State of the World’s Fathers: 30 Awesome Statistics on Fatherhood

Photo by Brett Sayles pexels.com In this article, you will find 30 statistics on fatherhood from across the world. In our last article, we explored what it means to be a father with three Jamaican dads as they gave us their views on the topic. However, this article looks at the statistics on fatherhood in some…

ByMargo MorrisonJune 9, 20223CommentsShare PostShare on Facebook Share on TwitterShare by EmailSend Link

Fatherhood

What It Means to Be a Father: 6 Powerful Lessons From Jamaican Fathers

photo: pexels.com Last year, I sat down with three fathers to explore their perspectives on fatherhood. In particular, I wanted to understand what being a father meant to each of the men. All three interviews for Miguel Morrison, Kristofferson Nunes and Delroy Beckford are available on this website. It’s one year since the interviews, and I…

ByMargo MorrisonJune 2, 20223CommentsShare PostShare on Facebook Share on TwitterShare by EmailSend Link

Infant

New Research May Have Identified a Biomarker for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

Photo by Bello Olamide A team of researchers in Australia may have identified a biomarker for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) in new research that was published in eBioMedicine. The team was led by Dr. Carmel Harrington at Children's Hospital at Westmead in Australia, a researcher and mother whose son died from SIDS 29 years ago.…

ByMargo MorrisonMay 19, 20221CommentShare PostShare on Facebook Share on TwitterShare by EmailSend Link

Child Mental Health People

On Anxiety: 6 Things I Learned from Willow Smith’s Red Table Talk about Childhood Anxiety

I didn’t want to call it anxiety for a long time because I think it makes you feel weak. It makes you feel like you’re put in a box of sorts.

ByMargo MorrisonMay 10, 20223CommentsShare PostShare on Facebook Share on TwitterShare by EmailSend Link

Childhood Disorders

What is Nonverbal Learning Disorder

Photo by Katerina Holmes Shortly after that unfortunate incident between Chris Rock and Will Smith, the many conversations that followed, Chris Rocks’s diagnosis of nonverbal learning disorder became a major part of these conversations. If you have never heard about nonverbal learning disorder (NVLD), you might be wondering what it is and how it relates to…

ByMargo MorrisonApril 27, 20220CommentsShare PostShare on Facebook Share on TwitterShare by EmailSend Link

Parenting

How to Help Your Child Deal with Bullying in School? – 5 Useful Tips

Bullying in schools is a global problem that affects both the bullied child and the child doing the bullying. Children need to know that being bullied is not a reflection on them but the perpetrator. Bullying takes various forms, is harmful and is a serious issue in schools. In this article, I will outline some…

ByMargo MorrisonApril 15, 20221CommentShare PostShare on Facebook Share on TwitterShare by EmailSend Link

People

Act of Violence: Why Will Smith Hitting Chris Rock was Wrong and What Can We Teach Our Children?

photo credit: vox.com I am sure, like me, it took you some time to pick your jaw off the floor when you realised that Will Smith hitting Chris Rock in the face on live television was not a joke. This act of violence was televised across the globe. In the aftermath, many people have taken to…

ByMargo MorrisonMarch 29, 20221CommentShare PostShare on Facebook Share on TwitterShare by EmailSend Link

Blogs

Read Across America 2022: 6 Tips on How to Make Reading Fun

Photo by William Fortunato from Pexels This week we are celebrating Read Across America 2022 Week. Today, March 2, 2022 is Read Across America Day. Wait, it gets better, March is National Reading Month! Yay for all my fellow bookworms out there! This article is about how to make reading fun for children. Why Read Across America? Read Across…

ByMargo MorrisonMarch 2, 20224CommentsShare PostShare on Facebook Share on TwitterShare by EmailSend Link

Child Mental Health

Black Children’s Suicide: Are We at a Crisis Level?

Photo by Serkan Göktay from Pexels As we continue Black History Month, I want to tackle an often taboo subject in the Black community: suicide, particularly, Black children’s suicides. If we are to help our children, we must have these conversations; we must destigmatize this subject and speak frankly, openly and honestly. The theme for Black History Month 2022…

ByMargo MorrisonFebruary 21, 20221CommentShare PostShare on Facebook Share on TwitterShare by EmailSend Link

Blogs Early Years

Going Back to School? How to Thrive this School Term

Photo by olia danilevich from Pexels It is a new year, which means children are going back to school. It also means another year of school during COVID, and everyone, including our children, is exhausted. This article provides some helpful tips on how to thrive this school term. Having only returned to face-to-face schooling in November, many children…

ByMargo MorrisonJanuary 5, 20221CommentShare PostShare on Facebook Share on TwitterShare by EmailSend Link