Great advice for everyone involved in raising children – parents, grandparents, caregivers, teachers and friends. (We might add that you’re never too young to be read to.)
Children, Youth & Families
A Productive Path for Youth
Sometimes the best way to instill a sense of worth into youth who are troubled or struggling is to offer a hands-on work opportunity where they can learn and grow surrounded by caring adults who believe in them. The specifics don’t really matter. The program can focus on cooking or art or sports or philanthropy. […]
Catch the Read Aloud Habit
Babies are remarkable beings. Long before they begin school, infants and toddlers are learning at lightning speed. From birth to age 5, babies brains will make trillions of connections between billions of neurons. Brain size doubles during the first year, and by age 3, a child’s brain has nearly reached its adult weight. Children build […]
February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month
The statistics are disturbing: One in three adolescent girls report that they have experienced physical, emotional, or verbal abuse by a dating partner. It’s estimated that two-thirds never report that abuse. The Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Survey finds that 1 in 10 teens report being physically and/or sexually abused by a dating partner. Girls and young […]
The Value of Mentoring
Mentoring — whether formal or informal — is a powerful tool to keep young people on the right track, particularly kids who are disconnected from their community. A new study commissioned by MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership with support from AT&T, and written by Civic Enterprises in partnership with Hart Research, surveyed 1,109 young adults […]
Teens as Philanthropists
The Sudbury Foundation is pleased to support the Foundation for MetroWest’s Youth in Philanthropy program – also known as YIP – for the third year in a row. The semester-long program, which begins in January, is held on Wednesday evenings from 7 pm to 8:30 pm in our meeting room at The Grange Hall in Sudbury […]
Early Childhood Brain Building
More and more, researchers are convinced that early learning — the learning that begins at birth and continues through age 3 — is crucial to a child’s potential cognitive ability. What’s key, they say, is to provide young children with rich and varied learning experiences – even before they are able to walk or talk. A […]
Doctors Rx for Kids: Go Outside!
Given the choice, many young people today would opt to stay inside playing with electronic devices or watching TV over a walk, a pick-up game of basketball or a friendly neighborhood hoola hoop competition. Children are becoming increasingly disconnected to the natural world and its many health benefits – both mental and physical. The rise […]
Teens Learn the Art of Grantmaking
The Sudbury Foundation is pleased to once again support the Foundation for MetroWest’s (FFMW) Youth in Philanthropy program, with a session hosted this year at our office at the Grange Hall. The hands-on grantmaking program walks teens through all the steps a Foundation follows before making a grant to a nonprofit. Teens learn about the needs […]
Early Learning Counts
Experts tell us that early language and literacy development begins in the first three years of life and that when young children are exposed to literary-rich environments –books, stories, language, crayons and paper – in their homes, day care, schools, out-of-school programs and camps, they begin their academic career and life journey on a solid […]
