by Jackie Acho | Jan 27, 2018 | #MeToo, Early childhood, Empathy, Parenting, Pedophiles
Larry Nassar, once a world-renown sports physician to our country’s top female gymnasts, was convicted and sentenced last week for sexually abusing over 150 women and girls under his care. The details that emerged during the trial were heart wrenching. One of the most...
by Jackie Acho | May 25, 2016 | Early childhood, Fathers, Motherhood, Mothers, Parental Leave, Parenting, Uncategorized
Mayor Trevor Elkins of Newburgh Heights, Ohio (a small suburb of Cleveland) inspired the most progressive parental leave policy in the country: six-months paid leave for all of the village’s full-time employees, women and men, biological parents and adoptive....
by Jackie Acho | Apr 10, 2016 | Early childhood, Education, Empathy, Grit, Parenting, Resilience, Uncategorized
Did you catch Diane Rehm’s program on NPR last Thursday? Come spring, a group of schools in California will begin testing students on their social emotional skills. The debate among researchers and educators on the show was heated. What is the best way to assess...
by Jackie Acho | May 17, 2014 | Early childhood, Intrapreneurship, Motherhood, Parenting, Uncategorized, Women in Leadership, Work Family Balance
Barbara Walters is using her megaphone to tell us something important. Can we hear her? Is she breaking through our armor of modern culture and personal regret to pierce our hearts? Does she fully realize how important it is and why now is the right time to...
by Jackie Acho | Oct 24, 2013 | Culture, Early childhood, Empathy, Fathers, Feminist revolution, Identity, Motherhood, Mothers, Parenting, Women in Leadership, Work Family Balance
“Successful parenting is a principal key to the mental health of the next generation…In most societies throughout the world these facts have been and still are taken for granted and the societies organized accordingly. Paradoxically, it has taken the world’s richest...
