Our children are starving — for food, for protection, for parents, for hope.

There are all kinds of public service announcements, commercials and efforts urging us to help feed hungry children and their families. In all, a record 70 million are in need of one of life’s necessities — food.
We can argue and debate until the cows (don’t) come home about why we’re allowing our children to starve, but that won’t change the bottom line that we are facing the broadest and deepest global humanitarian crisis since the United Nations was established in 1945.
Indeed, an estimated 100,000 people in South Sudan are dying of starvation and 7.5 million South Sudanese need food.

‘To the parents of children who stare at my disabled daughter’

Daniel Willingham is a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1992. His research once centered on the brain basis of learning and memory, but for more than 15 years, he has focused on the application of cognitive psychology to K-12 schools and higher education. He was appointed early this year by President Obama to be a member of the National Board for Education Sciences, the independent and nonpartisan arm of the U.S. Education Department, which provides statistics, research and evaluation on education topics.

How to help children with autism make, and keep, friends

“Crowds overwhelmed him. The noise, the games and toys were too much, and sometimes he’d run to another room and hide. What made social situations even harder was that he struggled with impulse control. And he gets locked on ideas. He was perceived as the different one,” says Cat of her now 14-year-old son, who has autism. (Cat and Matthew are identified by their first names only, to protect their privacy.)

Balancing Parenting and Work Stress: A Guide

Over the past decade of leading human capital, diversity, and retention efforts in several demanding U.S.-based companies, I’ve spoken with hundreds of high-performing working parents, and, on the hunt for real, feasible solutions, asked the same questions again and again: What advice has been the most valuable to you over the long term as a working parent? What specific action(s) can working fathers and mothers take to meet the demands of, and be comfortable in, their dual roles? What effective tricks and techniques do you wish you had known when you became a working parent?