Sentences with phrase «child about the risks»

Erie County Legislator Lynne Dixon is hosting a District Outreach Meeting during National Poison Prevention Week (March 18 - 24) in an effort to educate adults and children about the risks presented in their everyday lives.

Erie County Legislator Edward A. Rath, III is hosting a District Outreach Meeting during National Poison Prevention Week (March 18 - 24) in an effort to educate adults and children about the risks presented in their everyday lives.

We do the necessary risk assessments, and within this framework we teach the children about the risks and how to be safe, gradually building their understanding and ability to make their own judgements.

For the past two years, Demos, supported by GambleAware, developed and tested a pilot education programme to teach children about the risks of gambling, and where to go for help and support.

As well as having robust health and safety procedures and policies, schools should teach children about risk, safety and health so they have the skills to keep themselves and others safe

While there are minimum legal standards and commensurate penalties for schools that get it completely wrong, the purpose of schools is education, so teaching children about risk, safety, health and welfare is a critical factor in delivering effective life education.

Talk to your child about the risks of sharing, identifying where they live or go to school, and what people online might do with that information.

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Globally, about 800 million people are at risk of hunger — this includes children, seniors, families and military veterans.

«Children should be learning about money management and debt from their school or family, not from irresponsible payday loan ads which make these high cost high risk loans seem like a normal way of managing money.

Although parents (and indeed governors and teachers) are often uneasy about early or explicit SRE or providing access to family planning services, their feelings are sometimes ambiguous due to a concern that, if they do not follow such a course, children will be at greater risk of underage pregnancy.

Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.

As I mentioned in my post, «2016 and the Risk of Birth,» in revisiting Madeleine L'Engle's Genesis Trilogy, I've been struck by how forthcoming the author is about her own fears around raising children during the Cold War.

Gov. Christie has expressed concern about this bill's effects on how parents raise their children, but said that research has made it clear that this sort of therapy poses «critical health risks including, but not limited to, depression, substance abuse, social withdrawal, decreased self - esteem and suicidal thoughts.»

He added: «The most effective way to deal with it is to accept that it is there, to educate ourselves as best we can about both the benefits and the risks of online activity and to seek to engage our children and young people in meaningful regular dialogue about those issues.»

Secular organizations do have much to learn from men like Rivers and Madison about how personal, intense interaction based on core beliefs changes lives, especially the lives of at - risk children.

ABOUT BOOKS FOR KIDS The mission of Books for Kids is to promote literacy among all children with a special emphasis on low - income and at - risk preschool - aged children.

Another argument against the banning of junk food advertising to children claims that assertions about causal influences of food advertising on children's diets and weight are flawed because they do not take into consideration other risk factors.

About Vitamin Angels: Vitamin Angels helps at - risk populations in need, focusing on pregnant women, new mothers, and children under five, while gaining access to revolutionary vitamins and minerals.

In this way, it is my goal to reduce the risk of concussions and related head injuries to the athletes that we care most about — our children.

Putting dads in the data: why the UK needs a rethink on family statistics The Government should review data collection on families by all publicly - funded bodies, which currently risk failing millions of children because they typically gather such weak information about fathers.

Mr. Tough presents a thoughtful strategy to help those children most at risk, and it left me feeling hopeful about the huge difference we can make in the lives of those who have little opportunity.»

Experts are saying older men shouldn't worry about their higher risk of fathering a child with bipolar disorder (men 45 + are 25x more likely than a man in his 20s to father a child with bipolar disorder) because it's such a rare disease but recent studies show it's not rare at all and affects 4 - 5 % of the population.

As someone who has been educating sports parents about head trauma in sports for the past seventeen years, and about the very real risk posed by chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) for the last decade, it is not surprising that I receive emails from parents all the time expressing deep concern about stories in the media that have led them - wrongly - to fear that playing contact or collision sports, or suffering a sports - related concussion, especially one slow to heal, makes it inevitable that their child will develop CTE and is at greatly increased risk of committing suicide.

In addition to educating young athletes about both the importance of hydration and the dangers of heat - related illness, ensuring that they drink enough fluids, and taking precautions to reduce the risk of heat injury in children in hot and humid weather, you need to watch your child for symptoms of impending heat illness:

In addition to educating young athletes about both the importance of hydration and the dangers of heat - related illness, ensuring that they drink enough fluids, and taking precautions to reduce the risk of heat injury in children, especially when they are exercising in hot and humid weather, parents and coaches need to watch children for signs and symptoms of impending heat illness:

NYU School of Medicine associate professor Leonardo Trasande, MD / MPP, spoke to Kids in the House about what substances put your child at risk.

The swing snaps together easily and screws in place firmly so you don't have to worry about any potential risk of injury when your child uses it.

Talk to your child's doctor to learn more about lead exposure prevention and how to evaluate your child's risk.

UPPAbaby recalled about 79,000 strollers when it discovered children could bite off a piece of the rubber coating on the bumper bar, posing a choking risk.

We're not talking about examples of helicopter parenting run amok such as parents of college - age kids calling professors to argue about grades; but not supervising 9 - year - olds at all to the point that parents don't know who their friends are or what they are doing is not only opening a child up to potential risks and bad choices, but making them stressed as well.

In the end, it all comes back to education: In the ideal world, a parent's decision about whether to allow a child to start playing or continue playing collision sports before high school under current rules of play (which are evolving in the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participating.

With statistics showing that one in five children will grow up to develop skin cancer and that protecting skin from the sun during childhood and adolescence is important to reducing the risk of cancer later in life, it's vital that parents become educated about sun safety, take steps to protect their kids against the damaging effects of the sun and build safe sun habits into the family routine.

The other thing I want you to know is about a very disturbing statistic, that children who live in a home with a non-biologically related male - your boyfriend, a stepfather, a stepbrother, have 11 times the risk of sexual, physical or emotional abuse.

Specifically, for fathers, higher expectations about their children's educational level, and greater level / frequency of interest and direct involvement in children's learning, education and schools, are associated strongly with better educational outcomes for their children, including: • better exam / test / class results • higher level of educational qualification • greater progress at school • better attitudes towards school (e.g. enjoyment) • higher educational expectations • better behaviour at school (e.g. reduced risk of suspension or expulsion)(for discussion / review of all this research, see Goldman, 2005).

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There are all kinds of horrible truths about the risks to children and as much as I'd like to be blissfully unaware, as a responsible parent, I owe it to my child to understand all the dangers so that I can at least try to keep her safe.

Babywearing is getting more and more popular with each passing year, but if you're thinking about participating in it, it's important to understand some of the safety requirements to do so correctly without posing a risk to your child.

Numerous health bodies are raising concerns about the risks of prolonging the bottle feeding period and the use of sweetened products, not least their impact on children's eating habits and taste profiles and of course obesity.

Understanding all the possible risks and benefits is a crucial step toward making the right decision about anything you may change in your child's diet or lifestyle.

Help us broadcast this message and insure that child welfare workers and service providers, who work with high risk moms throughout the country, know about and can easily access our unique services.

Indeed, while parents worry about «stranger danger», they often fail to realise two things: their children can be more at risk from online grooming and sexting, and that according to one children's charity they are actually 90 per cent more likely to be abducted by someone they know than a stranger.

As long as no one's children are at risk of being neglected or abused (or their choices affect the well - being of your children), live and let live — just don't talk about it.

Now, I'll give the readers here credit for catching the part where they flashed up on the screen a nice graphic stating that you COULD put an extra ice pack or two into the lunch and probably «decrease the risk,» but I think talking about how not even an ice pack, or refrigeration at many day cares, is enough to keep your child from possibly coming down with foodborne illness could be enough to make some less conscious parents throw up their hands in disgust and say «I give up.»

Once your child is about age 2 or older, the doctor may suggest something called transcranial doppler ultrasonography, which creates a picture of the brain that can help determine whether your baby is at high risk for a stroke.

You're typically placed on bed rest for a high - risk pregnancy, so this immediately makes you worry about your future child's safety.

You can have the higher risk of being the woman who has a not so rosy memories about her forceps delivery / c - section / pitocin or you can run the higher risk of being the woman who, when asked how many children she has says, «I have 2 living children.»

You making this statement shows exactly how unrealistic and naive you are about the risks of homebirth and the risks you've taken with your own child.

I have been reading a lot about attachment parenting pros and cons.I think that the pros are obvious.the cons however are if the parents decide they can not continue with for example co sleepng it is very hard on the child to then have to learn to sleep alone before they are confident enough to do so.for working parents the seperation to a carer is very hard and also helping parents to read the signs properly that their child wants to explore freely when they are used to protecting their little one.these are all things parents need to be aware of when adapting this form of parenting.I like it very much but I am a professional childcarer with additional childcare knowledge too and though parents always know their own child best risk for example is always an immotive subject to get across to parents that their little one needs to experience risk within of course a safe environment.

The weather is hot, families are out and about, and the risk of injury and illness for children is up.

Much more is known about the harmful effects on babies whose mothers drink during pregnancy than on the children of mothers who drink and breastfeed, but there are some risks we know about from research: