| By: Andrea Lovanhill Breaking Cultural Norms to Prevent Sexual Abuse Our world is opening back up. Children are going back to in-person learning, workers are returning to their office buildings, and thankfully, celebrations are no longer just over Zoom. While we continue to live with and navigate the pandRead More
| By: Andrea Lovanhill Building Connection Through Workplace Community In honor of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, we’ve asked the Committee for Children Executive Leadership Team to reflect on their personal journeys, the women who’ve shaped them along the way, and how they’re working to break biases. Our first post is from CEO Andrea Lovanhill.Read More
| By: Andrea Lovanhill Build Good Habits and Routines with Your Family This Summer “Make a schedule,” they all said. And I, being the type-A person I am, took great delight in making my schedule on day one on the stay-at-home order, complete with a plan to iterate on that schedule and adapt it collaboratively with my kids as we tried to find our new normal. That was then.Read More
| By: Andrea Lovanhill How to Access Your SEL Superpower and Avoid Pandemic Panic Social-emotional learning (SEL) is a lifelong process. Adults need to nurture their social-emotional skills and competencies in order to effectively model these skills for kids and assist children in their own growth and development. In times of Read More
| By: Andrea Lovanhill Put on Your Oxygen Mask First: How to Practice Self-Care During Physical Isolation I’ll be the first to admit I’m a bit resistant to a lot of self-care options, even during times of crisis. Maybe that’s because I come from family of nurses who seem to take on the world with little regard for themselves. Maybe it’s becauRead More
| By: Andrea Lovanhill During the Pandemic, Answer the Hard Questions My oldest child is 6 years old and he has been asking me hard questions from the moment he could talk. When he was just shy of 3 he asked me in a single conversation what happens when we die, how babies are made, and if giraffes can run. I’ve hRead More
| By: Andrea Lovanhill Real-Life Parenting Tips for a Pandemic I’m what some might call a worrier. It’s not apparent. I have a very calm exterior honed through years of practice and—if my son is any indication—some sort of innate genetic predisposition of appearing unaffected in even the most dire ofRead More
| By: Andrea Lovanhill Lucky I was one of the bigger kids until sixth grade, and bullying wasn’t much of an issue for me back then. Still, I’d be lying if I pretended that my bully-free existence continued through middle and high school.Read More
| By: Andrea Lovanhill How to Save the World: Step One It was my work with children that could make a difference. By talking with those tiny humans, I began to understand that humanity’s abuses of the environment, animals, and each other are all connected.Read More
| By: Andrea Lovanhill In Praise of an Excellent Teacher Last week was Teacher Appreciation Week, and I have to admit it made me quite nostalgic for one or two educators who made a difference in my life.Read More