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Foster Grandparents Facts: Did you know?
According to the Child Welfare League of America, nearly 6 million children in the United States are being raised by a grandparent or other relative.
Regardless of cultural, religious, or ethnic backgrounds, all kinship caregivers have many of the same concerns. A few of these concerns may include financial support, emotional, mental and physical health, education, relationships with biological parents, medical services, health care and child care
Seven Steps to Protecting Children from Sexual Abuse and Child Predators
(downloadable pdf brochure)
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With all the events re-focusing us too many times each month/year/decade on tragic child abductions, assaults and murders, including the JonBenet Ramsey murder and the arrest (and release) of alleged pedophile John Mark Karr, it behooves parents, educators, child care providers to see through the media hysteria to the reality of what our children face and to the realistic steps we can take — as individuals and as community members to protect ALL our children from pedophiles, predators, and other potential dangers.
Experts estimate that 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys will experience some form of sexual abuse before their 18th birthday. One in five children will be sexually solicited on the internet. Almost all children will experience some form of sexual aggression, harassment or teasing.
Darkness2Light has created an excellent, straightforward, easy to understand downloadable PDF to help parents, teachers, grandparents, foster parents and other caregivers recognize, prevent, and deal with the ever-growing threat of childhood sexual abuse effectively. They also provide trainings and information at their website, including FREE online trainings (during their prevent-a-thon).
Please share this excellent brochure with others via email or send them a link to this website.
You can download Darkness to Light's 7 Steps to Protecting our Children by right-clicking on the image below or link and choosing "Save Target As" or "Download Linked File" for macs.
Download the 7 Steps to Protecting our Children: Guiding Responsible Adults to Prevent, Recognize and React Responsibly to Child Sexual Abuse. You will need the free software Adobe Acrobat to view the file.
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Forty Developmental Assets for Youth
positive experiences and personal qualities
that young people need to grow up
healthy, caring, and responsible.
Improvements Needed in the Diets
of Infants and Toddlers
Findings from the Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study, a national study on the eating habits of more than 3,000 U.S. children ages 4-24 months, showed that infants and toddlers are consuming too many calories and eating inappropriate foods.
Although meeting their minimum vitamin and mineral requirements, many babies are eating an unhealthy diet, including high-calorie foods such as french fries and sweetened beverages. One-fourth to one-third of children six months of age ate no fruits or vegetables on a given day, and over half of toddlers consumed too much sodium.
Read more about the study at mathematica-mpr.com
Promising Practices research on this topic here.
Food for Thought:
Fancy, Shiny Child Care Settings Don't Necessarily Equal Excellence for Children
Most parents and grandparents in the USA probably think that cleanliness and order are among the most important qualities in a child care setting. Unfortunately for children they're wrong.
It's not that these qualities aren't nice, they're just not the most important things to look for in a preschool setting for young, developing children.In upcoming segments, we'll be exploring the characteristics of high-quality, developmentally and culturally appropriate child care and how to find a good fit for your children. Books for Parents & Children
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