by Amanda Goodman | Feb 21, 2018 | Child Safety, Social Issues
As a parent, we are used to getting alerts from our children’s schools aren’t we? Weather delays, need more money on the lunch account, progress reports, parent teacher conference sign-ups, upcoming bake sales…you know, the usual. But now, the alerts...
by Amanda Goodman | Feb 19, 2018 | Child Safety, Mom Life, Social Issues
I have permission from a fellow Mom friend to share this story. All names have been changed in order to protect the privacy of the family. I wanted to blog about this because when I heard it, it was the “punch in the stomach” wakeup call I needed. My...
by Amanda Goodman | Jan 29, 2018 | Child Safety, Social Issues
I’m still up in the middle of the night feeding the baby…that’s normally the time I get caught up on news headlines. I was scrolling through Twitter when I saw a man complaining. I’ll leave out his Twitter handle but he said: “That Judge...
by Amanda Goodman | Jan 12, 2018 | Child Safety
There are numbers that keep me up at night. The mortgage payment…the cars…future cost of college tuition…co-pays…hospital bills…oh the list could go on and on. But there are other numbers that stay in my head morning, noon and night....
by Amanda Goodman | Jun 7, 2017 | Child Safety, Mom Life
My day started on an unfortunate note: I had to have ANOTHER talk with my kids about strangers. I am not writing this so people can say, “Good for you for talking to them!” “It’s not unfortunate because you are talking to them about it!”...
by Amanda Goodman | Jun 2, 2017 | Child Safety
“What does she know about running a non-profit?” Ahh. Look, I get it. When I was named Executive Director of Family & Children’s Council…I heard the whispers…I read some of the comments. “It’s only because she used to be...
