SELF & SOCIAL WORLDS
Children begin to explore themselves and their world through greater and greater social interaction with adults and other children beyond the earliest relationships established at home.
The Juul’s So Cool, Kids Smoke It In School
The students wait eagerly for their teachers to turn their backs.
That’s their cue to reach quietly for a small, sleek device they can easily...
The Boy Scouts of America: Proudly Sponsored by the NRA
Like a “Shooting Sports” merit badge stitched to a Boy Scout’s sash, gun culture is part of the fabric of American childhood. While parenting...
Too Soon, Too Fast
Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls
Edited by Melinda Tankard Reist
Spinifex Press, 208 pp, April 2010
If you’ve wondered why it is so hard to...
Sorry, But Those Are the Rules
These are a few of the things that people have deemed more important than my kid:
An art gallery
A library’s quiet vibe
The...
The March for Our Lives: From Sea to Shining Sea
This is part two of First Focus’ March for Our Lives series. Check out part one.
History was made this past Saturday as millions marched...
Gun Violence Summit Grapples with Where to Go From Here
Sixth-grader Samantha Sandhaus' question was so innocent – simple and logical – that, for one brief moment, it silenced two seasoned, and loquacious, politicians.
Why, the 12-year-old...