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Gun Safety: What You Need to Know to Keep Your Child Safe
In light of the Newtown, Connecticut tragedy, a common safety topic that has been discussed in the news, amongst ourselves, and between patients and their pediatrician is how a family can keep their children safe from guns. Research and statistics tell us that the best way to reduce the chance that a child is hurt or killed from a gun is to simply not have a gun in the home. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the safest home for a child is a home without a gun.
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As extracurricular activities get underway, remember what’s important
As the school year revs into high gear again, our schedules have already begun to fill up with activities: sports practices and games, after-school clubs, tutoring, Boys Scouts, Girl Scouts, youth groups. Sometimes it feels like a full-time job just getting kids to and from all of their extracurricular activities. It’s not too difficult to become a slave to our children’s schedules.
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School is in session. Are you ready?
Every summer seems to bring it’s own challenges: keeping the kids busy, finding the right camps and activities for them, and hopefully having a little family fun - all within two months! Even though the summers are busy, they bring us all a breather from homework, science projects, making lunches, teacher conferences, after school practices, reading every night (oh, wait, we were supposed to do that all summer, too, right?!). And suddenly, here we are, it’s mid August and whether we are ready or not, it’s time to jump into another school year.
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Keep your kids movin'!
Growing up, recess was always one of my favorite times during the day. It was a chance to catch a break from the classroom and run around and play with my friends. And in my playground, there were so many activities to choose from! Do we play fort in the tire tower, or a friendly game of soccer? Or do we simply find a spot in the shade and talk about “life’s problems”?
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Learning to say, "I'm sorry"
A couple of weeks ago, this scenario played out in my house:
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Preventing Child Abuse in Organizations and Youth Programs
There are some advantages to having an adult child (The primary disadvantage is that I really feel old now that he’s an adult!). One of the advantages is that I no longer have to worry about him suffering child abuse while in the care of others. We were fortunate that the adults in his life at school, after-care, summer camps, art classes, sports and religious school were talented and caring.
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The best Spring Break of my life
I just had the best Spring Break of my life. I’ve had some pretty good Spring Breaks, too, once in college, I was lucky enough to go on a cruise, and over the years, there have been various trips to the beach, and so on… However, this year was definitely my favorite Spring Break to date.
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Webinar on "Sudden Cardiac Arrest: what every parent should know" with Dr. Schwartz
Sudden cardiac arrest. Those are three frightening words. And they are even scarier when they apply to children.
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What can we do to really PREVENT child abuse?
As you are driving around in the next few weeks, you may see clusters of blue and silver pinwheels in front of local businesses and organizations. These pinwheel gardens are displayed for the purpose of calling attention to April as Child Abuse Prevention Month. As someone who works in a program that provides counseling to children who have been abused, I would like nothing better than to work myself out of a job—to reduce child abuse and neglect to a point where programs like The Orange County Children’s Advocacy Center are not needed.
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Talking to your kids about pedestrian safety
We’ve all heard them before. And if you’re a parent, admit it. You’ve probably said them at least a few times by now:
