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Archive for October 2017

Raising Adopted Children

What is adoption? When you adopt a child, you become the child’s legal parent and the child becomes a member of your family. Your adopted child has the same rights as any biological child – for example, he has the right to inherit your property and he gets to take on your surname. The child’s…

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Single Motherhood

Single parent families are becoming more common but don’t carry the stigma they once did. You can become a single parent through divorce, separation, the death of a partner or for other reasons. Following divorce or separation, it is often the mother who is the resident parent, with children spending time with both parents separately.…

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Co-Parenting

Your relationship might have ended, with your former partner, but you’re both still parents to your child. It’s usually in your child’s best interests if your co-parenting arrangements keep you both involved in your child’s life. Creating new parenting arrangements when a relationship breaks down, wasn’t easy, especially if there are strong feelings and unresolved…

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Discrimination

In human social affairs, discrimination is treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person based on the group, class, or category to which the person is perceived to belong rather than on individual attributes. This includes treatment of an individual or group, based on their actual or perceived…

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What is the GED?

GED stands for the General Educational Development tests. The GED test is your chance to get the job or career you want. These exams are taken by individuals who did not earn a high school diploma and cover four main subject areas. The successful completion of these tests provides the same benefits as graduating high…

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Oral Care

Caregivers/teachers should promote the habit of regular tooth brushing. All children with teeth should brush or have their teeth brushed with a soft toothbrush. Children under three years of age should have only a small smear (grain of rice) of fluoride toothpaste on the brush when brushing. Children ages three and older should use a…

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Environmental Health

Environmental health is the field that studies how substances or other environmental factors have an impact on human health. The presence of naturally occurring and man-made chemicals in the air, water, food, pesticides, cleaning products, furniture, and buildings/homes is relevant to early care and education settings. Other important factors include pests, weather, allergens such as…

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Importance of Immunization

Early education and child care settings present unique challenges for infection control due to the highly vulnerable population, close interpersonal contact, shared toys and other objects, and limited ability of young children to understand or practice good respiratory etiquette and hand hygiene. Routine immunizations at the appropriate age are the best means of protecting children…

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Battery Intervention

What Is Battering? Battering includes multiple types of psychological, physical, and/or sexual abuses such as physical violence, manipulation, threats, emotional abuse, intimidation, economic coercion, isolation, and/or the assertion of privilege. In many cases, battering is not the result of mental illness, anger, or the influence of drugs or alcohol. Rather, it is a learned behavior that is often motivated by…

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Income

Income is the consumption and savings opportunity gained by an entity within a specified time frame, which is generally expressed in monetary terms. However, for individuals and households, income is the sum of all the salaries, wages, profits, payments, interests, rents, and other forms of earnings received in a given period of time. Most people…

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