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.
Brad E. Sachs, Ph.D., family psychologist; author, Emptying the Nest: Launching Your Young Adult Toward Success and Self-Reliance
MacArthur Foundation – series of books about young adulthood
Dr. Jeffrey Arnett, psychologist, has also done work on “emerging adulthood”
Nitin Gogtay, M.D., Psychiatrist, National Institute of Mental Health, Child Psychiatry
National Institute of Mental HealthChild psychiatry branch, Childhood Onset Psychosis
National Alliance for Mental Illness – resources, advocacy
North American Society for Childhood Onset Schizophrenia – Can research NIH studies and findings
Dr. Nitin Gogtay – 301-496-7162
Elon Kohlberg, Ph.D., Royal Little Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Founder, Digi-Block, Inc.
Digi-Block
Developing Early Math Skills
Getting Ready for School Begins at Birth
Everyday Ways to Support Your Baby or Toddler’s Early Learning
Erika Huck, School Resource Counselor, Thomas W. Pyle Middle School (Bethesda, MD)
David Dutwin, Vice President, Social Science Research Solutions (SSRS); research scholar, Institute for Jewish and Community Research; adjunct professor, West Chester University
commonsensemedia.org– This is a wonderfully helpful site – reviews video games, movies, TV shows; provide critiques so families can check out media appropriateness.
Making Good Decisions About Screen Time
Rachel Weintraub, Director of Product Safety and Senior Counsel, Consumer Federation of America
Consumer Products Safety Commission – Check for recalls. REGISTER your infant-durable products.
Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act
Consumer Incident Data Base – Consumers will be able to report evaluations and experiences electronically with regard to specific products
Consumer Federation of America
For advocacy regarding infant durable products see:
Consumer’s Union
Jessica Cunningham, Knowledge Is Power Program, Chief Academic Officer, KIPP DC
National Center on Time and Learning
Stephanie Handel, therapist at Wendt Center for Loss and Healing, specializing in grief and trauma
See show 465 for part 1.
Volunteers are much needed for all these camps.
Wendt Center for Loss and Healing
TAPS program – “Good Grief Camp” -Children’s camp for children whose family members have died in the military.
Association for Accreditation of Camps – Has a limited number of grief camps listed but is a good camp resource.
Discussing Death With a Toddler
Books for Babies and Toddlers That Cover Challenging Life Experiences
Books
Jeremy Goes to Camp Good Grief
Stephanie Handel, therapist at Wendt Center for Loss and Healing, specializing in grief and trauma
Volunteers are much needed for all these camps.
Wendt Center for Loss and Healing
TAPS program – “Good Grief Camp” -Children’s camp for children whose family members have died in the military.
Association for Accreditation of Camps – Has a limited number of grief camps listed but is a good camp resource.
Discussing Death With a Toddler
Books for Babies and Toddlers That Cover Challenging Life Experiences
Books
Jeremy Goes to Camp Good Grief
Mona Charen, syndicated columnist and political analyst; parent of diabetic child
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Book
Understanding Insulin-Dependent Diabetes