A warming blanket to save millions of newborn babies worldwide
Fifteen million hypothermic babies are born every year around the world, including three million who die during the first month of life. Embrace has developed a tiny sleeping bag with proprietary technology that stabilizes the temperature of the newborn for 1.5 percent of the cost of regular Read More...
Deaf children may receive the gift of sound from a brain stem implant
An FDA-approved clinical trial to give the gift of sound and speech to children who were born deaf is already yielding encouraging results. Read the story of Jiya Bavishi, a six-year-old girl who received an auditory brainstem implant. The implant is a microchip that receives sounds picked up by a Read More...
Growing food security in Argentina, one school garden at the time
Up to 35 percent of children in Argentina live in households with “unmet basic needs.” Only 53 percent receive of those receive food assistance. Here is the inspiring story of the Huerta Niño Foundation, an organization founded in 1999 to build agroecological school gardens in low-income areas Read More...
University professor gives lesson in humanity
Ordinary heroes abound. They live with us every day, nurturing or restoring our faith in humanity—as the case may be—and teaching us something about ourselves in the process. One recent example is Sydney Engelberg, a Hebrew University professor in Jerusalem who did something both remarkably Read More...
For children, happiness trumps regardless of life circumstances
There is no correlation between how much stuff children have and how happy they are, according to a new survey of 53,000 children across 15 countries. The brazen optimism of children regardless of their circumstances is very reassuring news. What if we could retain that virtue and strength Read More...
Raising flourishing adults in a world ruled by electronics
On average, children spend more time with electronic screens than they do in school, or engaged with any other activity. Electronics even compete with sleep. One consequence is that children are exposed to over a million messages a year that are geared to instant gratification—instant text Read More...
5 tips for stressed out moms: avoid, alter, accept, adapt & affirm
It is no mystery that motherhood is one of the toughest jobs out there. Stress can become overwhelming at times, turning us into lesser versions of the parents we would want to be. We feel these five strategies can be like so many handrails, helping us remember that we are not alone and that there Read More...
Plan for a family financial retreat and ease money-related stress
Money is consistently among the top sources of stress for Americans year over year, according to the American Psychological Association’s 2014 Stress in America survey. Simultaneously, just 37 percent said they often talk with their family members about the subject. Communication is a key Read More...
Indian game developer wants to help kids fall in love with math
Education games are taking off in India, providing teachers and students with cheap, effective tools to support, and in some cases accelerate, the learning curve. One example is startup Logic Roots. It just raised $400,000 from investors for its math app Mathaly, which is currently designed for Read More...
Eat your vegetables! gets fun
Children often need time and repeated attempts in order for them to fall in love with vegetables. How about adding some fun to the experience? Parents of picky eaters and their children may both enjoy this interactive tool to explore their relationship with each kind of vegetable. Children can give Read More...