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 [...]
Does Your Child Hear You?
My daughter-in-law is an early childhood educator and a doctoral candidate in Reading at the University of Virginia. She sent me this link to the American-Speech-Language-Hearing Association, an organization that educates about and advocates for early detection and access to resources for young chidren with hearing disabilities.
Hearing loss can have a profound effect on your child’s ability [...]