How we are failing our kids?

Research and evidence from around the world has shown school closures lead to decreased educational outcomes, including lower literacy and math delays and increased school failure rates, worsening mental health, suicidality and substance use, increased food insecurity, increased domestic abuse and reduced socialization …

Why is it important for children to fail?

In fact, letting children learn from their mistakes helps build resilience and is essential to raising a confident, capable, happy, and successful adult. When children are given the opportunity to struggle and sometimes fail, you allow them to develop important social and emotional skills.

Why is it good to fail sometimes?

It’s okay to fail because it helps to shed light on what you want and where you’re going. You reflect on life, developing new strategies to push through present-day obstacles, finding new ways to approach old problems.

Should I let my daughter fail school?

Donna Volpitta: If there’s a learning opportunity, it can be a good idea to let kids fail. But there are times when they may need extra support, and even if there is a lesson, failure isn’t a good idea. If kids have no chance of success because of lack of skills or strategies, constant failure only make things worse.

Are children at risk of becoming a ‘Lost Generation’?

Our children are, she joined the others in warning, at risk of becoming a “lost generation”. Children and young people largely avoided the direct health impact of the coronavirus.

Is it more harmful to a child to remove them from home?

Advocacy for children’s rights must not be left to a social service agency that maintains the repressive and scientifically unproven view that it is more harmful to the child to remove him or her from the family than to leave the child in the abusive home.

Why is CPS so bad at solving crimes?

Worse yet, CPS lacks the victim’s perspective of law enforcement (whose complaining witness must be protected to preserve the criminal case). CPS’s “client” is not the child, but the family. Their goal is to rehabilitate the perpetrator and preserve the “family unit”; to perform a social experiment at the child’s expense.

How many children have been previously reported to CPS as dangerous?

And, 42\% of the children who died had been previously reported to CPS as being in danger.