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SECONDHAND SMOKE
WHAT IS SECONDHAND SMOKE?
When a person is smoking a cigarette cigar, or pipe, the smoke comes from two sources: the burning cigarette itself, and the smoke that the person exhales into the air. You can usually identify the odor from cigarettes when you enter a room where someone has been smoking. That is because the chemicals from that smoke stays on a person’s clothes, hair, furnishings, and curtains.
SAFETY - FALLING TVS
TODAY reports:
Falling TVs send a child to the ER every 30 minutes!
One of the most important things you can do as a parent is to make sure your diapering procedure and area are sanitary. Diseases can be spread by you or the child’s hands due to improper sanitary procedures during diapering.
Some diseases, viruses and parasites that can be spread are:
• Salmonella
• Shigella
• Campylobacter
• Giardia
• Crypto sporidia
• Rotavirus
• Norwalk virus
• Hepatitis A
Here are some important points to remember:
• Change diapers on a changing table or designated diapering area
Unfortunately teasing happens to children. It can happen in childcare despite the efforts of providers and parents. Children become very upset when teased or called a name. When a child is teased repeatedly in daycare they often do not want to attend. As a parent, you cannot always protect children from these harmful situations. However, you can teach your child strategies to help them cope with teasing. Young children who learn coping skills at an early age may be better prepared for more significant social challenges and conflicts in their preteen years.
As a parent, you want your child to be happy and have many friends. Many parents worry about how to help their child develop heathy socialization skills. Parents are eager to assist their child in their social development. Therefore, what you should expect at each age and how you can facilitate good socialization are two questions that we will discuss in this fact sheet.
THREE -YEAR -OLD CHILDREN
Your Child does not have to have mastered his ABC’s to begin getting him ready to read. You can help your child start developing the skills they need to be ready to read long before they reach kindergarten. Here are some tips which you can use to help your child progress.
• Sign up for a story time at your public library or local bookstore. Many of these places offer skilled storytellers who bring books to life using puppets, songs, and crafts. (You can also pick up a few tips for your read aloud sessions with your child).
Playing is an important part of a child’s development. When children are at play, they are free to explore and practice new roles. They are able to learn about a variety of materials, acquire social abilities, and learn to cope. Play helps children actively demonstrate what they feel and think about in all the different parts of their lives. Children take their play very seriously and the opportunities for varied types of play are necessary in any quality family childcare program.
Do you have a hard time getting your child to try new foods or to eat what is good for him?
PARENTS BE A GOOD ROLE MODEL
As a parent your children watch your every action and will imitate it. Babies learn how to speak listening to you. Your children learn social skills watching how you interact with others. How you act, react, and spend time with your child shapes their developement. Being the best role model you caa be is vitally important to the growth and development of your child.
QUALITIES OF A GOOD ROLE MODEL
The way you parent your child can directly affect your child’s self-esteem. This fact sheet will discuss three important parenting styles and the affect they have on your children.
PARENTIING STLES
AUTORITATIVE PARENTING STYLE
Authoritative parents display the following parenting traits:
• They listen to your children’s viewpoint. Listening does not always mean you are agreeing, however you are giving your child the respect to listen to their viewpoint.
Around the age of 2 ½ most children have all their primary teeth. Teaching your child good tooth brushing techniques will help your child adopt a good oral health routine. By 30 months of age, all of the primary (first) teeth should have come into the mouth. By age 3, most toddlers should have stopped using the pacifier and/or sucking his/her thumb.
STEPS TO TAKE TO INSTILL GOOD ORAL HEATH:
ORAL HEALTH - INFANTS
"Oral health is an important part of overall health, and good oral health starts with baby teeth. If your baby's mouth isn't healthy, then your baby is not going to be healthy." Dr. Russell Maier Family physician, University of Washington professor, and Washington Dental Service Foundation Board Member
As children grow and develop, they learn by imitating what they see you and older children do. Children learn how to interact with others by watching you. If your family environment treats everyone with consideration and respect, your child will learn through that example. A child will usually imitate their parents. You must set the example for acceptable social behavior. For example: When two children get into a fight over a toy, you need to demonstrate ways to solve the problem without hurting each other.
Did you know that some toys are loud enough to cause permanent hearing damage over time, says Gail Whitelaw, Ph.D. president of the American Academy of Audiology. Prolonged exposure to sounds over 85 decibels (the level of noise associated with busy city traffic, for example) can pose a threat to a child’s hearing and some toys are much louder than that. Cars and trucks with sirens can be some of the worst offenders, as are toy phones, microphones and instruments like horns and drums. Limit the amount of time children play with loud toys or remove the batteries.
According to Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner (1983), “Music intelligence is equal in importance to logical-mathematical intelligence, linguistic intelligence, spatial intelligence, bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, and intrapersonal intelligence”. This is because music promotes all of those things. When we are engaged in music, whether listening, moving along with it, singing or playing an instrument, we engage all parts of the brain. Left, right, front and back. That’s because the act of making music is a creative and cognitive skill.
Children can get MRSA, and it can be found in childcare settings. As a parent, you should be on aware of what MRSA is, how it is spread, and steps you can take to prevent it.
WHAT IS MRSA?
Toddlers between the ages of two to three years old are becoming little individuals. They let you know what they like and what they don’t like. They begin to act independently of you. Their language has developed and they are able to let you know what they want. Their favorite word may be, “No”.
Often toddlers will insist on doing things themselves. For example: they do not want to hold your hand in a parking lot, they want to try to dress themselves, and they want to hold their cup when drink by themselves. You often hear, “Me do it!”.
As a parent sending your child to childcare can be a daunting experience. There are some important legal issues for you and your child’s protection that you should make sure are in place when leaving your child with someone else in care.
CHILD CUSTODY LAWS
When children are small, they believe that their wishes are the most important. They believe that they should get what they want and that their feelings are what counts. Learning to respect the rights of others is a difficult lesson to learn.
HELPFUL HINTS FOR TEACHING YOUR CHILD RESPECT