How Long Does it Take to Read a Child a Story?
How about 1 million minutes?
Want Some Green Goblin Veggies With That Pita Pocket Paradise?
Are Corn Pops and Cocoa Pebbles Really a Public Health Menace?
Note to the Obamas – Time to Plan Your Garden?
Life Unexpected: Aging Out of Fostercare
Too bad things aren’t always that easy for many foster kids.
Girls in Juvenile Detention: Our Problem or Theirs?
Childhood Obesity: Lessons from Mexico
One big lesson? The cure starts at home.
Is Dolly Parton a Member of The Junior League?
The JLB Imagination Library, in partnership with the Dollywood Foundation, has made the 60-volume Dolly Parton Imagination Library available to all children under the age of 5 in Jefferson County, Alabama. Each month, from birth to age 5, every child registered will receive a high-quality, age appropriate book in the mail free of charge.
What Happens When You’re Too Old for Santa Claus…and Foster Care?
“Statistics prove that the physical, emotional and social outcomes for ‘aged-out’ foster kids is often bad—bad for the kids and bad for the community that often has no way of dealing with them,” said Debbie Robinson, President of The Association of Junior Leagues International, which represents 292 individual Junior Leagues in four countries. “For all of the money, time and effort we devote to keeping kids in foster care, unfortunately they are too often left on their own when they ‘graduate.’”
Happy Birthday, Big Bird!
Before Sesame Street aired for the first time on November 10, 1969, TV programming for kids was a joke without a punch line. Howdy Doody was better than most commercial efforts, but it never claimed to be educational. Then came Big Bird.