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A few favorite stories of the children who are shaping the future.
Welcome to the 2020! (Season 2 is coming soon!)
Welcome to the new decade! All of us at Parenting for the Future hope that this year is one in which your joy increases exponentially, your work deeply satisfies you, your relationships strengthen and sustain you and your unique and positive impact is amplified!...
How the Baha’i faith is empowering youth during adolescence
A Conversation with Luke Bolton on the Bahá’í Faith’s Junior Youth Spiritual Empowerment Program Luke Bolton grew up in Durango Colorado but left home to go to Bard College in upstate New York. He graduated from college with a degree in International Relations and...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: Our Children join the UN in Sounding the Emergency Bell on Climate Change
The 74th UN General Assembly is in Session. More than 90 heads of state have descended at the UN's New York headquarters to discuss and debate the world's most pressing issues. As a lead in to the Climate Action Youth Summit and Climate Action Summit, millions of...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: Provocative Parenting Questions
This week I am sharing three thought-provoking questions with respect to our children and their well-being, including whether some of us should be allowed to have children. I also read a series of articles that focus on some of the phenomena that impact childhood...
Parenting for the Future: Staring Down Parenting Challenges from Toddlers to Collegiates
This week, my thoughts are divided among many important parenting issues that impact all of our children, from toddlers to school-age kids all the way to collegiates. For starters -- the safety and security of our kids can never be far from our minds and...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: Companies Changing the World, 11 Amazing Examples of Disruptive Technology, 9 Disruptive Technology Trends for 2019, How to Stay Relevant in an Automated World, Are Universities Preparing Students for the Future of Work?, What a Couple of IPOs Means for the Future of Business, Parental Guilt is a Cultural Epidemic, One Indonesian Lawmaker Says “End Child Marriage Hell,” and Girls Not Brides — a White Paper.
With summer officially over and kids back to school this week, my thoughts turn to the promise of a new academic year and all that the future holds. With so much tech news filling my feed, I have spent much of my time this week reading about companies that are...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: Climate Change and Child Stunting, Climate Change and Children’s Health, Greta Thurnberg Inspiring Kids and Publishers, Saving Farmland for Future Generations, New WW App for Kids Causing Controversy, Online Radicalization and Mass Shootings, Six Proven Ways to Raise Kids to Be Change-Makers, and Toni Morrison Words of Wisdom on Parenting.
With each passing day, climate change becomes more of a threat to our planet and to humanity. This week, I am taking a closer look at the direct impact this global issue is having on our children. To begin, I read a study by the National Academy of Sciences which...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: 10 Secret Text Codes Teens Use, 11 Secret Emoji Messages Every Parent Should Know, 10 Reasons You Should Track a Child’sCell Phone or Computer, 12 New Teen Slang and Acronyms for 2019, 30 Emojis Used for Sexting, What Parents Need to Know About Cyberbullying, 9 Sexuality/Gender terms and Definitions Most Teens Know — But Most Parents Don’t, and the 30 Best Family Movies to Watch With Kids.
Many Parents would argue that keeping track of teens and their tech use is the greatest challenge of parenting this generation -- and they wouldn’t be wrong. For starters, many of us spend a lot of time negotiating (Read: arguing) screen time with our kids, and we...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: Parenting a Child with Cancer, Parents’ Emotional Trauma May Change Kids’ Biology, When to Worry About Your Child’s Anxiety, Your Children Need to be BORED, 10 Middle-Schoolers Making Big Changes, Kindness is Innate But Not Inevitable, 16+ Summer Math Activities for Kids.
This week, I read a cross section of parenting articles that brought to mind how we, as parents, are responsible for creating balance in our kids' lives. In today’s world, that can be very difficult with so much scary news from mass shootings to the threat of war....