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Keep Children Safe When They're at Child Care
Target: U.S. Congress
Sponsored by: NACCRRA
Sponsored by: NACCRRA
Not all states require child care programs to be licensed or regularly inspected. Only 12 states, including the District of Columbia and Department of Defense, license all child care centers and family child care homes that care for unrelated children, and only three states require quarterly inspections of these settings.
Child care licensing establishes minimal health and safety standards. Regular inspections ensure those minimal standards are being met. Without licensing or inspections, states cannot safeguard the health, development and well-being of children in care.
One of the most powerful ways to ensure that children are in safe, healthy and developmentally appropriate settings is to require states to license all child care centers and family child care homes caring for at least one unrelated child for a fee. But licensing is only half the battle - states must also require quarterly, unannounced inspections of child care settings to ensure that programs are meeting the minimum standards established by licensing.
Give the 11 million children in child care the chance to get off to a healthy, safe and bright start. Sign the petition today urging Congress to enact legislation supporting licensing and regular inspections of child care settings to ensure all children are protected and their healthy development promoted.
Child care licensing establishes minimal health and safety standards. Regular inspections ensure those minimal standards are being met. Without licensing or inspections, states cannot safeguard the health, development and well-being of children in care.
One of the most powerful ways to ensure that children are in safe, healthy and developmentally appropriate settings is to require states to license all child care centers and family child care homes caring for at least one unrelated child for a fee. But licensing is only half the battle - states must also require quarterly, unannounced inspections of child care settings to ensure that programs are meeting the minimum standards established by licensing.
Give the 11 million children in child care the chance to get off to a healthy, safe and bright start. Sign the petition today urging Congress to enact legislation supporting licensing and regular inspections of child care settings to ensure all children are protected and their healthy development promoted.
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# 5,506:
6:08 am PST, Feb 7,
Lynna Mustapha, Malaysia
Oṃ Tāre Tuttāre Ture Svāhā - Tara, whose name means "star" or "she who ferries across," is a Bodhisattva of compassion who manifests in female form. "She Who Saves." In particular she represents compassion in action, since she’s in the process of stepping from her lotus throne in order to help sentient beings. 1. Tāre represents salvation from mundane dangers and suffering. Tara is seem as a savioress who can give aid from material threats such as floods, crime, wild animals, and traffic accidents. Tara is therefore said to protect against ordinary worldly dangers. 2. Tuttāre represents deliverance into the spiritual path conceived in terms of individual salvation. In traditional terms, this is the path of the Arhant, which leads to individual liberation from suffering. This is seen in Mahayana Buddhism as a kind of enlightenment in which compassion does not figure strongly. Tara therefore offers individual protection from the spiritual dangers of greed, hatred, and delusion: the three factors that cause us individual suffering. 3. Lastly, ture represents the culmination of the spiritual path in terms of deliverance into the altruistic path of universal salvation – the Bodhisattva path. In the Bodhisattva path we aspire for personal enlightenment, but we also connect compassionately with the sufferings of others, and strive to liberate them at the same time as we seek enlightenment ourselves. Tara therefore delivers us from a narrow conception of the spiritual life. She saves us from the notion that spiritual progress is about narrowly liberating ourselves from our own suffering, and instead leads us to see that true spiritual progress involves having compassion for others. By the time we have been liberated from mundane dangers, liberated from a narrow conception of the spiritual path, and led to a realization of compassion, we have effectively become Tara. In Buddhist practice the “deities” represent our own inner potential. We are all potentially Tara. We can all become Tara. Svaha, according to Monier Monier-William’s Sanskrit Dictionary, means: "Hail!", "Hail to!" or "May a blessing rest on!" We could see this final blessing as symbolizing the recognition that we are, ultimately, Tara. Her mantra can therefore be rendered as something like "OM! Hail to Tara (in her three roles as a savioress)!" Om Tare Tuttare Ture Mama Ayuh Punya Jñana Pustim Kuru Svaha Mama means "mine" and indicates that you’d like to possess these qualities of long life, merit, wisdom, happiness, etc. You can of course choose to wish these qualities for someone else — perhaps for a teacher or for a loved one who is ill. Ayuh is long life (as in Ayurvedic medicine). Punya means the merit that comes from living life ethically, and this merit is said to help one to live long and happily. Jnana is wisdom. Punya and Jnana are known as the Two Accumulations. In order to become enlightened we need to accumulate merit (that is, to develop positive qualities through living ethically and meditating) but we also need to develop wisdom through deep reflection. Wisdom cannot arise without a basis of merit, but merit alone is not enough for us to become enlightened, meaning that becoming a nicer person isn’t enough — we have also to look deeply into ourselves and the world around us and to see the impermanent and insubstantial nature of all things. Pushtim means wealth, abundance, or increase.
Oṃ Tāre Tuttāre Ture Svāhā - Tara, whose name means "star" or "she who ferries across," is a Bodhisattva of compassion who manifests in female form. "She Who Saves." In particular she represents compassion in action, since she’s in the process of stepping from her lotus throne in order to help sentient beings. 1. Tāre represents salvation from mundane dangers and suffering. Tara is seem as a savioress who can give aid from material threats such as floods, crime, wild animals, and traffic accidents. Tara is therefore said to protect against ordinary worldly dangers. 2. Tuttāre represents deliverance into the spiritual path conceived in terms of individual salvation. In traditional terms, this is the path of the Arhant, which leads to individual liberation from suffering. This is seen in Mahayana Buddhism as a kind of enlightenment in which compassion does not figure strongly. Tara therefore offers individual protection from the spiritual dangers of greed, hatred, and delusion: the three factors that cause us individual suffering. 3. Lastly, ture represents the culmination of the spiritual path in terms of deliverance into the altruistic path of universal salvation – the Bodhisattva path. In the Bodhisattva path we aspire for personal enlightenment, but we also connect compassionately with the sufferings of others, and strive to liberate them at the same time as we seek enlightenment ourselves. Tara therefore delivers us from a narrow conception of the spiritual life. She saves us from the notion that spiritual progress is about narrowly liberating ourselves from our own suffering, and instead leads us to see that true spiritual progress involves having compassion for others. By the time we have been liberated from mundane dangers, liberated from a narrow conception of the spiritual path, and led to a realization of compassion, we have effectively become Tara. In Buddhist practice the “deities” represent our own inner potential. We are all potentially Tara. We can all become Tara. Svaha, according to Monier Monier-William’s Sanskrit Dictionary, means: "Hail!", "Hail to!" or "May a blessing rest on!" We could see this final blessing as symbolizing the recognition that we are, ultimately, Tara. Her mantra can therefore be rendered as something like "OM! Hail to Tara (in her three roles as a savioress)!" Om Tare Tuttare Ture Mama Ayuh Punya Jñana Pustim Kuru Svaha Mama means "mine" and indicates that you’d like to possess these qualities of long life, merit, wisdom, happiness, etc. You can of course choose to wish these qualities for someone else — perhaps for a teacher or for a loved one who is ill. Ayuh is long life (as in Ayurvedic medicine). Punya means the merit that comes from living life ethically, and this merit is said to help one to live long and happily. Jnana is wisdom. Punya and Jnana are known as the Two Accumulations. In order to become enlightened we need to accumulate merit (that is, to develop positive qualities through living ethically and meditating) but we also need to develop wisdom through deep reflection. Wisdom cannot arise without a basis of merit, but merit alone is not enough for us to become enlightened, meaning that becoming a nicer person isn’t enough — we have also to look deeply into ourselves and the world around us and to see the impermanent and insubstantial nature of all things. Pushtim means wealth, abundance, or increase.
# 5,505:
2:32 pm PST, Feb 2,
Felix Kyere - Yeboah, Ghana
i am felix from Ghana and the founder of Faith Child Orhpanage in Berekum. we need help for the childern in FCO. we will be happy to hear from Ngo's to help.every one is welcome to our home. thanks
i am felix from Ghana and the founder of Faith Child Orhpanage in Berekum. we need help for the childern in FCO. we will be happy to hear from Ngo's to help.every one is welcome to our home. thanks
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