The child tax credit is big, universal pre-K Is big, paid family leave is big, universal childcare is big, going after monopolies is big. Not saying that’s enough, just pointing out that they’re big
And we need more! We should have a cabinet level Department of Children and Youth. We should massively front end our resources in the direction of children, and every public school in America should a palace of culture, learning and the arts.
I know that to be true. My parents took us traveling when we were kids, and the fact that I met people from all over the world at a young age kept me from being open to a lot of propaganda I might have otherwise been vulnerable to later in life.
It's not enough to say we're "against violence;" we have to stand for non-violence. Violence is more than overt physical attack. Psychological & emotional violence are also violence. Adults getting bullied on the Internet is as much a problem as kids getting bullied at school.
When everything's falling apart in a fast and complicated way, the answer lies in returning to that which is slow and simple. We need to problem-solve from a different level of brain wave functioning. Mindfulness & forgiveness change the world by changing us.