by Irene van der Zande, Kidpower Founder and Executive Director | Dec 29, 2020
I have to tell you about four-year-old Olivia – and how Kidpower helped her take charge of her safety. She found her mother’s tablet on the coffee table. Already skilled at searching for cartoons, she started hunting for her favorites. She clicked on what she thought was a new cartoon and suddenly arrived at an […]
by Irene van der Zande, Kidpower Founder and Executive Director | Dec 28, 2020
I hope that this safety story brings you joy ― and that these skills will also empower you and your loved ones. In a dimly-lit room near a garment factory in an impoverished neighborhood in Bangladesh, excited factory workers with their children gathered in November ― eager to learn how to stay safe with people. […]
by Irene van der Zande, Kidpower Founder and Executive Director | Dec 24, 2020
If you have children at home ― or know someone who does, I think you will appreciate learning how nine-year-old Emily stopped a fight between her younger siblings by coaching them to use their Kidpower boundaries. Months into lockdown, remote work, and distance learning with three kids, Jessica was in yet another Zoom meeting when […]
by Irene van der Zande, Kidpower Founder and Executive Director | Dec 23, 2020
Watch Irene ask Raccoon to help Kidpower raise $100K to help kids be safe! Tuesday was an amazing day for Kidpower – and I just can’t wait to tell you why! First, during a Head Start preschool staff training, a teacher whom I taught in 2004 shared that ever since then, she has been using […]
by Irene van der Zande, Kidpower Founder and Executive Director | Dec 18, 2020
I hope you and your loved ones are safe and well as we enter the holiday season – and that you will find this Kidpower Safety Champions story as inspiring as I do! “Is there any way Kidpower can help us?” asked a nursing home manager in Argentina as the pandemic hit her town in March. Every day, […]