I want to raise socially conscious kids: kids who have compassion, who are peace-builders, who advocate for justice especially for those on the margins. In some ways, these are simple aspirations. We often reduce them to inspirational hashtags: Be Kind. Love Wins. The reality is that social topics are also complex. I spent my graduate … More Talking to our Kids about Poverty: An Assets-Based Approach
Read your way around the world this summer with our FREE World Passport, which you can download here: bit.ly/worldpassport. I loved this kind of thing when I was a kid (basically, reading books and making tiny books), and so my 3 1/2 year old and I jumped right in and filled ours out. We don’t … More World Passport!
I’ll go ahead and admit that this post will purposefully allow several of my worlds to collide. I’m a Barefoot Books Ambassador as a side gig, but my background and current work is in international agricultural development. So when Barefoot announced that we are partnering with Trees.org this month to plant trees as part of … More Tree Planting around the World!
barefoot with daphne 