Teaching Children Responsibility

In order to help your children grow-up to be responsible adults, it is important to begin talking with them about what responsibility means and why it is important from an early age. Stories and games are some of the best ways to build understanding about why responsibility is…

Welcome Spring!

Spring is officially here! The weather will be getting warmer, flowers will start to bloom, and we can start to spend more time outside! This is the perfect time for your family to explore all the things that come to life in the spring – insects, flowers, trees!…

World Folktales & Fables Week

  Five Favorite Folktales From Around the World   Reading folktales is a great way to share valuable lessons with your children and entertain them with interesting stories. With simple characters and settings, folktales show how characters use creativity, smarts, and ingenuity to solve problems, with good triumphing…

KAMR Local 4 News

Mission Amarillo is here to serve those in poverty. They do this by multiple programs that help children, teens, and families. “So what we do, is we go in early before they even get to school. We model for the parents how to talk to their kids, how…

Sarah Walzer ’82 Leads a Nonprofit That Prepares Children for School

For children who enter school behind, catching up is very difficult. Sarah Walzer ’82, the CEO of the Parent-Child Home Program, is working to eliminate this “preparation gap.” The intensive home visiting program gives families skills and materials to get their child ready for school and helps create…