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CELEBRATING PARENTS PUTTING KIDS FIRST FOR 25 YEARS!

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Tax-Funded Daycare Lobbying

Join the Movement for Family-Friendly Policy -- A Much Needed Policy Document

HELP KIDS FIRST MAKE A HUMAN RIGHTS COMPLAINT AGAINST UNJUST DISCRIMINATION IN CHILD CARE LAWS

Economist Marilyn Waring on the need to recognize women's unpaid work. Videos: Making Women's Work Count -- a short interview, and Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics -- a full length film by Canada's National Film Board

Paul Kershaw of the tax-funded daycare lobby at the Human Early Learning Partnership is critiqued for his neo-liberalism by a fellow academic in the Feb 2012 Rabble article, Generational conflict: Neo-liberalism's new bait-and-switch ploy

Who is Responsible for Children? on Corus radio's April 14, 2013 Roy Green Show: Kids First President Helen Ward discusses the claim that children belong to the community "collective" and are not the "private" responsibility of their parents as described by US pundit Melissa Harris-Parry in this recent MSNBC ad

Fund Children not Space: Over $3,800/yr+++ = Tax Subsidy for Each Daycare Space

1 in 3 Canadian mothers do not receive any EI maternity/parental benefits.

In 2011, 68% of mothers with children 12 months and under received these benefits. 76.6% had insurable employment and 88% of those got benefits. See the Statistics Canada Employment Insurance Coverage Survey, 2011

Mar 17, 2013: UK Daily Mail article featuring Kids First Swedish colleague, Jonas Himmelstrand, Long days at nursery or with childminders 'raising a generation of school tearaways'. Research says that bad behaviour is linked to hours spent without parents. Jonas Himmelstrand is presenting his report to MPs this week.

March 8, 2013 International Women's Day - UK Guardian article by Selma James, founder of Wages for Housework, and Nina Lopez of Argentina, founder of Legal Action for Women and joint co-ordinator of the Global Women's Strike: Hugo Chávez knew that his revolution depended on women. The authors describe Hugo Chavez's formal recognition of care work as productive work: "[Women] work so hard raising their children, ironing, washing, preparing food … giving [their children] an orientation … This was never recognised as work yet it is such hard work! ... Now the revolution puts you first, you too are workers, you housewives, workers in the home."

Mar 2013: Roadkill Radio interviews Kids First President, Helen Ward, on the "Gender Equity Rankings" report by the World Economic Forum (gender equity is not about women's empowerment), HELP's Dr Paul Kershaw, and BC's $10/day daycare push

Feb 28, 2013: Vancouver Co-op radio interviews Kids First President, Helen Ward, on the Early Development Instrument, daycare, all-day Kindergarten and the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP)

Feb 26, 2013: Tyee article Stress is Killing Gender Equality in Canada

2012: World Economic Forum "The Gender Gap Report"

Feb 2013: Landmark Human Rights Case for Families

Feb 2013: Top Daycare Lobbyist Leaves a Troubling Legacy: Dr Clyde Hertzman

TVO Parents Videos: In The Importance of Attachment, Gordon Neufeld explains his opposition to all-day kindergarten. He says, "the state should not be commissioned to take care of our children" and "to hand the child over to the state: the state is only too eager to say, 'We are better for your child than you are', 'We can train our people to take care of...' but it's not about the training."

Also check out the TVO Parents videos from The Child Development and Community Conference. Topics include bullying, attachment, digital age, peer-orientation, and parental stress.

Nov 2012: Report on bullying policy by Institute for Family & Marriage Canada "Family responses to bullying: Why governments won't stop bullying until families step up." This report applies attachment theory and Dr Gordon Neufeld's work to the issue of bullying and recommends policies that build attachment rather relying on children to police each other.

Quebec daycare kids more likely to be obese: Nov 2012: Study published in Journal of Pediatrics finds daycare linked to obesity (head author: Marie-Claude Geoffroy)

CBC article: "Obesity odds may be higher for children in daycare”

Toronto Star: “Daycare and obesity: Parents weigh in on why kids in daycare more likely to be overweight”

"Gender equity" style parenting resulted in more mental health problems for kids

March 2012: Study published in International Journal for Equity in Health of “gender equity” parenting (both parents spending equal amounts of time at jobs and doing child care) in Sweden finds children have more mental health problems with gender equal parents.

"Could gender equality in parental leave harm off-springs' mental health? a registry study of the Swedish parental/child cohort of 1988/89

Data Mining Canadian Kids: A document authored by Dr Clyde Hertzman of HELP, Canada's leading guru pushing privacy-violating data mining and institutional child care, outlines "5 Year Plan".

Here is the 2009 document prepared by the Monitoring Committee of the Early Childhood Learning Knowledge Centre The World's Best Infrastructure for Child Development Statistics in Canada: Strategies for Federal-Provincial-Territorial Collaboration

Feb 2012: Ottawa Citizen article "All work and no play . . . Is not good for the developing brain, says psychologist Dr. Gordon Neufeld." Neufeld says, "The only resistance I get is from policy-makers."

More bad news for Sweden's mothers & economy: Full-time job + kids = disability = pension

May 2012: British Medical Journal article - "Disability pension among young women in Sweden, with special emphasis on family structure: a dynamic cohort study"
FINDING: "Parenthood contributed to an increased risk of going on D[isability]P[ension] among young women."

Watch the Kids First Australia video: Every mother works!

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