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Image: http://www.collier.k12.fl.us/ Keeping Kids Safe NetSmartz.org Keeping Kids Safe Online is serious business. Recent incidents involving Internet crimes against children have been prominent in the media. In some incidents, the crimes have involved suspects and victims who met each other on social networking or blogging sites such as MySpace, Friendster, Xanga, and Facebook. The unprecedented…
Image: www.dialaphone.co.uk Tips for Parents and Guardians on Using Cellphones Safely Cellphone Safely can be fairly straightforward to grasp but difficult to enforce. Monitor your children’s wireless use just as you do their online computer use. Keep the lines of communication open with your children so they will be more likely to tell you if they…
Safe Toy Law? ~ NOT REALLY! Image: www.wildflowerorganics.com This weeks new law banning the use of phthalates in children’s toys is being hailed as a victory for children’s health. Phthalates is a chemical used to make plastic toys soft and flexible. [e.g., baby rattles, pacifiers] Remember “Stretch Armstrong?” The issue with phthalates is that the…
Image: farm2.static.flickr.com Is Stranger Danger A Myth? Is “stranger danger”—dangers that threaten our kids come mostly from strangers—really a myth? Yes. In the majority of cases, the perpetrator is someone the parents or child knows, and that person may be in a position of trust or responsibility to the child and family. Who Really Is…
> Image mcb.web.psi.ch/teaching/Teaching.gif Recognize A Teachable Moment A moment of educational opportunity: a time at which a person, especially a child, is likely to be particularly disposed to learn something or particularly responsive to being taught or made aware of something. I sometimes think that one of the most challenging and important skills of being…
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