Free Pamphlet – How the Law Treats Your Teenager Now That She’s Turned 18
If your teenager is about to become an “adult” — that is, is about to turn 18 years old — he or she needs to know how the laws affect their new adult status. The Virginia State Bar has a free pamphlet with information about the new adult’s rights and responsibilities.
It’s called So You’re 18 [...]
How to Help Your Child Deal With Bullies
A friend recently sent me a short article on bullying. I don’t know about you, but there were several bullies in my school when I was growing up. We all knew who they were, and we knew what would happen if we didn’t do what they wanted — give them our lunch money, let them [...]
Bullying – A Problem At Your Child’s School?
NPR recently did a story on bullying and how Frederick County, Maryland school system has addressed the problem. It has adopted the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, developed by the Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life at Clemson University, and made it part of the school culture, rather than just a topic at an occasional assembly. [...]
What If Your Child Gets Lost In A Store?
Stephanie, a young friend of mine, works part time in a large book store. She recently wrote about an incident that happened while she was at work, and I thought parents ought to know about CODE ADAM. Here’s the note she wrote to me:
From working in Barnes and Noble I have learned about Code Adam, [...]
Keeping Your Child Safe in Your Car – Resources
Car Information
Car Safety Seats Information – Detailed guidelines for children based on age and weight with illustrations sponsored by Healthychildren.org
Kids And Cars –This website helps prevent accidental vehicular injuries by offering educational information, technological devices, and a breadth of news stories.
Safe Kids
Safe Kids USA is part of a worldwide group of organizations that works to prevent childhood injuries.
Information about the two chapters and nine coalitions in Virginia can be found at Safe Kids of Virginia. Each of the chapters and coalitions actively work to prevent unintentional injuries in children by addressing risk areas that are significant [...]
Helping Children Recover
After a child has been injured, parents can find themselves at a loss for how to help their child recover. AfterTheInjury.org is a website of The Center for Injury Research and Prevention at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. It was created to help parents understand their child’s reactions to injury and learn what they can [...]
Talking Helps Your Child to Heal
We all want our children to get well after an injury. This article talks about the how critically important it is that parents be open to help injured children heal.
Read
Reading to your child can be one of the most rewarding and valuable gifts you can give — even before they know that’s what you are doing!
When they are very young, you and they just enjoy each other’s presence. It’s a time of interacting and being physically close — and laughing and enjoying each other.
As [...]
The Loss of a Child
There is nothing more devastating than the loss of a child.
Period.
Chuck Collins, a fellow member of the Fairfax Bar Association, wrote a book and created a website, both called Holding Onto Love. Both are full of resources for grieving parents, and the website offers an exchange of coping ideas and comments from others. Chuck and [...]