Please read with your young children. And by read I mean share a book even if you’re just looking at pictures and talking about them. Don’t worry about interruptions or attention span. Just snuggle once a day and hold a book you both love together! Along that line, check out this article on NPR webpage this morning called Never Too…Continued
Last night, it was my great pleasure to join our parents, board and children at the 2014 Parent Celebration. The parents of our Stepping Stone children were honored for their school-year long participation in adult education, parenting classes, time with their children in the classroom as well as participating in our home visiting program. In…Continued
I was blessed by the Tooth Fairy last Tuesday. It was time for a program visit and Teacher Janet and Program Coordinator Paulette had also alerted me that one of our former preschoolers, Blanca Pereda, CDA, was going to do a short dental presentation for our kids and then give each child a quick tooth cleaning and I really…Continued
I received the following from Susana Ibarra-Johnson, Parent Awareness and Community Outreach Coordinator for Central Phoenix Regional Partnership of First Things First: Best Gift for Kids Under 6? Simple Toys, Quality Time with Adults What are the top choices for holiday gifts that will fire up young kids’ minds? So many parents have spent too…Continued
“Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, ‘We kept charity overhead low.’ We want it to read that we changed the world.” Dan Pallotta (see Ted Talk) I was lucky enough to hear Dan Pallotta speak in person several months ago (Thank you Virginia G. Piper Charitble Trust). I listened to his thesis incorporating…Continued
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It’s 110° outside in Phoenix today. One of the things I do during the hot summer in Phoenix is online research–A Stepping Stone programs are at a quiet time and I can do this indoors! When I entered “child-centered family literacy” in my search engine, one of the first hits today was a Canadian site, which you can find…Continued
Dear Readers, Please check out this new website and the video on its home page (scroll down a bit to find it). Yet another clarion call for action to provide high quality resources for our youngest–which A Stepping Stone has been doing for the past 22 years! Please watch, and let me know what you…Continued
I recently received a link to a new TED talk by PhD Economist, Dr. Timothy Bartik. Thanks to former Board President Judge Maurice Portley for sending the link to me. I had not yet seen this particular and powerful argument for funding programs like ours. Please click on the following link to watch this 16 minute…Continued
Please take a look at the National Center for Family Literacy’s fact sheet for Media. Excellent food for thought. Remember; “They Talk About it; WE DO IT!” http://www.famlit.org/media-resources/statistics/