There is no known safe amount of alcohol to drink while pregnant. There is also no safe time during pregnancy to drink and no safe kind of alcohol. CDC urges pregnant women not to drink alcohol any time during pregnancy.
For more on this topic, visit: http://www.cdc.gov/Features/AlcoholFree/
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Nurse Home Visitation Program Reduces Girls' Potential Criminality Later in Life
Girls whose mothers were visited at home by nurses during pregnancy and the children's infancy appear less likely to enter the criminal justice system by age 19, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
"Preventive interventions for parents of young children that improve parental competencies and the early learning environment of the child hold considerable promise as a means of reducing health and developmental problems across the life course and associated costs to government and society," the authors write as background information in the article. Home visitation services that focus on promoting a mother's health and teaching caregiving skills during pregnancy and infancy have received attention recently but have not been assessed over the long term.
Read more online at: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100104161756.htm
"Preventive interventions for parents of young children that improve parental competencies and the early learning environment of the child hold considerable promise as a means of reducing health and developmental problems across the life course and associated costs to government and society," the authors write as background information in the article. Home visitation services that focus on promoting a mother's health and teaching caregiving skills during pregnancy and infancy have received attention recently but have not been assessed over the long term.
Read more online at: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100104161756.htm
Creating Effective Parent-Practitioner Partnerships
The FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention is pleased to announce a new online course, Creating Effective Parent-Practitioner Partnerships, has been added to the FRIENDS Online Learning Center.
Parent Leadership is a strength-based approach to family support that is founded on the belief that parents are knowledgeable about their families and communities and can provide valuable insight into programmatic and community decision-making to benefit children and families. Upon completion of this course you will be able to:
To learn more about the FRIENDS Online Learning Center visit www.friendsnrc.org/resources/onlinelearn.htm or go directly to the Online Learning Center at www.cequick.com/myeln/FRIENDS/default.asp
Parent Leadership is a strength-based approach to family support that is founded on the belief that parents are knowledgeable about their families and communities and can provide valuable insight into programmatic and community decision-making to benefit children and families. Upon completion of this course you will be able to:
- Define the roles and list the benefits of parent leadership.
- Describe common fears and barriers of parent leadership.
- Explain basic principles and guidelines of parent leadership.
To learn more about the FRIENDS Online Learning Center visit www.friendsnrc.org/resources/onlinelearn.htm
Emergency Preparedness for Families and Children
Disaster Preparedness
View more presentations from Michelle Gross.
Find more information online at: http://www.disability.gov/emergency_preparedness/personal_preparedness/home
Website: Early Intervention for Young Children with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, and Other Disabilies
This website provides guidelines for early intervention to maximize the language and communication development of young children with special needs including:
- Infants
- Toddlers
- Preschoolers
- Autism spectrum disorders
- Cerebral palsy
- Down syndrome
- Multiple disabilities
- Step-by-step guidelines for early intervention to build language and communication skills
- Photographs and videotaped examples of intervention with young children with special needs
Monday, January 4, 2010
Eight Steps to Connected Parenting
The term connected parenting describes relatively new trend in parenting that aims to bring children up with love and peace, contrary to popular belief that children should be brought up in discipline based on fear. It doesn't mean that we, parents loose control over our child but instead, we give them feeling that they have some more control on their life and by that we are gaining their cooperation.
Read more online at: http://www.squidoo.com/connectedparenting
Read more online at: http://www.squidoo.com/connectedparenting
New Year Changes for Your Business (or Nonprofit)
From the Big Thinking for Small Business Blog
Welcome back to work. We all have files and little things that must be updated each year. I won’t even presume to guess what spreadsheets or documents need to be updated at your place.
Here is a checklist as 2009 flips over to 2010.
* Change the copyright date on your customer-facing websites. Nothing says dated like a 3 year old copyright footer.
* Check your web forms. If any of them (or your paper forms) were configured as 200_, last week was a good time to change them.
* Postage rates rise today. Check out the official USPS site for postage increases. If you are a big mailer and haven’t updated your budget, now would be a good time. Cash flow projections too.
* A new tax year has started. Talk with your tax consultant or accountant, but if you were supposed to change your withholding or take any payroll actions, you should be dealing with that issue now.
* My personal favorite for businesses with more than a handful of employees. Every application that can be logged in from outside (even a blog) should be scrubbed for user name entries and passwords for former contractors, vendors and employees. You should regularly do this, but using the beginning of the year as a double-check is a good reminder.
* The IRS last month established 50 cents as the 2010 mileage rate for deductions. Change your expense reporting.
Read the blog online at: http://www.sbmteam.com/blog/new-year
Welcome back to work. We all have files and little things that must be updated each year. I won’t even presume to guess what spreadsheets or documents need to be updated at your place.
Here is a checklist as 2009 flips over to 2010.
* Change the copyright date on your customer-facing websites. Nothing says dated like a 3 year old copyright footer.
* Check your web forms. If any of them (or your paper forms) were configured as 200_, last week was a good time to change them.
* Postage rates rise today. Check out the official USPS site for postage increases. If you are a big mailer and haven’t updated your budget, now would be a good time. Cash flow projections too.
* A new tax year has started. Talk with your tax consultant or accountant, but if you were supposed to change your withholding or take any payroll actions, you should be dealing with that issue now.
* My personal favorite for businesses with more than a handful of employees. Every application that can be logged in from outside (even a blog) should be scrubbed for user name entries and passwords for former contractors, vendors and employees. You should regularly do this, but using the beginning of the year as a double-check is a good reminder.
* The IRS last month established 50 cents as the 2010 mileage rate for deductions. Change your expense reporting.
Read the blog online at: http://www.sbmteam.com/blog/new-year
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