Meaningful Ways Families Can Celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day!
Although it is not a federal holiday, 17 states have holidays honoring Native Americans, some of which are on the ...
Dehumanization = Death
Let's Focus on our Humanity Pride Month is still in full swing. It is a time for the world’s LGBTQ+ ...
On Slavery and Juneteenth
Today, we celebrated June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger, commanding officer of the District of Texas, arrived in ...
[Video] Kids and New Years’ Resolutions
Watch as Petal Modeste, parenting expert and podcast host, discuss the ways to make goals and resolutions with your children, ...
[Video] How to Diversify Your Kid’s Toy Box and Bookshelf this Holiday Season.
Last month Petal had the opportunity to be featured on Fox 5 Morning news explaining how you can diversify your ...
[Listen] Preserving our Planet – A Legacy Continues
Preserving our Planet - A Legacy Continues; A conversation with Philippe Cousteau Jr. and Ashlan Gorse-Cousteau Philippe Cousteau Jr. and ...
Decrying Anti-Asian Hate
We have recently witnessed more abhorrent acts of hate and violence against members of our Asian American and Pacific Islander ...
Parenting and the Storming of the Capitol
Following the deadly storming of the US Capitol last week, parents and teachers sought guidance and resources to help them ...
[VIDEO] Lessons Learned from a Pandemic that can help us Parent for the Future!
"It's easy to get dizzy from all this pivoting! Petal Modeste is an accomplished lawyer, blogger and podcaster who has ...
PFTF’s 2021 Binge Watch List
The holiday season is nearly officially over but as we continue to social distance to keep our loved ones safe, ...
This Week’s Feature: Medium.com
Having trouble maintaining a work/life balance? In our latest feature, with Medium.com, Petal reveals how she maintains her position at ...
[VIDEO] This Week’s Feature: Good Day Chicago
Petal Modeste, a parenting expert and host of Parenting for the Future, discusses multicultural toys and books available for the ...
This Week’s Feature: Madamenoire.com
Recently we were featured in "What You Need To Consider If You’re Planning A Family Road Trip Home For The Holidays" ...
[VIDEO] Kids Respond: What Would They Do If They Were President of the United States
WOW. These kids were asked what they would do if they were president, and what our new president should focus ...
This Week’s Feature: Goodhousekeeping.com
This week we had the honor of being mentioned in Good Housekeeping's, "The 15 Best Parenting Podcasts for Busy Moms and Dads ...
Election 2020: What Parents Need to Know About Climate Change
With a week remaining to vote in the 2020 Election, there is no issue more important to parents than climate ...
Parenting and Politics: Parenting For The Future Season 3
Climate Change. Racism. The Coronavirus Pandemic. There is so much at stake in the 2020 election—for parents and for all ...
Back to School in a COVID-19 World – Advice for Parents
On this episode, we discuss what steps we can take as parents when deciding whether to send our kids back ...
Wrapping Up Season 2
Dear PFTF Friends, Season 2 of Parenting for the Future comes to an end today. And what a season! This ...
Knees Buried in Necks & Finding Hope for the Future
I have spent many hours over the past few days in tears, holding my children, grappling with feelings of utter ...
The Legacy of Housing Segregation Lives On
Beginning in the 17th century and continuing for the next 200 years, untold millions of Africans were kidnapped, shipped across ...
How to Triage Your Life in the Time of COVID-19: Lessons from the E.R.
As Coronavirus infections and deaths continue to mount around the globe, so do our feelings of anxiety, worry and the ...
Teaching our Teens to Find Their Passion
As the Coronavirus sweeps the globe, it is having a microscopic effect—revealing for many the challenges we face as a ...
Quarantine Life: Ideas for making the most of family time
Wherever you are in the world, you, like us at Parenting For The Future, are undoubtedly adjusting to the new ...
Coronavirus Toolkit for Parents
I hope you are doing well and staying healthy. I am writing to let you know that Parenting for the ...
Recommended Activities to Keep Black History Month Education Going All Year
Activities: Take the Implicit Bias Test Visit Equal Justice Work’s Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice ...
A List of Talks, Movies & Documentaries to Watch for Black History Month
Ted Talks My road trip through the whitest towns of America —Rich Benjamin How to Overcome your Biases? Walk Boldly ...
A Black History Month Reading List for Parents, Educators & Children
For Parents and Educators Black Reconstruction in America by W.E.B. Du Bois How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X ...
Beyond Black History Month: Resources for Parents, Educators and Children
February is Black History Month, a month where we celebrate African American luminaries who have blazed a trail in every ...
These inspiring kids are shaping the future in a big way
[Season 2 of Parenting fo the Future debuts on January 28. Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast before then ...
Welcome to the 2020! (Season 2 is coming soon!)
Welcome to the new decade! All of us at Parenting for the Future hope that this year is one in ...
How the Baha’i faith is empowering youth during adolescence
A Conversation with Luke Bolton on the Bahá’í Faith’s Junior Youth Spiritual Empowerment Program Luke Bolton grew up in Durango ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: Our Children join the UN in Sounding the Emergency Bell on Climate Change
The 74th UN General Assembly is in Session. More than 90 heads of state have descended at the UN's New ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: Provocative Parenting Questions
This week I am sharing three thought-provoking questions with respect to our children and their well-being, including whether some of ...
Parenting for the Future: Staring Down Parenting Challenges from Toddlers to Collegiates
This week, my thoughts are divided among many important parenting issues that impact all of our children, from toddlers to ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: Companies Changing the World, 11 Amazing Examples of Disruptive Technology, 9 Disruptive Technology Trends for 2019, How to Stay Relevant in an Automated World, Are Universities Preparing Students for the Future of Work?, What a Couple of IPOs Means for the Future of Business, Parental Guilt is a Cultural Epidemic, One Indonesian Lawmaker Says “End Child Marriage Hell,” and Girls Not Brides — a White Paper.
With summer officially over and kids back to school this week, my thoughts turn to the promise of a new ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: Climate Change and Child Stunting, Climate Change and Children’s Health, Greta Thurnberg Inspiring Kids and Publishers, Saving Farmland for Future Generations, New WW App for Kids Causing Controversy, Online Radicalization and Mass Shootings, Six Proven Ways to Raise Kids to Be Change-Makers, and Toni Morrison Words of Wisdom on Parenting.
With each passing day, climate change becomes more of a threat to our planet and to humanity. This week, I ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: 10 Secret Text Codes Teens Use, 11 Secret Emoji Messages Every Parent Should Know, 10 Reasons You Should Track a Child’sCell Phone or Computer, 12 New Teen Slang and Acronyms for 2019, 30 Emojis Used for Sexting, What Parents Need to Know About Cyberbullying, 9 Sexuality/Gender terms and Definitions Most Teens Know — But Most Parents Don’t, and the 30 Best Family Movies to Watch With Kids.
Many Parents would argue that keeping track of teens and their tech use is the greatest challenge of parenting this ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: Parenting a Child with Cancer, Parents’ Emotional Trauma May Change Kids’ Biology, When to Worry About Your Child’s Anxiety, Your Children Need to be BORED, 10 Middle-Schoolers Making Big Changes, Kindness is Innate But Not Inevitable, 16+ Summer Math Activities for Kids.
This week, I read a cross section of parenting articles that brought to mind how we, as parents, are responsible ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: Grannies for the Future, Fertility Preservation for Transgender and Non-Binary People, More Kids Want to Be YouTubers, Skate After School, 6 Life Lessons for Raising a Transgender Child, A Growing Child-Free By Choice Movement, Gov. Cuomo Signs Green New Deal, UK Activists and Lawmakers Revitalize Green New Deal.
As climate change becomes more dire with each passing year, we are forced to look at its far reaching effects ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: Should Kids Get Mental Health Days? 6 Things Happy Families Have in Common, Getting Ahead of Kids’ Inattention Issues, Creative Ways to Manage Screen Time, How to Stop Emotional Eating, Malala’s Dad on Pushing Equality at Home, Will Robots One Day Replace us as Parents?
As parents, we are constantly questioning whether we are doing enough for our children to ensure their success in the ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: What The Future Looks Like for Special Needs Parents, Hiring Screen-Free Coaches, Science Says Parents Are Taking it Too Far, The Pros and Cons of Working From Home, Robots as Elder Carers, Automation and Its Impact on Jobs, How AI Rooted Out a Sexist Culture, and Humans Still Do Some Things Better than Robots.
The old saying “Man plans and God laughs” seems to ring eerily true these days as we -- and most ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: Teens Making Big Changes, Tackling Global Sanitation Issues, The Future of Work-Life Balance, 6 New Space Jobs for the Future, Why Kids Need a Side Hustle, Getting Your Kids to Move This Summer, Avoiding the “Summer Slide,” and How Cow Farts Are Contributing to Climate Change.
We are inundated daily by news of crises the world over -- the perils of climate change, war and genocide, ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: Mom’s Post on Parenting Son with Autism Hailed for Honesty, Celebrating the good and bad this July 4, Kids and Self-worth, The dangers of “Helicopter Parenting,” Motivating Your Kids, Parenting in Poverty, What to do When Kids Say the Darndest Things, and the Funniest Parenting Tweets of the Week.
As parents, we are charged with navigating our children through this tricky world, responsible for helping them develop the resilience ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: 5 child activists doing incredible things, Swedish preschools and gender biases, Teaching hard AND soft skills in school, Fostering self-awareness in kids, Keeping our kids safe from harmful YouTube content, A Sandy Hook mom’s very personal quest, and Throwing away the “working mom” guilt.
As summer gets into full swing and the streets, pools and beaches fill with kids, my thoughts turn to youngsters ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: The Secret of Being a Good Father, What Dads Can do To Help Their Daughters Succeed, Redefining Masculinity, Giving in to Gaming With Your Kids, and how Reading to Your Infant Can Benefit You Both.
This Father’s Day, I couldn’t help but think of how much the definition of a good dad has changed over ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: Preparing Kids for the 4th Industrial Revolution, Automation and its Impact on Working Women, AI and the Future of Work and Inequality, Overcoming Childhood Poverty, Schoolgirls Fighting to End Child Marriage, Football Uniting Kids Across Cultures and Can Technology Save Global Health and Education?
As the school year closes and kids head outdoors to take advantage of more screen-free activities, I can’t help but ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: Helping Your Kids Find Their Passions, A Magic Formula to Keep Kids Reading Through the Summer, Seven Life Skills To Ensure Your Kids Lead Happy Lives, Keeping Your Kids Safe Poolside This Summer, Simple Tricks to Make Traveling with Kids Better, How to Teach Kids to Appreciate Art, Sesame Street Tackles Financial Literacy, and How to Practice Safe Posting on Social Media.
Summer fever is spreading like wildfire as the weather becomes warmer and the days become longer. With school about to ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: Raising Successful Kids, Talking to Your Kids About Mental Health, How to Handle Potentially Life-Threatening Social Media Posts, College Kids Reach Space, Millennial Finances, Advances in Autism Treatments, and Climate Change’s Impact on our Kids’ Health.
The link between social media and mental health continues to dominate headlines across the media landscape as we learn more ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting for the Future Stories: Beating Hunger, Financial Security, Navigating Racism, Emotional Resilience and Innovating the SATs and learning
Hunger, poverty and inequality continue to afflict the human family and threaten the future of too many of our children ...
Petal’s Weekly Tips for Top Parenting Stories: Raising CEOs and doctors, Trailblazing Educators, and Climate Change
There were plenty of stories to inspire me on the Parenting for the Future front this week, including several about ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting Stories: Internet Access, Sports, and Engineering
Parenting in the digital era can cause us a lot of angst as we strive for balance in screen time ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting Stories: Lifelong Learning, Plastic Toys, and Meltdowns
As I get closer to launching my podcast Parenting for the Future, I think about how much I’ve enjoyed learning ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting Stories: Asthma, Parenting Style, and Firstborn Advantage
The current state of the environment and the changing climate affects us all, but parents are especially worried about the ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting Stories: Endangered Species, Foodies and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
As I get closer to the launch of my podcast Parenting for the Future, I've been thinking about how we ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting Stories: Early Childcare in India, Future of Work in Australia and Parenting Class in Japan
As a parent with the goal of raising two global citizens, I find myself drawn to stories about how parents ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting Stories: The Future of Work, Adulthood and Feeling Secure
I've been making exciting progress on my podcast Parenting for the Future and the launch is in sight! When we ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting Stories: Teenage Brain, Inclusivity and Climate Strike
One of my main motivations behind creating my podcast Parenting for the Future is the desire to address how dramatically ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting Stories: Happiness, Pollution and Social Media
As I prepare to launch my podcast Parenting for the Future, I feel encouraged that so many parents truly want ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting Stories: Arts Education, YouTube and Young Environmentalists
I now have two more experts lined up for my podcast Parenting for the Future. Each guest brings something completely ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting Stories: Math Fiction, Nature and Praising Toddlers
I'm getting ready to record another podcast episode for Parenting for the Future, so I'm right on track to launch ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting Stories: Anxiety, Nurturing Talent and Two Codes
From research mode to the production process, I've been relishing the learning curve as I work on my first Parenting ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting Stories: The Formula, Toothbrushing and Climate Change
This has been a wonderful week! I am so grateful for the outpouring of support from friends after sharing the ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting Stories: Introverts, Bilingualism and Nonfiction Books for Kids
Over the past few weeks, I've been engaging in conversations with friends, colleagues and experts about how we can prepare ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting Stories: Robots, Screen Time and Happy Memories
As I'm getting ready to launch my podcast, Parenting for the Future, I am meeting remarkable potential interviewees. This week, ...
Petal’s Weekly Picks for Top Parenting Stories: Alexa, Resiliency and Mommy Bloggers
I am excited to announce that I am gearing up to launch my podcast, Parenting for the Future! Every week, ...