Teach Your Children to Self-Protect

Teach your child to recognize danger: who, what and where.

Tawfique Al Tazim

Who: Somebody they don't know or don't  trust asking them to do something they don't want to do. Strangers are not only the creepy looking men in trench coats. They can be anyone. Many kids are abducted by a family friend or acquaintance.

What: Adults do not ask children for help. That should be a warning sign that something is wrong. Your children should also be aware of anybody who asks them to get in a car or go somewhere with them, or anyone who crosses a boundary, such as touching them or invading their personal space. Teach your child to not give people the benefit of the doubt. Instead, teach your child to gather information and trust his or her instincts.

Where: If someone asks your child to go to a second location, that should set bells off in his or her head. If your child is alone and an adult approaches him or her, that is not a good sign.

The Buddy System: Kids should never be alone, even for a minute. They should always be with a friend or two, because there is strength in numbers.

React: Children must also know that it is OK for them to say no. They shouldn't worry about being polite. If the feel they are in danger or something is not right, they should move in the opposite direction, yell, scream and ask for help. Rehearse this with your children by asking them how they would react in certain situations. Don't tell them how to react. For example, ask them what they would do if they are at bus stop and a car pulls up offering a ride.

Communicate: It's imperative that you establish a line of communication with your kids about anything they don't feel comfortable talking about.

From:http://drphil.com/articles/article/623

5 Steps to Change Your Child's Attitude

Your child may seem to act quite different at times, and quite bossy as well. Controlling that is a great skill, so become the power parent you are and change your child's attitude. My attitude about her determined her behavior. By changing my attitude towards her, her attitude towards me changed as well. 

1.Understand your child.

2.Understand what makes your child act the way they do.

3.Find the root cause of the attitude issues.

4.Let your child know that you are trying to help them, and that you are on their side.

5.Let your child know, straight up, if they're not changing, that you don't appreciate their attitude.

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Children develop skills in five main areas of development

Child development is a process every child goes through. This process involves learning and mastering skills like sitting, walking, talking, skipping, and tying shoes.

Children develop skills in five main areas of development:

1. Cognitive Development
   This is the child's ability to learn and solve problems. For example, this includes a two-month-old baby learning to explore the environment with hands or eyes or a five-year-old learning how to do simple math problems.
   
2. Social and Emotional Development
   This is the child's ability to interact with others, including helping themselves and self-control. Examples of this type of development would include: a six-week-old baby smiling, a ten-month-old baby waving bye-bye, or a five-year-old boy knowing how to take turns in games at school.
   
   
3. Speech and Language Development
   This is the child's ability to both understand and use language. For example, this includes a 12-month-old baby saying his first words, a two-year-old naming parts of her body, or a five-year-old learning to say "feet" instead of "foots".
   
   
4. Fine Motor Skill Development
   This is the child's ability to use small muscles, specifically their hands and fingers, to pick up small objects, hold a spoon, turn pages in a book, or use a crayon to draw.
   
   
5. Gross Motor Skill Development
   This is the child's ability to use large muscles. For example, a six-month-old baby learns how to sit up with some support, a 12-month-old baby learns to pull up to a stand holding onto furniture, and a five-year-old learns to skip. 

From:http://www.howkidsdevelop.com

President Clinton and Children's Health Act

The Children's Health Act of 2000 (Pub.L. 106–310, 114 Stat. 1101, enacted October 17, 2000), signed by President Clinton on October 17, 2000, was brought into law to conduct a study focusing on children from before conception to 21 years of age.

Implications:

Some highlights of the Act include:

1.The Children's Day Care Health and Safety Act.
2.The Safe Schools/Health Students Initiative.
3.The Healthy Start Program.
4.Efforts to ensure safe and quality mental health treatment.

The aim of this study was to track the health of 100 000 children from before conception to their 21st birthday and learn the influence of environment, including physical, chemical, biological, and psychosocial factors, on children’s health and development.

Funding:

 the cost of this study was approximately $2.7 billion over a span of 25 years.Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the US Environmental Protection Agency.The 2010 reports show that $414.3 million has been secured and the program is still up and running and showing stability for the years to come.

From:http://en.wikipedia.org/

Brest milk takes on the flavor of foods

Brest milk is very important food every children other than baby food is soft and simply consumed food between the ages of six months to two years.Home made food is better then other shop or manufacturer.Breast milk takes on the flavor of foods eaten by the mother, these foods are especially good choices.

infants should be uniquely breastfed for the first six months of life to achieve optimal growth, development and health.Most six-month-old infants are physiologically and developmentally ready for new foods, textures and modes of feeding.

Easily chewed food since babies lack developed muscles and teeth to effectively chew. Babies typically move to consuming baby food once nursing or formula is not sufficient for the child's appetite. Babies do not need to have teeth to transition to eating solid foods.

American babies are fed baby food before the age of four months.

Food type:

1.Cereals
2.Fruits
3.Vegetables
4.Meat
5.Sweet and salty foods

Understanding the Teen Years

So when, exactly, does adolescence start? The message to send your kid is: Everybody's different. There are early bloomers, late arrivers, speedy developers, and slow-but-steady growers. In other words, there's a wide range of what's considered normal.

But it's important to make a (somewhat artificial) distinction between puberty and adolescence. Most of us think of puberty as the development of adult sexual characteristics: breasts, menstrual periods, pubic hair, and facial hair. These are certainly the most visible signs of puberty and impending adulthood, but kids who are showing physical changes (between the ages of 8 and 14 or so) also can be going through a bunch of changes that aren't readily seen from the outside. These are the changes of adolescence.

Many kids announce the onset of adolescence with a dramatic change in behavior around their parents. They're starting to separate from Mom and Dad and to become more independent. At the same time, kids this age are increasingly aware of how others, especially their peers, see them and are desperately trying to fit in. Their peers often become much more important, as compared with their parents, in terms of making decisions.

Kids often start "trying on" different looks and identities, and they become very aware of how they differ from their peers, which can result in episodes of distress and conflict with parents.

From:kidshealth.org

e-Learning for Kids is an interactive education system

E-learning is a learning method for digital technology.It is technology base learning method.It is most effective way for every children.Every childminders interested in technology,like as mobile,computer,Laptop,iPad etc.e-Learning for Kids is an interactive education system for children to promote their intellectual development.

E-learning includes numerous types of media that deliver text, audio, images, animation, and streaming video,includes technology applications and processes such as audio or video tape, Live Streaming TV, CD-ROM, and computer-based learning, as well as local intranet/extra-net and web-based learning.

child can play games to learn the alphabet, to learn new words, to learn about numbers and colors, and even to learn about the animals.

Subject related arcades in math and reading, online games, books and comics and more fun.

Schools began to take advantage of the new medium by offering distance learning courses using computer networking for information.

Early e-learning systems, based on Computer-Based Learning/Training often attempted to replicate autocratic teaching styles whereby the role of the e-learning system was assumed to be for transferring knowledge, as opposed to systems developed later based on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), which encouraged the shared development of knowledge.

IT important part of Nursery learning

IT important part of learning

Under the curriculum for compulsory education, schools are responsible for ensuring that every student attending compulsory school is able to use modern technology as a tool in searching for knowledge, communication, creativity and learning. There is also a similar curriculum for upper secondary schools.

There is an average of six students per computer in municipal elementary schools and 4.5 students per computer in independent elementary schools. The figure is 2.5 students per computer for municipal upper secondary schools and 1.6 for independent upper secondary schools.

An average of 96 per cent of all schoolchildren say they have access to a computer and the internet at school.

Elementary school (lågstadiet) for years 1–3 is followed by middle school (mellanstadiet) for years 4–6 and then secondary school (junior high school, högstadiet) for years 7–9. Children between six and thirteen are also offered out-of-school care before and after school hours. This can be at an after-school centre, a family daycare home or an open after-school programme.

Millions of children are not fully protected

Every children have the right to protection. They have the right to sustain on self, to be secure, to associated with, to be heard, to receive, adequate, care and to grow up in a protective domain.A child's first line of protection should be the family. Parents or other caregivers are responsible for building a protective and loving home environment. Schools and communities are responsible for building a safe and child-friendly environment anywhere. In the family, educational Institute and community, children should be fully protected so they can survive, grow, learn and develop to their full up  budding.

All children have the right to protection and yet millions of children are not fully protected. Many of them deal with roughness,misuse,lack of concern, exploitation, disbarring and/or differentiation every day. Such violations limit their chances of surviving, growing, developing and be engaged in their dreams.

Understand the importance of child protection. In order to spread the message, it is important to know the facts. The basics are:

•  Every child should have the opportunity to grow up in own house environment. If a family is not able to care for the child, steps should be taken by the authorities to address the reasons and make every attempt  to keep the family together.

• Every child has a right to a name and nationality. Inscribing a child's birth helps to ensure a child's right to education, health care and legal and social services. Birth registration is a main step towards protection from abuse and exploitation.

• Girls and boys must be protected from all forms of violence and abuse. This includes physical, sexual and emotional abuse, neglect and harmful practices such as child marriage and genital mutilation/cutting of girls. Families, communities and  mastery are responsible for ensuring this protection.

• Children must be protected from all work that is insecure. Work should not prevent them from attending school. Children should never be involved in the beat forms of child labor, such as enslavement, forced labour, drug production or trafficking.

•  Girls and boys can be at risk of sexual abuse and exploitation in their home, school, workplace or community. Measures should be taken to prevent sexual abuse and exploitation. Sexually abused and exploited children need immediate help to stop such abuse.

•  Children are vulnerable to trafficking where protection for children is weak or missing. The government, civil society and families are responsible for preventing trafficking, as well as helping children who are victims to reintegrate into their families and communities, if it is in their best interest.

• Justice for children should be based on child rights. Strip children of their liberty (incarcerating them) must always be a last resort. Procedures that are sensitive to children should be put in place for children who are victims or witnesses of injustice.

•  Income support and social welfare services can help keep families together and children in school and ensure access to health care.

 All children have a right to age-proper information, to be heard and to contribution in making decisions that concern them. Fulfillments of this right enables children to take an active role in their own protection against abuse, violence and exploitation, and to become active citizens.