NEW PLANS for a NEW YEAR! Check out these shows as you begin to do your own organizing #488 Preparing Middle Schoolers for Life, #482 Down Time, #363 Managing Our Kids' Screen Time, #337 Multitasking Kids, #194 Helping Kids Get Organized and #191 Kids and Chores
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As all caring adults know, children are not only everyone's business; they are everyone's future.
Ed Miller, journalist and children’s advocate; founding partner and director, U.S. Alliance for Childhood
“Where Do the Children Play?”, film available to the public – find on Alliance for Childhood Web site. You can also contact local PBS stations and ask that they show it!
The National Institute for Play (Carmel California)
The International Play Association
Jillian Copeland, founder and director of The Diener School; Educational consultant to special needs community
It’s So Much Work to Be Your Friend: Helping the Child with Learning Disabilities Find Social Success, Richard Lavoie
Mindset: the New Psychology of Success, Carol Dweck
School Success for Kids with Asperger’s Syndrome: A Practical Guide for Parents and Teachers, Stephan Silverman and Rich Weinfeld
Neil Bernstein, Ph.D., clinical psychologist, author, There When He
Needs You: How to Be An Available, Involved, and Emotionally Connected Father to Your Son
National Center for Fathering
Parents’ Magazine
ZERO TO THREE Parent Survey Results: Tuning In To Dad
Paul Penniman, founder and head of Resources for Inner City Children
Fred Ellis, Director of the Office of Safety and Security, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA
Search YOUR school’s Web site for its information on safety and security.
It is a good idea to ask your school to hold a parent meeting to address safety, security, and emergency management issues WITH the families of its students.
Luz Escobar, Healthy Families Montgomery
Call 240-777-GROW for information on programs in the state of Maryland
www.healthyfamiliesamerica.org
www.infomontgomery.org
There are similar organizations in many other states, so search for for them online.
Lynette Fraga, Ph.D., CFLE, Director for Military Projects, Zero to Three
www.Zerotothree.org/military
Over There
Zachary Peskin, Founder
Special People Helping Others, Inc. or founder@SpPHO.org.
Also, you can order bracelets @ $5 each for support of this organization’s selected charitable causes: Meals on Wheels and Doctors Without Borders
Elizabeth V. Lodal, Virginia Commissioner on the Education Commission of the States
Recommendation: Enter “gifted education” on Web and search for the many resources there.
National Association for the Gifted Child – very helpful quarterly magazine.
Johns Hopkins University– Has been a leader in identifying the gifted for many years.
Mentors – gifted kids respond very positively to having/working with mentors in their areas of interest.
