding children with “addictive” feeds in the nation's first “SAFE for Kids Act.” Story here: https://nypost.com/2024/06/20/us-news/ny-gov-kathy-hochul-signs-bill-banning-addictive-social-media-feeds-for-kids-the-first-in-the-nation/   NewsTalkSTL website: https://newstalkstl.com/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/NewsTalkSTL Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NewstalkSTL Livestream 24/7: http://bit.ly/newstalkstlstreamSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 3: 5:05pm- Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and Election Attorney Linda Kerns join The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss their tireless efforts to protect the integrity of the 2024 election. Visit https://protectthevote.com/pennsylvania/ to learn more about volunteering as a poll watcher or worker in Pennsylvania. And you can find Kerns at: www.lindakernslaw.com. 5:20pm- National Review's Andrew C. McCarthy wonders, “have we seen the last of the Trump trials?” He writes: “I don't think so. Or let me at least put it this way: I think those who look at the calendar, look at the negative reaction in much of the country to Alvin Bragg's patently politicized prosecution of [Donald] Trump, and pronounce lawfare at an end are overconfident.” You can read the full article here: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/have-we-seen-the-last-of-the-trump-trials/ 5:40pm- On Thursday, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the SAFE for Kids Act arguing that “our kids are worth fighting for.” But does this new legislation give the state's Attorney General far too much regulatory power over social media? It certainly seems like it. Rich notes that the bill also seems to do away with anonymity online. 5:55pm- While appearing on The View, former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci said the only crime he is guilty of is “trying to save people's lives.”

The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (06/20/2024): 3:05pm- During a CNN panel discussion, host Dana Bash suggested she is hesitant to play videos of Joe Biden for fear that snippets of the content will be used to portray the president as old and feeble. Earlier this week, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre baselessly claimed that Republicans were using “cheap fakes” to make President Biden look bad. But, as Rich notes, the videos are not fake, and no one is making them look any worse than they otherwise would be—Biden is making himself look bad all on his own. 3:30pm- During last week's G7 meeting in Italy, a video went viral when Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni appeared to corral President Joe Biden who—at that moment—was staring into the woods. Biden's campaign team has argued that the video is a “cheap fake,” and that the zoomed in version of the original video fails to display a paratrooper Biden was speaking with. However, as Matt explains, the original version of the video may be even more damning than the “cheap fake!” 3:40pm- Speaking with Anderson Cooper on CNN, New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman revealed that Donald Trump is taking next week's presidential debate very seriously, working tirelessly to prepare for it. 3:45pm- While appearing on MSNBC, former Meet the Press host Chuck Todd told Katy Tur that Donald Trump appears to be getting his 2016 “swagger” back—which could be bad news for Joe Biden in the 2024 election. 4:05pm- Elizabeth Pipko—Spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's upcoming campaign rally at Temple University's campus in Philadelphia, PA on Saturday, June 22nd. Pipko is a former model, a 2016 Trump campaign staffer, and author of the book, “Finding My Place: Making My Parents' American Dream Come True.” 4:30pm- If you could give former President Donald Trump one piece of advice prior to next week's presidential debate, what would it be? Listeners react—explaining that Trump should focus on the economy and foreign policy (not personal insults). Others say Trump should avoid becoming entangled in claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Above all, most listeners agree that Trump must remain positive and optimistic by highlighting his record as president. 5:05pm- Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and Election Attorney Linda Kerns join The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss their tireless efforts to protect the integrity of the 2024 election. Visit https://protectthevote.com/pennsylvania/ to learn more about volunteering as a poll watcher or worker in Pennsylvania. And you can find Kerns at: www.lindakernslaw.com. 5:20pm- National Review's Andrew C. McCarthy wonders, “have we seen the last of the Trump trials?” He writes: “I don't think so. Or let me at least put it this way: I think those who look at the calendar, look at the negative reaction in much of the country to Alvin Bragg's patently politicized prosecution of [Donald] Trump, and pronounce lawfare at an end are overconfident.” You can read the full article here: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/have-we-seen-the-last-of-the-trump-trials/ 5:40pm- On Thursday, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the SAFE for Kids Act arguing that “our kids are worth fighting for.” But does this new legislation give the state's Attorney General far too much regulatory power over social media? It certainly seems like it. Rich notes that the bill also seems to do away with anonymity online. 5:55pm- While appearing on The View, former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci said the only crime he is guilty of is “trying to save people's lives.” 6:05pm- In his latest piece, Shawn McCreesh of The New York Times bizarrely claims Donald Trump is trying to reset expectations for next week's presidential debate, explaining: “The former president has set a low bar for President Biden's performance at next week's matchup. Now, he is preparing supporters for the possibility that Mr. Biden clears it.” You can read the full article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/us/politics/trump-biden-debate-expectations.html 6:15pm- During a CNN panel discussion, host Dana Bash suggested she is hesitant to play videos of Joe Biden for fear that snippets of the content will be used to portray the president as old and feeble. Earlier this week, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre baselessly claimed that Republicans were using “cheap fakes” to make President Biden look bad. But, as Rich notes, the videos are not fake, and no one is making them look any worse than they otherwise would be—Biden is making himself look bad all on his own. 6:25pm- While appearing on MSNBC, former Meet the Press host Chuck Todd told Katy Tur that Donald Trump appears to be getting his 2016 “swagger” back—which could be bad news for Joe Biden in the 2024 election. 6:50pm- Katie Jerkovich of The Daily Wire writes: “A sequel to the 1987 Mel Brooks monster hit ‘Star Wars' parody ‘Spaceballs' is in the works, with actor Josh Gad and Brooks on board producing the upcoming film. Amazon MGM Studios confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that a sequel to the 1980s comedy is in early development with Gad not only on board to produce, but star in as well.” You can read the full story here: https://www.dailywire.com/news/spaceballs-2-is-happening-with-mel-brooks-producing

In this episode of The Tech Jawn, we cover Apple's World Wide Developer Conference Keynote. Brothech breaks down the new hotness coming to visionOS 2, iOS and iPad OS 18, WatchOS 11, and macOS Sequoia. TechLifeSteph catches us up with the saga of the phantom system data on her new Macbook Air. To make a long story short, Steph had to make a trip to the Genius Bar.And we wrap things up by talking about New York's new Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act. The bill, expected to be passed into law by New York's governor, essentially outlaws algorithmic feeds for children.Link to Show Notes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered”! In this episode, we dive into the latest updates on Donald Trump's classified documents case and the controversial FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. We reveal explosive new filings showing the FBI's authorization of deadly force, including staged photos and a potential confrontation with the Secret Service. The episode explores the political persecution of Trump, with 91 indictments raising questions even among average Americans. We discuss the severe economic downturn, which has families relying on savings, credit cards, and payday loans to afford groceries in 2024. Fast food prices at McDonald's and Taco Bell have risen by well over 100% due to rising fuel costs, supply chain issues, and government fiscal policies. Both political parties have contributed to this economic crisis that is affecting all Americans. Additionally, Google and Meta are opposing two New York bills aimed at protecting children from social media addiction. The Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation for Kids Act and the New York Child Data Protection Act aim to limit social media companies' use of addictive feeds and protect minors' personal data. Despite nearly $1 million spent lobbying against these bills, parents must recognize the dangers these platforms pose and protect their children. We also discuss how industries often scapegoat individuals to appease public outrage, drawing parallels between Harvey Weinstein's case and the current situation with Sean "Diddy" Combs. Despite the portrayal of Combs as the sole bad actor, many others have been complicit in perpetuating misconduct. BlazeTV contributors Jaco Booyens and Eric July join the show.   Today's Sponsors: PreBorn! To donate, dial #250 and say the keyword "baby" or go to https://preborn.com/sara Jase Medical Go to https://jasemedical.com and enter code SARA at checkout for a discount on your order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's Live Q&A Replay, Kris sits down with Elizabeth Woning to talk about the Protect Kids Act 2024. Sexuality in culture is much different than it was 25 years ago. Today, culture will say that gender is fluid, and the biology of someone is not held as the truth anymore. Elizabeth shares the reality of the LGBTQ+ movement and how it impacts our kids. Later on in the episode, they talk about the Protect Kids Act of 2024, a piece of legislation that takes measures to protect children from some of the ramifications of this movement! https://protectkidsca.com/ https://changedmovement.com/ Connect with Kris Vallotton: Website: https://www.krisvallotton.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kvministries/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kvministries/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kvministries Additional Resources by Kris Vallotton: https://shop.bethel.com/collections/kris-vallotton About Kris Vallotton: Kris Vallotton is the Senior Associate Leader of Bethel Church, Redding, and is the Co-Founder of Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry (BSSM) and Spiritual Intelligence Institute. He is also the Founder and President of Moral Revolution and a sought-after international conference speaker. Kris and his wife, Kathy, have trained, developed, and pastored prophetic teams and supernatural schools all over the world.

Gender confusion and questioning has massively increased in each successive generation with some reports stating 30% of Gen-Z identifying as LGBTQ. Why is this? What can we understand with it? How do we make a shift? The Protect Kids Act 2024 is a key that all individuals can take part of now. This measure is needs 500,000 signatures by April 18, 2024 to get added to the November ballot. The protect kids act: - Protects Women's Sports (creating safe spaces for biological females) - Requires Parental Notification (if a student begins to socially transition) - Prevents Childhood Sterilization (from irreversible puberty blockers & surgeries) Find out more at: protectkidsca.com Download the petition at: protectkidsca.com/sign-petitions/ Download the media kit to share: Media Kit --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moral-revolution/support

It's very common for all humans- kids and adults- to have more behavior struggles and dysregulation. Kids with vulnerable nervous systems, as well as attachment trauma, are especially likely to demonstrate some confusing patterns with regard to where they are regulated and where they aren't. In this episode, you'll learnThe neurobiology behind why it's normal for kids (and adults) to behave better at school (or work or out shopping or wherever)How the connections in a family could be the trigger for dysregulationHow all families tend to have moments that ebb and flow in dysregulation- this is normalResources mentioned in this podcast:The Tragedy of Disorganized Attachment (Part 5 of 6) {EP 38}Stress Response System {EP 94}When Connection Isn't Safe {158}Read the full transcript at:  Follow Me On:FacebookInstagramOver on my website you can find:Webinar and eBook on Focus on the Nervous System to Change Behavior (FREE)eBook on The Brilliance of Attachment (FREE)LOTS & LOTS of FREE ResourcesOngoing support, connection, and co-regulation for struggling parents: The ClubYear-Long Immersive & Holistic Training Program for Parenting Professionals: Being With***Hey, if you listen to podcasts, you'll probably love listening to Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors on audiobook! Download it on Audible or wherever you get your audiobooks!*** :::Overwhelmed and unsure where to start? Check out the START HERE podcast- I put it together just to answer the question "Where do I start?" Get your invitation at RobynGobbel.com/StartHere :::::Want to pick Robyn's brain, hang out with her in Zoom meetings and a forum you can access in an app? Come join us in The Club!Are you a professional who wants to support families of kids with big, baffling behaviors? Then Being With is for you!Just need a little extra help? Head to RobynGobbel.com/FreeResources

In today's deep dive, we’ll learn more about the uncertainty parents and school administrators have faced since the Invest in Kids Act expired at the beginning of the year.   

They don't listen. Don't obey. They misbehave.Act lazy.Defiant.Blame.Whine.Argue.This episode will help.Listen and learn the secrets to reaching your kids' hearts.Go deeper with Sean at www.SaveMyFamily.us

Educational freedom is one of the pillars of this show in 2024 and coming back to discuss just that here in the state of Illinois is Mailee Smith of Illinois Policy. What's up with the future of the now-dead Invest in Kids Act and educational freedom in the state. Also, how have unions affected that and so much more in the state and locally in Chicago as well. If this is here, it's coming to a locality or state near you soon too. Find Mailee's work here: https://www.illinoispolicy.org/union-membership-in-illinois-hits-record-low/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Let's highlight the times when children are the ones leading by example.   Amidst tales from the gift shop to the pickleball courts, I uncover a parallel universe to school where the expected roles of decorum are often flipped. 

On this topical show re-air, Crystal welcomes Dr. Stephan Blanford, Executive Director of Children's Alliance, for a wide-ranging conversation on childcare. They delve into the importance of childcare as an economic driver and its societal impacts through preparing kids for success in school and life. A review of the state of childcare in Washington reveals that this critical resource is often out-of-reach for those who need it most and looks at the factors that make it inaccessible and expensive. Crystal and Dr. Blanford then discuss how various stakeholders can make an impact on the issue at all levels of government. As always, a full text transcript of the show is available below and at officialhacksandwonks.com. Follow us on Twitter at @HacksWonks. Find the host, Crystal Fincher, on Twitter at @finchfrii, find Dr. Stephan Blanford at @StephanBlanford and Children's Alliance at @ChildAllianceWA.   Dr. Stephan Blanford As the Executive Director of Children's Alliance, Dr. Stephan Blanford leads a team of committed staff, volunteers and more than 6,000 members, advocating fiercely for the improved outcomes for children in Washington state. As an unapologetic advocate for racial and social justice, Stephan's work has ranged from early learning to college entrance leading small, direct service youth development agencies to multidisciplinary demonstration projects. In 2013, he was elected by the voters of Seattle and served a four-year term on the Seattle School Board, where he received the “Leadership for Equity” award at the conclusion of his term. More recently, the Evergreen Chapter of the American Society of Public Administrators awarded him the “Billy J. Frank Race and Social Justice” award for leadership and advocacy. Extending his work at a national level, he is the board chair of Integrated Schools and serves on the board of Partnership for America's Children, Balance our Tax Code Coalition, and several other progressive organizations. Dr. Blanford holds a Bachelors' degree in Social Justice from Antioch University, a Masters in Public Policy from the Evans School of Governance and Public Policy and a Doctorate from the College of Education at the University of Washington.   Resources Children's Alliance   Washington Child Care Collaborative Task Force | Washington State Department of Commerce   2023 KIDS Count Data Book | Annie E. Casey Foundation   “Child care costs more than college in Washington state” by Melissa Santos from Axios   “Report: WA's high cost of child care hits single moms hardest” by Sami West from KUOW   “The Real Costs Of Child Care In America” by Joy Borkholder from InvestigateWest   Transcript [00:00:00] Crystal Fincher: Welcome to Hacks & Wonks. I'm Crystal Fincher, and I'm a political consultant and your host. On this show, we talk with policy wonks and political hacks to gather insight into local politics and policy in Washington state through the lens of those doing the work with behind-the-scenes perspectives on what's happening, why it's happening, and what you can do about it. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast to get the full versions of our Friday week-in-review show and our Tuesday topical show delivered to your podcast feed. If you like us, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review wherever you listen to Hacks & Wonks. Full transcripts and resources referenced in the show are always available at officialhacksandwonks.com and in our episode notes. Well today, I am very pleased to welcome to the program Dr. Stephan Blanford, the Executive Director of Children's Alliance. And I wanted to have a conversation today about childcare - how important it is, how unaffordable it has become, and how we fix this - it's so important to so many people. And so I guess I will just start off by asking you, Stephan, why is childcare so important? Why does it matter so much? And what brought you to this work? [00:01:24] Dr. Stephan Blanford: Interestingly, I have a background in education - I served as, I was elected and served for a term on the School Board in Seattle. And also my doctoral work was in K-12. And there's a tight correlation between kids having experience in high-quality early learning settings and them doing well in K-12 settings. And so if you are interested in increasing achievement in the K-12 setting - and in particular, if you're interested in addressing the opportunity gaps, the racial opportunity gaps that affect so many children - you have to prioritize early learning and high-quality childcare in order to achieve that goal. And so that's something that I've been passionate about since - in particular - since my young child was of an age where she was getting into childcare. And I learned a lot about it and then have had a passion to try to have all kids have the type of experience that she had. [00:02:29] Crystal Fincher: Certainly, and I certainly have had my own experiences with childcare with my son, who is now definitely much older than childcare age right now. What do you say to people who say - maybe are an employer - what does childcare have to do with me? Why is this something we should be worried about as a community and as a society? [00:02:51] Dr. Stephan Blanford: Yeah, that's a great question. Because in many parts of the state - Seattle in particular, but many parts of the state - we're one of the most childless cities in the United States. So lots of people don't have that type of experience where they're looking for childcare, where they even know someone that is seeking out childcare. But it is such an economic driver. And so many of the negative outcomes that we see in society - in all parts of the state and in all parts of the nation - are correlated with kids not doing well in school and then not being successful in life. And so I tell people all the time, whether you are a grandparent that whose kids are no longer in school or a business owner or whatever, there's a huge implication on your life by the access or lack of access to childcare. [00:03:43] Crystal Fincher: Well, speaking of access - what is the state right now? We hear that it's unaffordable, we hear that it's hard to come by. Is that true? [00:03:53] Dr. Stephan Blanford: Yes, it is. In many parts of the state, there are families that have to drive great distances in order to find childcare. We call them childcare deserts, where there's such a limited supply of childcare that families are just giving up on that. And in many cases, it affects women - because obviously women are, who would normally be in the workforce are having to make really tough decisions and go back to taking care of kids at home where they would prefer to be out in the workforce and helping to support their families. So it has huge implications, whether you're in one of those childcare deserts or even if you're in a more populated part of the state - because that inability to find any childcare and more importantly to find high-quality childcare has severe implications for families and communities at large. [00:04:50] Crystal Fincher: Why is it so hard to find? [00:04:52] Dr. Stephan Blanford: There's a great number of complex factors that lead to the fact that the supply is reduced. The fact that when I sent my kid to childcare - I was also in school in a graduate program - and I was paying more in childcare costs than I was paying for tuition at that time. And that has not improved over the 10 years since I graduated from graduate school. That hasn't changed - where the cost of tuition at the University of Washington is lower than the average cost of childcare in most parts of the state right now. And so - mine is a middle-class family - if you're a low-income family, then the economics of that just do not pan out. And so we are coming to realize that childcare is a public good - it's a public benefit in the same way that K-12 education benefits the community as well as it does the individual child. But we don't have a mechanism by which we can support childcare centers so they can provide this critical service. And if I could add one more thing that I think is really important and complicates this matter, many of the childcare providers in Washington State and around the country are Black and Brown women. And for some unknown reason that has a lot to do with race and racism, they are undercompensated. It is the third lowest paid profession in Washington State right now. And when we think about the importance and the change in trajectory for kids that having access to high-quality childcare can have, it's unconscionable that that would be the third lowest paid profession. You would think that it would be way up there with doctors and other critical professions - it would be compensated at a rate that is commensurate with its importance in society - but for some reason it is not. [00:06:51] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, absolutely. And you brought up a great point. It is more expensive to pay for childcare than it is to pay for college, which is really saying something with the inflation that we've seen in higher education prices and along with childcare costs. So in this situation, how is it that costs are so high yet compensation for workers is still so low? [00:07:18] Dr. Stephan Blanford: Well, there's a big component of it that has to do with ratios. In most childcare centers that are licensed, you have to have a certain number of adults for a certain number of children. And in particular, kids that are 0-3 years old - they require an even more robust ratio to ensure that the kids are safe during that time that they are away from their parents. And so that has a lot of bearing on the cost - as well as a licensed center has to have exits, has to have lots of equipment in the center, has to be safe and obviously secure so kids aren't getting out and getting out into the street or whatever. And all of those costs are borne by the childcare provider, usually a business person who is trying to establish a center that has all the safety measures in place and the appropriate staffing ratios to ensure that kids are safe and learning while they're in their care. And that all of those things together lend themselves to it being a pretty expensive enterprise. [00:08:27] Crystal Fincher: Now, what does it mean - for a family and for a community - for childcare to be this expensive? [00:08:34] Dr. Stephan Blanford: Well, we spend a lot of time at Children's Alliance advocating that there is a role that the state government has to play in subsidizing the cost. Because the reality right now is - for low-income families who cannot afford those expensive costs that we've been talking about, that means that their kids don't have access to childcare at all. Or they have access to very low-quality childcare - we're talking about being placed in front of a TV and spending eight hours a day, not engaging in that way - and those are pretty significant, have long term consequences for young children. We believe that there is a role that the state government has to play. It has funded the Fair Start for Kids Act in 2021, which is driving about a billion dollars into the sector. And that's a start, but it is by no means the solution to the problem. So we will continue to advocate for improvements and increased funding to make it more affordable for families - middle- and low-income families - to be able to afford childcare, and also provide support for the providers who are trying to provide the service. [00:09:49] Crystal Fincher: So, you talk about how it is so challenging for the families to afford it. It sounds like the families who most stand to benefit from high-quality childcare, and who we need to make sure have access, are the ones having the hardest time affording and accessing it. Is that how you see it? [00:10:09] Dr. Stephan Blanford: That is exactly correct. Yes, that is exactly correct. And so the Fair Start for Kids Act that was passed in 2021 has gone a long way towards making it more affordable, but we don't have enough supply in Washington state. And that lack of supply is impeding the ability of the legislation to provide childcare. Ultimately, if you're a childcare provider and there are subsidies that are available, you're still trying to figure out ways to make sure that all the families in your community are getting childcare. And if you are constrained by the fact that you're only licensed to take care of 15 or 20 or 50 kids, then if there are a 100 kids standing outside your door waiting to get in, then you have to make some difficult choices. And in many cases, the families of those children - those hundred that are stuck outside - they then have to make difficult choices, which include someone staying at home so that there's someone to take care of the children. [00:11:15] Crystal Fincher: Which again, impacts a family's ability to be economically mobile, to participate fully in our economy, to be able to advance in the workplace. Childcare - for people with kids, communities with kids - is so key to just everybody's ability to function and participate in our society, basically. [00:11:40] Dr. Stephan Blanford: Right. And it has disproportionate impacts, as I've shared before, on women and their participation in the workforce. There's a study out of Washington State University that says that the gains that have been made in women's participation in the workforce in Washington State have been totally eroded by the fact that childcare is so inaccessible. Women who have decided that they want to participate in the workforce and have made that move and have gotten the training necessary to be able to participate in the workforce - those gains have been eroded by the fact that there is no childcare. And so we're trying to bring that data to legislators and say that we are at a time now where there's need for significant intervention and investment in the childcare sector to ensure that women can participate and children can be served. [00:12:37] Crystal Fincher: So you talk about there being this shortage and the wages being so low. How do we impact this shortage of childcare workers and pay them a living wage? [00:12:52] Dr. Stephan Blanford: Well, it has been nice to see - as someone who's kind of a grizzled veteran of advocacy around childcare and other issues - it's been nice to see a coalition of people who are now concerned, who now see the implications of this situation that we're in. So now there are business leaders, governmental leaders who never would have been talking about childcare 5 years ago, 10 years ago. And they now know that it is critically important to the economies of their communities, to business interests, to just every aspect of society. We can't really restart the economy to the degree that it needs to be restarted without a significant investment in accessibility and availability of childcare in the state. It just won't happen. And what it portends - our inaction - is that more and more populations are gonna be disproportionately impacted by that inaction. [00:14:02] Crystal Fincher: So what else is needed to help address both the affordability and the issues on the business owner's side - like the regulations, which sound like they're necessary to protect kids - and the costs involved? [00:14:18] Dr. Stephan Blanford: I believe that at some point we're going to have to have a statewide conversation about childcare. And my hope is that that will lead to more significant legislation. And if not legislation, a referendum that is passed or an initiative that is passed by the citizens of the state to tax themselves to be able to afford childcare for anyone who needs it. There are other states that are playing around with the idea of universal pre-K - making sure that every child in the state has access, which means a significant investment in childcare - there's an argument that says that it's a public good and should be funded in the same way that public education is funded. And the economics of it - there's a study that says that for every dollar invested in childcare, there's a $17 return to the economy of the jurisdiction that makes that investment, which is a significant bargain and helps to address some of the biggest challenges that we face around opportunity gaps - racial and economic opportunity gaps. So my hope is that there - we'll continue to have these conversations and get to the point where the voters of the state take this issue up. I believe it will pass. I think enough people are connected to it and understand that they will benefit. And my hope is that we'll see that in the short-term because it's having detrimental impacts right now for families and communities all across the state. [00:16:07] Crystal Fincher: It absolutely is having detrimental impacts. Barring a statewide initiative being passed - and that's a great idea - what can cities, counties, regions do to try and address this in their own areas? [00:16:27] Dr. Stephan Blanford: A great question. So I mentioned the fact that I served as a School Board director here in Seattle. And during that time, we were able to create a partnership between Seattle Public Schools and the City of Seattle where there were significant investments and collaboration between the two sectors - the K-12 sector and the early learning sector - to actually have childcare centers based in some of our elementary schools that were under-enrolled. Kids would move directly from the early learning part of the school into the K-12 sector. And there was a national organization that reviewed that collaboration and gave it its highest rating - saying all states in the nation should emulate that type of a model. Because in many cases there are schools that are under-enrolled - so they have classrooms that are unoccupied - and by doing a little bit of work around licensing and changing the structure of the school, they can ensure that kids at all ages in their community from 3 years old to 5 years old, and then from 5 years old to 10 or 11 are served by that elementary school. And I think that's a model that could be emulated in many parts of the state and would go a long way towards solving this problem because there's a significant investment that a business owner has to make in order to secure a space, make the changes in that space before they can open their doors and serve the first child. There are existing buildings - schools - that can solve that problem very easily, but it requires a lot of collaboration and cooperation between schools, cities, and in some cases those aren't easy collaborations to make. [00:18:25] Crystal Fincher: Definitely, but it does sound promising - obviously, with the review that it received from when it was happening. Is that still happening? [00:18:34] Dr. Stephan Blanford: Oh yeah, yeah. I was having a conversation with a parent the other day that was talking about the fact that she was able to get childcare and it was just down the street at her local school here in Seattle. And she was just gushing about how important it was and how much it helped her family to be able to have that accessibility and availability so close to their home. And when she got done, I said - Yeah, I was on the School Board, I voted for that, I helped to champion that. And she was really grateful. And it made me very proud because that was a contentious issue - not everybody on the School Board was supportive of that notion. But I know that collaborations between sectors like the early learning sector and the K-12 sector - they go a long way towards addressing some of these very pernicious issues that we've been grappling with for years, like our opportunity gaps, that Black and Brown kids stand to benefit, particularly if those collaborations are set up in the schools that they normally attend. [00:19:42] Crystal Fincher: Absolutely. Now we also are hearing a lot about school closures right now, about coming deficits, about structural deficits in education. Are these types of partnerships things that can help that kind of situation? [00:19:59] Dr. Stephan Blanford: Absolutely, absolutely. I think you have hit the nail on the head in that - I hear those stories and I'm really glad that I'm not a School Board director anymore and have to grapple with the declining enrollments that we're starting to see in Seattle and many other school districts. But there's an opportunity there to address the childcare crisis while those schools are going through the challenges that they're going with finance and declining enrollments. I think there's a great opportunity to take some of those classrooms and be very intentional about making them childcare settings. And there's always the possibility that we can be building new childcare settings in communities - and in the short-term, we can redeploy empty classrooms in schools to serve that challenge while we're building those settings 'cause eventually the kids are gonna come back. We know that our enrollments go up and then they go down. And at some point those classrooms are gonna need to be filled by K-5 students. But during that time where we have empty classrooms, why not redeploy them in order to solve the childcare crisis that we are in right now? [00:21:20] Crystal Fincher: Absolutely. I think some other things I've heard talked about were challenges with zoning in some areas, challenges with opening up - being allowed to open in certain areas - obviously, in Downtown Seattle and several downtowns who've experienced a lot of growth and the availability of childcare and childcare centers has not grown with them, especially in some of those concentrated areas where it's harder to get real estate, afford a lease, find space. What can be done in that area? Is that something worth addressing and taking on? [00:21:57] Dr. Stephan Blanford: Yeah, I think so. While I was on the School Board - and I was campaigning 10 years ago, so I've been done with my School Board service for about 6 years - and there was a real push to try to make Downtown more of a living neighborhood and involving having an elementary school being based there, increasing the number of childcare settings. And in many cases, it didn't really pencil out - we have a number of families that are choosing to live in the Downtown area, but not at sufficient numbers to warrant the opening of an elementary school. I don't know if that has changed in the six years that I've been off the board, but we need to make decisions that are based on the data that we have and not use childcare and K-12 as a driver to create that neighborhood. Seattle Public Schools didn't have the luxury of investing, hoping that kids were gonna come. We needed to be sure that kids were already there before we tried to deploy a childcare setting or a K-12 setting there. But the question that you ask, which I think is an important one, has to do with licensing and changing settings to be able to allow children to be served in those settings. And that's a partnership between the City, which can do a lot of the licensing, the state and the school districts in order to work in collaboration to ensure that the spaces are conducive to learning and the safety of the kids that are going to be put there. [00:23:41] Crystal Fincher: And is there anything within the private sector that employers, especially larger employers, can do to help their employees afford and access childcare? [00:23:53] Dr. Stephan Blanford: Yes, and many, many employers are starting to do that - either by placing a childcare setting inside of their buildings. And I think in particular, given the fact that there's so many vacancies in office space Downtown - if I were an employer and I was trying to one, get my staff back into the office, and two, help to drive the economy by getting people back to work - I would seriously consider working with a childcare provider to provide their service inside of my building. I can tell you from my own personal experience that I have employees right now who are very challenged by the notion of coming back to work, being back in the office on a regular basis because of the inaccessibility of childcare. And so if there were a site in our offices that was dedicated childcare, I could imagine that those employees would be excited by that notion. They'd be able to hang out with their kid at lunchtime. They would - the transit or the transportation issues that are associated with taking your kid to childcare and then going into the office - a lot of that would be solved because you'd all be in the same place. I have worked for an organization that had onsite childcare, and I know it was a driver - it was something that helped us to attract talent and retain talent because in many cases, people wanted to be in the same building that their kids were getting their childcare. [00:25:32] Crystal Fincher: Absolutely. Onsite childcare is an elite benefit for employees with families, certainly. So looking - for average people in the community who recognize that this is a problem, that this is an issue, but maybe aren't seeing the urgency from some of their elected officials or from within their community. What can the average person do to help move policy like this forward, to help advocate for what can help? [00:26:04] Dr. Stephan Blanford: Well, it's something that Children's Alliance has been working on for quite a while, so I'm gonna be shameless and plug my organization and say - check us out at childrensalliance.org, and you can lend your voice to the many voices that - we have 7,000 members across the state who are all advocating for childcare. We are reaching out to legislators. I have two legislators on my schedule today that I'll be talking to about this issue. And I think it is critical that those who are concerned about this issue, they're reaching out to their legislators and saying the time for studying this is over - we need to take action on it and demanding that type of action. I think that extends to School Board races - here in Seattle, we have School Board races that are occurring right now. City Council races - every opportunity to reach out to your elected officials and share with them why this is a priority. I know from my own experiences as an elected official, childcare is usually way down on the list of things that people think are important. And as we've discussed today, we're now understanding how central it is to so many aspects of life for families and communities all across the state. And so I encourage your listeners to be very active and not just sit on the sidelines around this critical issue. [00:27:39] Crystal Fincher: Absolutely, that's fantastic advice. And even in the candidate world - we've seen candidates in recent years not be able to run or to have to drop out of races for lack of childcare. It really is something affecting everyone. And it also shines a light on the importance of electing people who understand this issue, who have experience with what it's like to deal with this. And hopefully that helps them to be more invested in making some better policy. So I thank you so much for the time that you've taken to speak with us today - very informative, definitely given us a lot to think about, some things to move forward on, and an outlook for and a pathway to get this thing fixed. So thank you so much for your time, Dr. Stephan Blanford. [00:28:29] Dr. Stephan Blanford: Oh, thank you, Crystal - you ask really good questions and I'm hopeful that we're moving some of your listeners to action. [00:28:37] Crystal Fincher: Absolutely, thank you so much. [00:28:39] Dr. Stephan Blanford: Thank you. [00:28:40] Crystal Fincher: Thank you for listening to Hacks & Wonks, which is produced by Shannon Cheng. You can follow Hacks & Wonks on Twitter @HacksWonks. You can catch Hacks & Wonks on every podcast service and app - just type "Hacks and Wonks" into the search bar. Be sure to subscribe to get the full versions of our Friday week-in-review shows and our Tuesday topical show delivered to your podcast feed. If you like us, leave a review wherever you listen. You can also get a full transcript of this episode and links to the resources referenced in the show at officialhacksandwonks.com and in the podcast episode notes. Thanks for tuning in - talk to you next time.

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On this Tuesday topical show, Crystal welcomes Dr. Stephan Blanford, Executive Director of Children's Alliance, for a wide-ranging conversation on childcare. They delve into the importance of childcare as an economic driver and its societal impacts through preparing kids for success in school and life. A review of the state of childcare in Washington reveals that this critical resource is often out-of-reach for those who need it most and looks at the factors that make it inaccessible and expensive. Crystal and Dr. Blanford then discuss how various stakeholders can make an impact on the issue at all levels of government. As always, a full text transcript of the show is available below and at officialhacksandwonks.com. Follow us on Twitter at @HacksWonks. Find the host, Crystal Fincher, on Twitter at @finchfrii, find Dr. Stephan Blanford at @StephanBlanford and Children's Alliance at @ChildAllianceWA.   Dr. Stephan Blanford As the Executive Director of Children's Alliance, Dr. Stephan Blanford leads a team of committed staff, volunteers and more than 6,000 members, advocating fiercely for the improved outcomes for children in Washington state. As an unapologetic advocate for racial and social justice, Stephan's work has ranged from early learning to college entrance leading small, direct service youth development agencies to multidisciplinary demonstration projects. In 2013, he was elected by the voters of Seattle and served a four-year term on the Seattle School Board, where he received the “Leadership for Equity” award at the conclusion of his term. More recently, the Evergreen Chapter of the American Society of Public Administrators awarded him the “Billy J. Frank Race and Social Justice” award for leadership and advocacy. Extending his work at a national level, he is the board chair of Integrated Schools and serves on the board of Partnership for America's Children, Balance our Tax Code Coalition, and several other progressive organizations. Dr. Blanford holds a Bachelors' degree in Social Justice from Antioch University, a Masters in Public Policy from the Evans School of Governance and Public Policy and a Doctorate from the College of Education at the University of Washington. Resources Children's Alliance   Washington Child Care Collaborative Task Force | Washington State Department of Commerce   2023 KIDS Count Data Book | Annie E. Casey Foundation   “Child care costs more than college in Washington state” by Melissa Santos from Axios   “Report: WA's high cost of child care hits single moms hardest” by Sami West from KUOW   “The Real Costs Of Child Care In America” by Joy Borkholder from InvestigateWest Transcript [00:00:00] Crystal Fincher: Welcome to Hacks & Wonks. I'm Crystal Fincher, and I'm a political consultant and your host. On this show, we talk with policy wonks and political hacks to gather insight into local politics and policy in Washington state through the lens of those doing the work with behind-the-scenes perspectives on what's happening, why it's happening, and what you can do about it. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast to get the full versions of our Friday week-in-review show and our Tuesday topical show delivered to your podcast feed. If you like us, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review wherever you listen to Hacks & Wonks. Full transcripts and resources referenced in the show are always available at officialhacksandwonks.com and in our episode notes. Well today, I am very pleased to welcome to the program Dr. Stephan Blanford, the Executive Director of Children's Alliance. And I wanted to have a conversation today about childcare - how important it is, how unaffordable it has become, and how we fix this - it's so important to so many people. And so I guess I will just start off by asking you, Stephan, why is childcare so important? Why does it matter so much? And what brought you to this work? [00:01:24] Dr. Stephan Blanford: Interestingly, I have a background in education - I served as, I was elected and served for a term on the School Board in Seattle. And also my doctoral work was in K-12. And there's a tight correlation between kids having experience in high-quality early learning settings and them doing well in K-12 settings. And so if you are interested in increasing achievement in the K-12 setting - and in particular, if you're interested in addressing the opportunity gaps, the racial opportunity gaps that affect so many children - you have to prioritize early learning and high-quality childcare in order to achieve that goal. And so that's something that I've been passionate about since - in particular - since my young child was of an age where she was getting into childcare. And I learned a lot about it and then have had a passion to try to have all kids have the type of experience that she had. [00:02:29] Crystal Fincher: Certainly, and I certainly have had my own experiences with childcare with my son, who is now definitely much older than childcare age right now. What do you say to people who say - maybe are an employer - what does childcare have to do with me? Why is this something we should be worried about as a community and as a society? [00:02:51] Dr. Stephan Blanford: Yeah, that's a great question. Because in many parts of the state - Seattle in particular, but many parts of the state - we're one of the most childless cities in the United States. So lots of people don't have that type of experience where they're looking for childcare, where they even know someone that is seeking out childcare. But it is such an economic driver. And so many of the negative outcomes that we see in society - in all parts of the state and in all parts of the nation - are correlated with kids not doing well in school and then not being successful in life. And so I tell people all the time, whether you are a grandparent that whose kids are no longer in school or a business owner or whatever, there's a huge implication on your life by the access or lack of access to childcare. [00:03:43] Crystal Fincher: Well, speaking of access - what is the state right now? We hear that it's unaffordable, we hear that it's hard to come by. Is that true? [00:03:53] Dr. Stephan Blanford: Yes, it is. In many parts of the state, there are families that have to drive great distances in order to find childcare. We call them childcare deserts, where there's such a limited supply of childcare that families are just giving up on that. And in many cases, it affects women - because obviously women are, who would normally be in the workforce are having to make really tough decisions and go back to taking care of kids at home where they would prefer to be out in the workforce and helping to support their families. So it has huge implications, whether you're in one of those childcare deserts or even if you're in a more populated part of the state - because that inability to find any childcare and more importantly to find high-quality childcare has severe implications for families and communities at large. [00:04:50] Crystal Fincher: Why is it so hard to find? [00:04:52] Dr. Stephan Blanford: There's a great number of complex factors that lead to the fact that the supply is reduced. The fact that when I sent my kid to childcare - I was also in school in a graduate program - and I was paying more in childcare costs than I was paying for tuition at that time. And that has not improved over the 10 years since I graduated from graduate school. That hasn't changed - where the cost of tuition at the University of Washington is lower than the average cost of childcare in most parts of the state right now. And so - mine is a middle-class family - if you're a low-income family, then the economics of that just do not pan out. And so we are coming to realize that childcare is a public good - it's a public benefit in the same way that K-12 education benefits the community as well as it does the individual child. But we don't have a mechanism by which we can support childcare centers so they can provide this critical service. And if I could add one more thing that I think is really important and complicates this matter, many of the childcare providers in Washington State and around the country are Black and Brown women. And for some unknown reason that has a lot to do with race and racism, they are undercompensated. It is the third lowest paid profession in Washington State right now. And when we think about the importance and the change in trajectory for kids that having access to high-quality childcare can have, it's unconscionable that that would be the third lowest paid profession. You would think that it would be way up there with doctors and other critical professions - it would be compensated at a rate that is commensurate with its importance in society - but for some reason it is not. [00:06:51] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, absolutely. And you brought up a great point. It is more expensive to pay for childcare than it is to pay for college, which is really saying something with the inflation that we've seen in higher education prices and along with childcare costs. So in this situation, how is it that costs are so high yet compensation for workers is still so low? [00:07:18] Dr. Stephan Blanford: Well, there's a big component of it that has to do with ratios. In most childcare centers that are licensed, you have to have a certain number of adults for a certain number of children. And in particular, kids that are 0-3 years old - they require an even more robust ratio to ensure that the kids are safe during that time that they are away from their parents. And so that has a lot of bearing on the cost - as well as a licensed center has to have exits, has to have lots of equipment in the center, has to be safe and obviously secure so kids aren't getting out and getting out into the street or whatever. And all of those costs are borne by the childcare provider, usually a business person who is trying to establish a center that has all the safety measures in place and the appropriate staffing ratios to ensure that kids are safe and learning while they're in their care. And that all of those things together lend themselves to it being a pretty expensive enterprise. [00:08:27] Crystal Fincher: Now, what does it mean - for a family and for a community - for childcare to be this expensive? [00:08:34] Dr. Stephan Blanford: Well, we spend a lot of time at Children's Alliance advocating that there is a role that the state government has to play in subsidizing the cost. Because the reality right now is - for low-income families who cannot afford those expensive costs that we've been talking about, that means that their kids don't have access to childcare at all. Or they have access to very low-quality childcare - we're talking about being placed in front of a TV and spending eight hours a day, not engaging in that way - and those are pretty significant, have long term consequences for young children. We believe that there is a role that the state government has to play. It has funded the Fair Start for Kids Act in 2021, which is driving about a billion dollars into the sector. And that's a start, but it is by no means the solution to the problem. So we will continue to advocate for improvements and increased funding to make it more affordable for families - middle- and low-income families - to be able to afford childcare, and also provide support for the providers who are trying to provide the service. [00:09:49] Crystal Fincher: So, you talk about how it is so challenging for the families to afford it. It sounds like the families who most stand to benefit from high-quality childcare, and who we need to make sure have access, are the ones having the hardest time affording and accessing it. Is that how you see it? [00:10:09] Dr. Stephan Blanford: That is exactly correct. Yes, that is exactly correct. And so the Fair Start for Kids Act that was passed in 2021 has gone a long way towards making it more affordable, but we don't have enough supply in Washington state. And that lack of supply is impeding the ability of the legislation to provide childcare. Ultimately, if you're a childcare provider and there are subsidies that are available, you're still trying to figure out ways to make sure that all the families in your community are getting childcare. And if you are constrained by the fact that you're only licensed to take care of 15 or 20 or 50 kids, then if there are a 100 kids standing outside your door waiting to get in, then you have to make some difficult choices. And in many cases, the families of those children - those hundred that are stuck outside - they then have to make difficult choices, which include someone staying at home so that there's someone to take care of the children. [00:11:15] Crystal Fincher: Which again, impacts a family's ability to be economically mobile, to participate fully in our economy, to be able to advance in the workplace. Childcare - for people with kids, communities with kids - is so key to just everybody's ability to function and participate in our society, basically. [00:11:40] Dr. Stephan Blanford: Right. And it has disproportionate impacts, as I've shared before, on women and their participation in the workforce. There's a study out of Washington State University that says that the gains that have been made in women's participation in the workforce in Washington State have been totally eroded by the fact that childcare is so inaccessible. Women who have decided that they want to participate in the workforce and have made that move and have gotten the training necessary to be able to participate in the workforce - those gains have been eroded by the fact that there is no childcare. And so we're trying to bring that data to legislators and say that we are at a time now where there's need for significant intervention and investment in the childcare sector to ensure that women can participate and children can be served. [00:12:37] Crystal Fincher: So you talk about there being this shortage and the wages being so low. How do we impact this shortage of childcare workers and pay them a living wage? [00:12:52] Dr. Stephan Blanford: Well, it has been nice to see - as someone who's kind of a grizzled veteran of advocacy around childcare and other issues - it's been nice to see a coalition of people who are now concerned, who now see the implications of this situation that we're in. So now there are business leaders, governmental leaders who never would have been talking about childcare 5 years ago, 10 years ago. And they now know that it is critically important to the economies of their communities, to business interests, to just every aspect of society. We can't really restart the economy to the degree that it needs to be restarted without a significant investment in accessibility and availability of childcare in the state. It just won't happen. And what it portends - our inaction - is that more and more populations are gonna be disproportionately impacted by that inaction. [00:14:02] Crystal Fincher: So what else is needed to help address both the affordability and the issues on the business owner's side - like the regulations, which sound like they're necessary to protect kids - and the costs involved? [00:14:18] Dr. Stephan Blanford: I believe that at some point we're going to have to have a statewide conversation about childcare. And my hope is that that will lead to more significant legislation. And if not legislation, a referendum that is passed or an initiative that is passed by the citizens of the state to tax themselves to be able to afford childcare for anyone who needs it. There are other states that are playing around with the idea of universal pre-K - making sure that every child in the state has access, which means a significant investment in childcare - there's an argument that says that it's a public good and should be funded in the same way that public education is funded. And the economics of it - there's a study that says that for every dollar invested in childcare, there's a $17 return to the economy of the jurisdiction that makes that investment, which is a significant bargain and helps to address some of the biggest challenges that we face around opportunity gaps - racial and economic opportunity gaps. So my hope is that there - we'll continue to have these conversations and get to the point where the voters of the state take this issue up. I believe it will pass. I think enough people are connected to it and understand that they will benefit. And my hope is that we'll see that in the short-term because it's having detrimental impacts right now for families and communities all across the state. [00:16:07] Crystal Fincher: It absolutely is having detrimental impacts. Barring a statewide initiative being passed - and that's a great idea - what can cities, counties, regions do to try and address this in their own areas? [00:16:27] Dr. Stephan Blanford: A great question. So I mentioned the fact that I served as a School Board director here in Seattle. And during that time, we were able to create a partnership between Seattle Public Schools and the City of Seattle where there were significant investments and collaboration between the two sectors - the K-12 sector and the early learning sector - to actually have childcare centers based in some of our elementary schools that were under-enrolled. Kids would move directly from the early learning part of the school into the K-12 sector. And there was a national organization that reviewed that collaboration and gave it its highest rating - saying all states in the nation should emulate that type of a model. Because in many cases there are schools that are under-enrolled - so they have classrooms that are unoccupied - and by doing a little bit of work around licensing and changing the structure of the school, they can ensure that kids at all ages in their community from 3 years old to 5 years old, and then from 5 years old to 10 or 11 are served by that elementary school. And I think that's a model that could be emulated in many parts of the state and would go a long way towards solving this problem because there's a significant investment that a business owner has to make in order to secure a space, make the changes in that space before they can open their doors and serve the first child. There are existing buildings - schools - that can solve that problem very easily, but it requires a lot of collaboration and cooperation between schools, cities, and in some cases those aren't easy collaborations to make. [00:18:25] Crystal Fincher: Definitely, but it does sound promising - obviously, with the review that it received from when it was happening. Is that still happening? [00:18:34] Dr. Stephan Blanford: Oh yeah, yeah. I was having a conversation with a parent the other day that was talking about the fact that she was able to get childcare and it was just down the street at her local school here in Seattle. And she was just gushing about how important it was and how much it helped her family to be able to have that accessibility and availability so close to their home. And when she got done, I said - Yeah, I was on the School Board, I voted for that, I helped to champion that. And she was really grateful. And it made me very proud because that was a contentious issue - not everybody on the School Board was supportive of that notion. But I know that collaborations between sectors like the early learning sector and the K-12 sector - they go a long way towards addressing some of these very pernicious issues that we've been grappling with for years, like our opportunity gaps, that Black and Brown kids stand to benefit, particularly if those collaborations are set up in the schools that they normally attend. [00:19:42] Crystal Fincher: Absolutely. Now we also are hearing a lot about school closures right now, about coming deficits, about structural deficits in education. Are these types of partnerships things that can help that kind of situation? [00:19:59] Dr. Stephan Blanford: Absolutely, absolutely. I think you have hit the nail on the head in that - I hear those stories and I'm really glad that I'm not a School Board director anymore and have to grapple with the declining enrollments that we're starting to see in Seattle and many other school districts. But there's an opportunity there to address the childcare crisis while those schools are going through the challenges that they're going with finance and declining enrollments. I think there's a great opportunity to take some of those classrooms and be very intentional about making them childcare settings. And there's always the possibility that we can be building new childcare settings in communities - and in the short-term, we can redeploy empty classrooms in schools to serve that challenge while we're building those settings 'cause eventually the kids are gonna come back. We know that our enrollments go up and then they go down. And at some point those classrooms are gonna need to be filled by K-5 students. But during that time where we have empty classrooms, why not redeploy them in order to solve the childcare crisis that we are in right now? [00:21:20] Crystal Fincher: Absolutely. I think some other things I've heard talked about were challenges with zoning in some areas, challenges with opening up - being allowed to open in certain areas - obviously, in Downtown Seattle and several downtowns who've experienced a lot of growth and the availability of childcare and childcare centers has not grown with them, especially in some of those concentrated areas where it's harder to get real estate, afford a lease, find space. What can be done in that area? Is that something worth addressing and taking on? [00:21:57] Dr. Stephan Blanford: Yeah, I think so. While I was on the School Board - and I was campaigning 10 years ago, so I've been done with my School Board service for about 6 years - and there was a real push to try to make Downtown more of a living neighborhood and involving having an elementary school being based there, increasing the number of childcare settings. And in many cases, it didn't really pencil out - we have a number of families that are choosing to live in the Downtown area, but not at sufficient numbers to warrant the opening of an elementary school. I don't know if that has changed in the six years that I've been off the board, but we need to make decisions that are based on the data that we have and not use childcare and K-12 as a driver to create that neighborhood. Seattle Public Schools didn't have the luxury of investing, hoping that kids were gonna come. We needed to be sure that kids were already there before we tried to deploy a childcare setting or a K-12 setting there. But the question that you ask, which I think is an important one, has to do with licensing and changing settings to be able to allow children to be served in those settings. And that's a partnership between the City, which can do a lot of the licensing, the state and the school districts in order to work in collaboration to ensure that the spaces are conducive to learning and the safety of the kids that are going to be put there. [00:23:41] Crystal Fincher: And is there anything within the private sector that employers, especially larger employers, can do to help their employees afford and access childcare? [00:23:53] Dr. Stephan Blanford: Yes, and many, many employers are starting to do that - either by placing a childcare setting inside of their buildings. And I think in particular, given the fact that there's so many vacancies in office space Downtown - if I were an employer and I was trying to one, get my staff back into the office, and two, help to drive the economy by getting people back to work - I would seriously consider working with a childcare provider to provide their service inside of my building. I can tell you from my own personal experience that I have employees right now who are very challenged by the notion of coming back to work, being back in the office on a regular basis because of the inaccessibility of childcare. And so if there were a site in our offices that was dedicated childcare, I could imagine that those employees would be excited by that notion. They'd be able to hang out with their kid at lunchtime. They would - the transit or the transportation issues that are associated with taking your kid to childcare and then going into the office - a lot of that would be solved because you'd all be in the same place. I have worked for an organization that had onsite childcare, and I know it was a driver - it was something that helped us to attract talent and retain talent because in many cases, people wanted to be in the same building that their kids were getting their childcare. [00:25:32] Crystal Fincher: Absolutely. Onsite childcare is an elite benefit for employees with families, certainly. So looking - for average people in the community who recognize that this is a problem, that this is an issue, but maybe aren't seeing the urgency from some of their elected officials or from within their community. What can the average person do to help move policy like this forward, to help advocate for what can help? [00:26:04] Dr. Stephan Blanford: Well, it's something that Children's Alliance has been working on for quite a while, so I'm gonna be shameless and plug my organization and say - check us out at childrensalliance.org, and you can lend your voice to the many voices that - we have 7,000 members across the state who are all advocating for childcare. We are reaching out to legislators. I have two legislators on my schedule today that I'll be talking to about this issue. And I think it is critical that those who are concerned about this issue, they're reaching out to their legislators and saying the time for studying this is over - we need to take action on it and demanding that type of action. I think that extends to School Board races - here in Seattle, we have School Board races that are occurring right now. City Council races - every opportunity to reach out to your elected officials and share with them why this is a priority. I know from my own experiences as an elected official, childcare is usually way down on the list of things that people think are important. And as we've discussed today, we're now understanding how central it is to so many aspects of life for families and communities all across the state. And so I encourage your listeners to be very active and not just sit on the sidelines around this critical issue. [00:27:39] Crystal Fincher: Absolutely, that's fantastic advice. And even in the candidate world - we've seen candidates in recent years not be able to run or to have to drop out of races for lack of childcare. It really is something affecting everyone. And it also shines a light on the importance of electing people who understand this issue, who have experience with what it's like to deal with this. And hopefully that helps them to be more invested in making some better policy. So I thank you so much for the time that you've taken to speak with us today - very informative, definitely given us a lot to think about, some things to move forward on, and an outlook for and a pathway to get this thing fixed. So thank you so much for your time, Dr. Stephan Blanford. [00:28:29] Dr. Stephan Blanford: Oh, thank you, Crystal - you ask really good questions and I'm hopeful that we're moving some of your listeners to action. [00:28:37] Crystal Fincher: Absolutely, thank you so much. [00:28:39] Dr. Stephan Blanford: Thank you. 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Fr. Patrick preached this homily on August 16, 2023 at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church in Wadsworth, OH. The readings are from Dt 34:1-12, Ps 66:1-3a, 5 and 8, 16-17 & Mt 18:15-20.

In 2001, Ed Nahhat had the idea to bring William Shakespeare's classic stories to Royal Oak.   It began a tradition that has survived everything from 9/11 to a global pandemic.    Ed joins us today to talk about how it started, as well as this year's plays and programs.This year's "preseason" event will be called "A Labor of Love," at the Royal Oak Farmers Market on June 29th.  It's a "meet the cast event" where even small donations can get you in to this "preseason cast party."  The name is a takeoff on "Love's Labor Lost," the play the group will be doing this summer.   They are going to set it in the 1980's on a college campus.  So the fashion will be tremendous at this year's show.  It will be direced by Craig Ester of Break the Chain Detroit.Shakespeare Royal Oak is, as always, involved with two youth programs this summer.   Their teen ensmeble show, a two week program for high school students, will be "A Winter's Tale."   The teens are responsible for the entire show.Ed also does "Kids Act" - a program for elementary school students.  This is more along the traditional "recital" model, and includes "safe sword fights."We ask Ed what he does outside Shakespeare Royal Oak.   He's an avid sailer when he's not at his day job as an attorney with the Kemp Klein Law Firm.Links:Shakespeare Royal Oak Website: https://shakespeareroyaloak.com/Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/shakespeareroyaloak/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shakespeareroyaloak/Connect with our hosts:Trish Carruth from The Personal Jeweler - https://www.thepersonaljeweler.com/Jon Gay from JAG in Detroit Podcasts - http://www.jagindetroit.com/Lisa Bibbee from Keller Williams - http://soldbylisab.com/

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Does candy make your kids act crazy?   For most adults, we assume so. We blame the candy, cupcakes, or sugar-coated culprit for being the root of our child's behavioral problems. But what data do you have to support this? Observationally and anecdotally, most moms I speak to could come up with a laundry list of examples. So does it surprise you that studies looking at the association between sugar intake and hyperactivity are considered "case closed?" With the exception of a small subset of children who have diagnoses ADHD, the research shows that sugar is NOT to blame for patterns of poor behavior in kids. Conversely, we see that often it is the perception of sugar as the problem that leads parents to defer accountability on what they can control (being what, when, and where a child is offered a variety of meals and snacks, including those that are sugar-sweetened). To pinpoint the problem AND have a more accurate depiction of what you can do about it, this episode is going to force you to pivot with pointers on how to problem solve the ever-so-common concern of "sugar highs," right before Halloween gets here.

Today is an amazing day to be a conservative or Pro-Life. Roe vs Wade has been thrown out! Praise God! I give my thoughts on that whole situation and in regards to the Antifa riots that followed the decision. Next up unfortunately Biden has signed a anti gun bill that will affect those who wish to buy a gun who are under 21. Also it will bolster "Red Flag laws". Worst yet theres an even more crazier anti gun bill coming down the pipe called the "Protect our Kids Act", which will prevent anyone under 21 from buying a rifle or a shotgun that holds more than 5 rounds at a time. it also makes any gun magazine that holds over 15 rounds illegal to own! I pray it doesn't go through!      --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theconservativenerd/support

Parenting strategies sound great when things are going well, but what about when the train comes off the tracks and your kids are seriously acting out? Kimball Lewis is the CEO of Empowering Parents, the home of the Total Transformation Program. He uses his experience with kids and teens who are acting out in really frustrating ways to give us lots of simple tips on how to help us gain back connection in our relationship with our children. The beautiful goal of these tips is to have a relationship with our kids where we not only love them, but we also LIKE them and enjoy being with them. RELATED EPISODES Authoritative Parenting / Arguably the most EFFECTIVE Parenting Style Holding Boundaries / Discipline Pt. 1 Systems and Values for Easier Days and Stronger Family Connections Parenting with Unconditional Love LINKS WE MENTIONED https://www.empoweringparents.com Thank you for the kind reviews! We appreciate them so much. Here is how to leave a review for us on iTunes: Open Find the Magic in the podcast app Scroll to the bottom of the page Click on write a review Tap the stars to rate us and then write us some feedback:) Hit SEND Review of the week from Cass McCaffree! Really beneficial to my motherhood …they have beautiful tips and insights about motherhood that I really appreciate. On top of that, I implemented a lot of tips from the magic morning on waking up early and I've really enjoyed doing that so far! I'd recommend this podcast to any mother who just wants to do the best they can. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/findthemagic/support

Canary Cry News Talk #495 - 06.10.2022 INSURRECTION RITUALS Rioters Rioting, NASA Dark Energy, Days of Noah LINKTREE: CanaryCry.Party SHOW NOTES: CanaryCryNewsTalk.com CLIP CHANNEL: CanaryCry.Tube SUPPLY DROP: CanaryCrySupplyDrop.com SUPPORT: CanaryCryRadio.com/Support MEET UPS: CanaryCryMeetUps.com Basil's other podcast: ravel Gonz' New Youtube: Facelikethesun Resurrection Gonz' Video Archive: Facelikethesun.Live App Made by Canary Cry Producer: Truther Dating App   LEAD/JAN 6 5:23 V / 3:01 P Clip: Takeaways from Day 1 of Jan 6 Hearings (CNN) → Report by Pamela Brown, CNN Anchor/Sr. Washington Correspondent   Trump and allies having meltdown on Truth Social (Daily Beast) Republican Kelley arrested for Jan 6 connection (Forbes)   INTRO (M-W-F) 33:42 V / 31:10 P B&G Update, V4V/Exec./Asso./Support   FLIPPY 38:22 V / 36:00 P Nuclear waste sorting Robot Arm (PEI)   [Party Pitch/Ravel/CCClips/text alerts] 46:59 V / 44:37 P   GUN CONTROL 49:15 V / 46:53 P → Multiple victims reported in Mass Shooting, Maryland (The Hill) Protecting our Kids Act passes, here's what's in it (MSN/KTLA) → Bill HR 7910 (Gov Info)   BEAST SYSTEM 1:03:52 V / 1:01:30 P Apple just killed the password for good (Wired)   [TREASURE/SPEAKPIPE/BYE YOUTUBE] 1:18:24 V / 1:16:02 P   COVID/WACCINE 1:44:45 V / 1:42:23 P ABC News Analysis; Breakthrough Covid, deaths, rise amidst push for boosters (ABC) → Biden officials ending test requirements for International travel (The Hill) → WHO experts agree lab leak theory needs more investigation (CBC) (Response to Judicial Watch?)   PANDEMIC SPECIAL/TICK JINGLE 2:15:49 V /  Heartland virus, a new tick-borne disease spreading through the Mid/South US (Insider)  → Graphene, alternative to chemicals to repel mosquito bites (2019, NIH)   MONKEYPOX 2:14:38 V / 2:12:16 P Monkeypox symptoms can mimic STDs and be misdiagnosed (UPI.com) Some monkeypox patients also have sexually transmitted diseases, CDC says (cnbc.com)   [TALENT] 2:32:57 V / 2:30:35 P   SPACE/SCIENCE IS TRUTH 2:55:14 V / 2:52:52 P NASA's UAP team to provide scientific research (J-Post) [Not Alien…helps Jewish/Alien thesis] NASA boss: ‘I believe ET is real' (Telegraph/MSN) -“Nazi UFOs” Wikipedia -David Spergel homepage, “Dark Energy” (Princeton.edu)   NEPHILIM UPDATE 3:17:24 V / 3:15:02 P Footage, Texas zoo show mysterious Unidentified Amarillo Object (CHRON)   [TIME/OUTRO] 3:21:47 V / 3:19:25 P   EPISODE 495 WAS PRODUCED BY… Executive Producers Teresa Y**   Producers Dame Sarah of the Shadows, Dame Lady Knight Little Wing, Dustin B, Runksmash, Steven D, Arnold W, MORV, James M, Sandra K, Sir JC Knight of the Technosquatch, LX Protocol V2, James M, Amanda M, JonathanF, Michael M, Darrin S, Gail M, Veronica D, Sir Scott Knight of Truth, Sir Casey the Shield Knight, Sir James Knight and Servant of the Lion of Judah   AUDIO PRODUCTION (Jingles, Iso, Music): JonathanF    ART PRODUCTION (Drawing, Painting, Graphics): Dame Allie of the Skillet Nation, Sir Dove Knight of Rusbeltia   CONTENT PRODUCTION (Microfiction etc.): Runksmash: Abby Synth sits on Rooster's back, observing the farm and the animals. She sees a tall bipedal animal standing by the big box and a strange turtle with round legs approaching him, alarmingly out of it climbs a shorter biped and then several others.   Akyalynn: There's a longing in my Heart, I want so much more. I pray to my Master, Lord please open the door. Show me the light through this world of sin, lead the way & and I will follow You in. You are the Way, the Truth & the Life. The only One who carried my strife. I love You Jesus!    CLIP PRODUCER Emsworth, FaeLivrin, Epsilon   Timestamps: Mondays: Jackie U Wednesdays: Jade Bouncerson Fridays: Christine C   ADDITIONAL STORIES: …more Jan 6/polyticks… → US Cap riot hearing shows Trump allies, daughter rejected fraud claims (Reuters) → Trump throws Ivanka under the bus after her response (DailyMail) → Rep. Jim Jordan claims FBI is 'purging' employees with conservative viewpoints (DailyMail)  → How Jared Kushner Washed His Hands of Donald Trump Before Jan. 6 (Dnyuz) → Brazil's Bolsonaro casts doubt on Biden's 2020 election win ahead of meeting him (Reuters)  → Ginny Thomas emails show, 29 lawmakers contacted to attempt overturn elections (Wapo) World Bank warns 1970's style stagflation (Wapo) Putin terrifying war games Amphibious Soldiers firing underwater (Mirror UK) NASA to form scientific team to study UAP (Reuters) UK's Prince Williams spotted selling homeless magazine on the streets of London (Reuters) AI reveals a never-before described 3D structure in rotavirus spike protein (PhysOrg)  Putin Calls Himself A Modern "Peter The Great" Amid Ukraine War (NDTV)  → Peter The Great (Britannica) Obama-Biden advisor suggests surrendering US sovereignty to a world government (Life Site) $800 for this Raspberry pi controlled Robot Arm Humanoid robot soldiers that come alive, used to train paratroopers (DailyMail)

Animal lives are protected but not children.  We are talking about assault rifles right. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Plus, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) says he's optimistic about the chances for a gun-control measure in the Senate, Dallas police are investigating after a woman died last month while in police custody, and Dallas is doing more to help older property owners deal with high property taxes. KRLD All Local - June 9, 2022

Today the House of Representatives will vote on HR-7910/Protecting Our Kids Act" which doesn't do anything to protect kids but is yet another attempt to chip away at our 2nd Amendment rights. H.R.7910 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Protecting Our Kids Act | Congress.gov | Library of CongressJim Hanson on Twitter: "I have abandoned my support of #2A I now back all of these un-Constitutional & ineffective policies Because #MatthewMcConaughey put on serious person glasses & read a prepared speech https://t.co/utJjwfKONP" / TwitterThomas Massie on Twitter: "The gun control bill today will ban magazines that hold more than 15 rounds. Last night, the chairman of the rules committee said this would prevent shootings like the one at Virginia Tech. I reminded him the shooter carried 17 magazines… none of them held more than 15 rounds." / TwitterJack Posobiec

House Democrats propose a bill they claim will protect our kids from school shootings. Will this bill actually reduce criminal use of firearms? Will it actually protect kids in schools and reduce school shootings? Join Ryan as we dissect the text of the bill and see EXACTLY what the Democrats are proposing. Ryan's Questions You Should Ask About This Legislation: Skip to 1:09:48 Ryan's Legislative Efficacy & Media Accuracy Ratings: Skip to 1:15:32 Ryan's Thoughts & Takeaways: Skip to 1:16:58 Bill Text: https://www.congress.gov/117/bills/hr7910/BILLS-117hr7910rh.pdf Become a member and get backstage access on our Discord channels: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/betweentheliars Become a patron for backstage access PLUS exclusive livestreams: https://www.patreon.com/betweentheliars You can find the livestream of this episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGtsU1I_nWg We livestream our recordings Saturdays at 12 pm central--Come hang out! You can join from our Youtube Channel, Facebook Page, or Twitch Stream. Follow us on our social medias to stay up to date! Instagram: @between_the_liars https://www.instagram.com/between_the_liars/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pantsonf1re Twitter: @betweentheliars

House Democrats propose a bill they claim will protect our kids from school shootings. Will this bill actually reduce criminal use of firearms? Will it actually protect kids in schools and reduce school shootings? Join Ryan as we dissect the text of the bill and see EXACTLY what the Democrats are proposing. Ryan's Questions You Should Ask About This Legislation: Skip to 1:09:48 Ryan's Legislative Efficacy & Media Accuracy Ratings: Skip to 1:15:32 Ryan's Thoughts & Takeaways: Skip to 1:16:58 Bill Text: https://www.congress.gov/117/bills/hr7910/BILLS-117hr7910rh.pdf Become a member and get backstage access on our Discord channels: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/betweentheliars Become a patron for backstage access PLUS exclusive livestreams: https://www.patreon.com/betweentheliars You can find the livestream of this episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGtsU1I_nWg We livestream our recordings Saturdays at 12 pm central--Come hang out! You can join from our Youtube Channel, Facebook Page, or Twitch Stream. Follow us on our social medias to stay up to date! Instagram: @between_the_liars https://www.instagram.com/between_the_liars/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pantsonf1re Twitter: @betweentheliars

6.3.2022 #rolandmartinunfiltered: May Jobs & U.S. Economy, Uvalde Funerals, Protect Our Kids Act, Buffalo 911 Dispatcher Fired Despite fears of a slowing economy, the U.S. added 390,000 new jobs in May, and Biden praises his administration for reviving the economy. But is it revived for everyone? We'll take a look at the number with an economist. And talk about Biden's plan to tackle inflation. The state of Maryland is three days into its ghost gun ban, and the mayor of Baltimore is suing a ghost gun manufacturer. The Protect Our Kids Act aimed and stricter gun laws will be heading to the house floor sometime next week. Two more funerals today in Uvalde, Texas. Ya'll remember that Buffalo, New York, 9-1-1 dispatcher who hung up on a Tops employee calling for help during the mass shooting? Well, that dispatcher no longer has a job.   A white South Carolina man randomly shoots at passing cars, killing a black 8-year-old from New Hampshire on vacation with his family. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division has been busy getting indictments and working out plea deals. We'll tell you about DOJ's latest victories. In our Education Matters segment, a California organization want to increase the number of black men heading to college, staying in, and graduating. Support #RolandMartinUnfiltered and #BlackStarNetwork via the Cash App ☛ https://cash.app/$rmunfiltered PayPal ☛ https://www.paypal.me/rmartinunfiltered Venmo ☛https://venmo.com/rmunfiltered Zelle ☛ roland@rolandsmartin.com Annual or monthly recurring #BringTheFunk Fan Club membership via paypal ☛ https://rolandsmartin.com/rmu-paypal/ Download the #BlackStarNetwork app on iOS, AppleTV, Android, Android TV, Roku, FireTV, SamsungTV and XBox

Its a New Sibling and you fear the older sibling may not to be to share. well In this episode i added a few tips tp add you. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/asknannyq/support

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Struggling with what to do when your child acts out, or why they are? This guest interview with Kimball Lewis is truly eye-opening. Learn why our kids act out, how to course correct, and how to keep it from happening to begin with. 

Meredith's daughter has an incident at school that is a bit...challenging. The good news is that Meredith and her mother-in-law came together in coming up with the plan to deal with it, strengthening their relationship.

Amy Korte of the Illinois Policy Institute spoke about the Invest in Kids Act and why it is important that the Illinois General Assembly makes it permanent.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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In this episode, League of Education Voters CEO Lauri Hennessey talks with Washington state Representative Tana Senn from Mercer Island (D-41). They discuss the Fair Start for Kids Act - the comprehensive early learning measure passed by the legislature last session, Rep. Senn's work on gender pay equity and gun control, and more.

With the start of the school year, all eyes are on our state education system, from early learning up through high school.  Brian Callanan of Seattle Channel talks with special guest Dr. Stephan Blanford, former Seattle School Board Director, about the current challenges of early education, the impact of the new "Fair Start for Kids Act,"  the effect of years of churn and turnover for Seattle School Board and Seattle Public Schools' superintendent position, and some advice for current school families and SPS leadership. We'll be back with more city politics analysis with Brian and Kevin Schofield of SCC Insight next week. If you like this podcast, please support us on Patreon! 

If you've ever struggled to keep your cool with your kids, this one's for you. In this episode, peaceful parenting expert Dr. Laura Markham teaches us how to regulate our difficult emotions, stay calm when the kids act out, and create positive connections with our little ones. From toddler tantrums to moody teens, she shares the best methods to help families stay calm and collected through any emotional rollercoaster. 

How do you react when you see other people's kids misbehave in public?  Lindsey called the show with the ultimate solution. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's Childcare Provider Recognition Day. Inslee signs Fair Start for Kids Act

Often our kids act out to communicate with us. In this episode we will work through the best (and worst) ways to react when our kids act out.

General Gross sits down with Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL) to discuss his new bipartisan bill, the Meals on Wheels for Kids Act. Former Minnesota Adjutant General Harry Sieben also joins the podcast to discuss his time serving in the Minnesota Legislature.

We want to answer your parenting questions! Join the Smarter Parenting Club. https://club.smarterparenting.com/ Do you know why your kid acts up? Understanding why they do allows you to intervene and address behaviors beforehand. When our kids act up, we become so focused on the behavior and outcome that we often forget that something happened before the behavior to cause it. Are they tired? Are they worried? Are they hungry? Was someone being mean? Being able to focus on things that happen beforehand and addressing them is incredibly powerful. It sends a message to our child that we care about figuring out what is happening in their life and not just about punishing them. The way to figure out what happened that contributes to a behavior is by using the ABC’s of Behavior. The A stands for antecedent. This is what happened beforehand that contributed to the behavior. There can be multiple antecedents that contribute to specific behavior. The B stands for behavior. This is the behavior your child is doing. This behavior can be good or bad. The C stands for consequence. The consequence is what happens after the behavior. Sometimes the antecedent may be clear, like when their sibling takes their toys. In other situations, it may not be so obvious. An antecedent can happen hours or even days beforehand. There can also be multiple antecedents that contribute to a behavior. The more you can focus on addressing antecedents, the more behavior will decrease. For example, if you know that your child refuses to do their homework when they are hungry, you can easily prevent the issue by making sure they have a snack before beginning. Using the ABC’s of Behavior will make your life easier. In general, it takes less work to address behaviors in the antecedent stage than in the consequence stage. Join the Smarter Parenting Club where we can help you figure out antecedents and how you can address and prevent them. https://club.smarterparenting.com/

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In this safeguarding podcast we discuss with CEO Stephen Balkam some of the work of the American Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI). We also discuss a number of potential and actual US laws that will have an impact on online child safety not just in the US but also around the world: the refresh of Child Online Privacy and Protection Act aka COPPA2, the Children and Media Research Advancement or the CAMERA Act, the Kid’s Internet Design and Safety act or the KIDS Act, and the California Consumer Privacy Act, the CCPA.

eMarketer sales executive Michael Bruckenthal, principal analyst Mark Dolliver and junior analyst Blake Droesch discuss how traditional sports are taking lessons from esports to create a more engaging viewing experience. Then Mark and Blake talk about Apple allowing push notification ads, the details of the KIDS Act bill, how Facebook is changing its digital currency ambitions and how the popularity of streaming services influence its ads.

On episode 205 of the BSP I analyze the new bill that’s being proposed titled KIDS Act which stands for: Kids Internet Design and Safet Act. This proposed bill targets advertising on platforms such as YouTube where it could lead to no more host read ads.   Subscribe to the full audio podcast at http://www.bandrewsays.com   Gear Used This Episode (Affiliate Links): Telefunken TF47: http://bit.ly/39e3l6R Warm Audio WA73-EQ: http://bit.ly/34p34ei Universal Audio x8: http://bit.ly/35skacW Yellowtec m!ka Boom Arm: https://shop.yellowtec.com/epages/Yellowtec.sf/en_US/?ObjectPath=/Shops/Yellowtec/Products/YT3601 Sony MDR7506: https://geni.us/7506   Twitter: @bandrewsays Ask Questions: https://www.askbandrew.com Merch; https://teespring.com/stores/podcastage-store Discord: http://www.podcastage.com/discord   00:00 - Intro   01:06 - New Bill Could Destroy Online Content Creation Bill: https://www.markey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/KIDS%20Act%202020.pdf 02:16 - Findings of The KIDS Act Bill 07:10 - Regullations of The KIDS Act Bill 09:14 - Prohibited Advertising Practices on The KIDS Act Bill 10:05 - Government Funding Videos Through The KIDS Act Bill 10:37 - Thoughts on the Bill 13:06 - No Branded Content? 15:05 - Vague Definition of Directed to Children  18:16 - WYHTS: The Law of Diminishing Returns on Microphones 19:42 - WYHTS: You Own Your Reddit Post’s Copyright 21:40 - WYHTS: We Should Teach Economics in High School 22:48 - WYHTS: Reddit Exploitation & Cringing at Old Reviews 24:53 - WYHTS: SM7B Sounds Better Than the Telefunken TF47 & Toilet Paper Shortage  29:24 - WYHTS: There’s No More Work Ethic! 32:22 - Ask Bandrew 32:50 - Email 1 33:00 - Can I Connect the Samson G-Track Pro to my Camera? Connect Mic to Camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKISKPndaDo 33:45 - Email 2 34:09 - Can I Get Radio Quality Audio Out of the Rodecaster Pro? 36:00 - Voice Submission 36:48 - Can YouTube Grow Forever Or Will The Bubble Burst? 39:58 - Experiment Where There’s No Intro on YouTube 40:40 -  Outro

In conferences and feeling shocked when the teacher says your child is an angel in class? How can this be? Is this the same kid we are talking about you say.  Or maybe you're on the other end, your child is struggling in the classroom setting, and you're just not sure why!  Leah, from Parent Tools (her Instagram handle!) is going to really dive into the why, and then give you some great ideas to help on both ends, for smooth transitions between home and school!  Grab this simple morning routine schedule to print off! -->> Morning Routine Schedule. Are you a teacher or in education? This website blog by Leah is for you!-->> Teacher Talk.

Bullying and social boycott damages the kids on a much deeper level than we can imagine. Social media can prolong, spread and be used to repeat the bullying itself. It seems that before the kids who were bullies were mostly kids who had a low self esteem. Today that is also the case, but children today also have a really big need to control. With all of that, if we add a pedocentric approach to children (putting kids on a pedestal), the kids don't have a sense of boundaries or others. A 2008 study from a book The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement by Jean Twenge and W. Keith Campbell said that 25 percent of the kids have behaviour problems which resemble or stem from narcissism. Some children are born as leaders. It is not a solution to teach them to suppress those inclinations, rather we need to educate them how to use those skills in order to profit everyone. We as human beings have a natural need to control, even the existence of science is in order to control the nature. That need for control is in its essence nor good nor bad, but if we are try to control self and not others, then it becomes good. The first step we can all do to help kids not to bully each other and control each other is to start from self and set an example at home. Educating the kids is at least problem, first we have to start educating the families and come to an agreement on what kind of future we want for our kids.

Donald Trump Jr. continues to behave like he's above the law, our hero, House Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler, tries to do what he can to hold President Trump accountable for the obstruction charges laid out in the Mueller Report, and hold on to your cell phones, because we could be entering a trade war with China. Denise and Lori talk with Sean Carpenter, development consultant whose specialty is in affordable housing, about strategies to make Massachusetts affordable, and in this week's Political Pill, Denise talks about the loophole that makes the selling of children legal. Political PillExcuse me, your loophole is openShow NotesKIDS ActContact Your LegislatorSong Credit: Ikson - Last Summer (Vlog Music No Copyright)Music promoted by Vlog Music No CopyrightVideo Link: youtu.be/rX7kAmlkKMw

State Senator Cristina Castro (D-Elgin) joins the Senate Showcase podcast to talk about Senate Bill 1719, the "KIDS Act", which aims to improve the level of consumer privacy when using electronic devices.

Jefferson Graham weighs in on the latest YouTube fiasco with kids programming on the weekend edition of #TalkingTech.

Should kids be allowed to engage in violent gaming ? Why do some kids act violently while others do not?

Anyone monitoring the recent developments with immigrant children knows the situation right now is dire: a recently announced policy from the Department of Justice is resulting in children being forcibly separated from their parents at the Mexico border. And HHS is reportedly unable to account for nearly 1500 immigrant minors who came to the US unaccompanied. We're joined this week by international human rights lawyer and director of policy for the DC-based nonprofit, Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), Jennifer Podkul, to help us understand what's going on and what we can do about it. We also speak with Gilda Blanco, an organizer for the Seattle Domestic Workers Alliance, about the National Day of Children protest event happening at the US Attorney's office in Seattle on Friday, June 1st. Info and Links: National Day of Action for Children Start: June 01, 2018 • 12:00 PM U.S. Attorney's Office • 700 Stewart Street, Seattle, WA https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/families-belong-together KIND's webpage: https://supportkind.org/media/family-separation-at-the-border/ Jennifer Podkul's FAQ on family separation at the border: https://supportkind.org/media/family-separation-at-the-border/ What the legal process looks like for an immigrant child taken away from his parents: https://supportkind.org/media/what-the-legal-process-looks-like-for-an-immigrant-child-taken-away-from-his-parents/ Legislation: H.R. 2572 – Protect Family Values at the Border Act H.R. 5950/S.2937 – the HELP Separated Children Act H.R. 2043/S. 2468 – Fair Day in Court for Kids Act of 2018 ICE Tukwila office: 206-835-0650 ICE Tacoma office: 253-779-6000 (To bypass the message, press 2 and ask for the Community Relations office.) IMoveon petition directed at Department of Homeland Security director Kirstjen Nielsen to end the separation of parents from their children: https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-secretary-nielsen?source=n.em.mt.p

Biz and Theresa deal with our kids breaking rules and just being generally "sneaky." We thought it would be cute, a rite of passage for all kids, but - surprise - it turns out it's not as fun when it's happening in your own house. Plus, there's something fishy going on with one of Biz's family's pet fish, Theresa's kids delight in the fruits of their of sneakiness, and we talk about infertility with actor, photographer, and all-around amazing woman Tracey B. Wilson, whose video about her own experience is incredibly honest. Share your genius and fail moments! Call 206-350-9485* *Be sure to tell us at the top of your message whether you're leaving a genius moment, a fail, or a rant! Thanks!! Share a personal or commercial message on the show! Subscribe to One Bad Mother in iTunes Join our mailing list!

Guest: Brenda Nixon Guest Brenda Nixon is an author, speaker, and educator. She joins the show to discuss child behavior and offer practical insight into the challenges of child rearing. She shares fascinating research about the nine temperaments children are born with and how they contribute toward personality. The post Your Child’s Temperament: Why Kids Act the Way They Do appeared first on Let's Talk Adoption.

Join in the discussion about the American Heart Association - Fit Kids Act and how it will affect your child.

Join in the discussion about the American Heart Association - Fit Kids Act and how it will affect your child.

Carmela Welte, deputy CEO of the National CASA Association, explains the pending Invest in Kids Act and its effect on the CASA/GAL network.