“Childhood obesity isn't about looks. And it's not about weight. It's about how our kids feel. And those are really the implications of the problem and the words that tell a fuller picture of the challenges that we face; you know, kids struggling in ways that they didn't a generation ago.” KnowsWayFeelsLooksProblemKidsFacesChallengesStruggleGenerationsChildhoodWeightImplicationsObesityChildhood Obesity Author:Michelle Obama
“Healthy parenting is especially challenging when our own childhoods weren't healthy. It requires energy, attention, and constant restraint. Realize that you need healing. Take time out to nurture yourself.” NeedsEnergyRealizingChallengesHealingAttentionChildhoodHealthyConstantTake TimeNurtureRestraint Author:Vimala McClure
“When you introduce these tools into the community, they can be adopted and implemented at the local level - and the results have been powerful. We have to ask the questions, how do people survive in poverty and other challenges of traumatic childhoods? And, until we fix this underlying problems, how do we help people in the meantime?” PeopleHas BeensHelpingProblemAsksCommunityChallengesLevelsResultsPowerfulPovertyChildhoodToolsLocalsIntroducingAdopted Author:James Redford
“I had an exciting, interesting childhood, to be sure, with all of the challenges that ghetto life provides - but had loving parents.” ParentChallengesInterestingChildhoodExcitingGhettoLoving Parents Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“Macroeconomic stability will be more elusive and that will affect all of our lives: from the risks many will face in childhood, to the security of employment at working age, to the challenge of accumulating for retirement. More financial instability will introduce more uncertainty all down the line, and that will be a very different world than the one we would have lived in only a couple of decades ago.” WorldDifferentAgeFacesChallengesLinesOur LivesRiskChildhoodSecurityCoupleFinancialDecadesEmploymentUncertaintyRetirementStabilityIntroducingElusiveDifferent WorldsInstabilityMacroeconomics Author:Alan M. Taylor
“My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.” MadeCertainChallengesChildhoodDetermined Author:Sam Taylor-Wood