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…
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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…
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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…
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Importance of Play and Building Social Skills
Developing social skills in children prepares them for a lifetime of healthier interactions in all aspects of life. An integral part of functioning in society is social skills. Communicating effectively with others, displaying good manners, being considerate of the feelings of others and expressing…
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Child Stages of Development
Child development is a child’s ability to learn and master skills called milestones as he gets older. A milestone in child development is a skill that a child learns at a specific stage of development. The acquisition of milestones occurs…
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Meditation – A Parent's Guide
Parenting would be easy if kids came with manuals, and they behaved according to those manuals. But, they don’t. Kids are curious, uninhibited, creative, eager, unpredictable, energetic, loving and they are learning in very short time absolutely astounding amounts of…
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