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Check out Jen’s article on Huffington Post about Save The Children:
This post is part of a series on childhood poverty in the United States in partnership with Save the Children and Julianne Moore. Moore leads the organization’s Valentine’s Day campaign, through which cards are sold to support the fight against poverty in the U.S. To learn more or to purchase the cards, click here.
My mother, Pat, grew up during the dustbowl depression and to say her family was poor would be an understatement. Still, you wouldn’t know it hearing her talk about it. Her family played games, sang songs, recited poetry and my mom had an exceptional teacher who lit her up when it came to learning.
My mom was the only one in her family to graduate from college and she put herself through school working in the cafeteria. She went on to lead a very adventurous and she would say exceptional life.
Growing up in West Virginia, I witnessed a different kind of poverty — a more difficult kind of poverty. It was a more dyed-in-the-wool, resigned-to-helplessness that permeated the forgotten communities in the mountains.
It was thinking about this gap between my mother’s hopeful, forward-looking childhood and the quiet acceptance I saw in kids a town or two away from mine that led me to my work with Save The Children’s U.S. Programs.
Children in this country start kindergarten when they are five- or six-years-old. My daughters donʼt really understand this yet, but they’ve already won.
Here is why: kids growing up in poverty have heard, by the time they turn four, 30 million fewer words than my kids.
They are developmentally 18 months behind their middle class counterparts.
If you think like a two and a half year old when you’re four, imagine where you are when you start kindergarten. Itʼs too late; weʼve already lost them.
A few months ago, I visited one of Save the Children’s sites in Yucca Valley, California, one of nearly 200 rural and often forgotten communities that we serve across the southwest and southeast, many of which are very much places like the mountains of West Virginia. Yucca, though, is quite different — it’s a sparse, desert community.
The poverty rate for infants and toddlers in Yucca is double the rate in the rest of California.
I visited the home of 11-month-old Matthew, whose young parents earn well below the national poverty threshold of $22,000 per year. They live in a small home, isolated from other families. I read to Matthew alongside one of Save the Children’s home visit coordinators.
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Jen has yet another talk show appearance which is happening next week! She will be on Jimmy Kimmel on February 2!
Th 2/2: Jennifer Garner, Tim Heidecker & Eric Wareheim
ETA: Jen is no longer listed to appear on Jimmy Kimmel this week.Tweet
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Check out this backstage video of Jen with Bryan at Jay Leno last night:
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Check out Jennifer’s interview on Jay Leno. She also appears in Ross Mathews’ interview and participates in part of it as well. So I posted them all:
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Check out this preview of Jennifer on Jay Leno tonight! Thanks to Chandula for the heads up!
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According to IMDB, Butter will have a limit release in theatres on March 16!
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Jennifer will be on Jay Leno on January 18:
We 1/18: Jennifer Garner, Ross Matthews, Parachute
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With Hollywood breakups running rampant, what’s the secret to Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck’s successful seven-year relationship?
“We both know we couldn’t do what we do without each other,” the actress says in the January issue of InStyle, on sale Friday. “Ben always says, ‘If you love it, we can make it happen.’ ”
Of course, jewelry helps, too! Affleck, 39, enjoys showering his wife with diamonds. He gave her a pair of pink and white diamond Harry Winston bands, one for each of their two daughters, Violet, 6, and Seraphina, who turns 3 next month.
“He knows when to swoop in with the gesture. He’s sweet that way,” Garner says. “Honestly, I would do anything for that man, because I know it’s not taken for granted.”
Also not taken for granted is their growing family. The actress, who is expecting her third child, calls pregnancy at age 39 “a game changer.”
Garner admitted to having a difficult first trimester, complete with nausea, exhaustion and junk-food cravings.
“My kids had never seen Doritos before. They would say, ‘Mom, where did you get that orange chip? I really want that,’ ” she says. “I wish I was one of those cute pregnant girls who wear skinny jeans throughout their pregnancies. But I just gain weight.”
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