Resources for ParentsPro Consumer Safety provides you with parental resources that gives you information and guidance to help reduce your child's exposure to injury to keep your family healthy throughout each stage of child development.
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The Children's Book List for Parents provides parents with age-appropriate books on life experiences. This resource provides parents with books for children and teens so parents can share with their child during challenging life changing experiences. This will ultimately help children and teens to better cope with these experiences in a healthier way that promotes healthier development and emotional growth.
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These guidelines help parents understand the age-appropriate, sexual behaviors in children and teens. It provides a list and description of common behaviors by age along, a guide to recognize the more uncommon signs of inappropriate behaviors and provides resources for professional guidance.
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As a parent myself, and as a Certified Health Education Specialist and neuroepidemiologist I practice with my child what we have learned in neuroscience about the importance of "play". Play has significant benefits to brain development and learning throughout the childhood and teen years. In the elementary years this gives the opportunity for the child to explore activities and gain interests. As the parent encourages these interests in their child, during the teen years it gives an opportunity to provide them with further training and classes in these activities, which has shown to reduce risky behavior during adolescence.
JDeCarli, ProConsumerSafety
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The Parent's Pyramid is a guide for parents to help improve their child's physical and emotional development. The elementary school and teen years are known as the use-it-or loose-it phase of brain development. Children and teens are agents of their own learning. Just allow them to explore their interests, encourage them, validate (support) them, allow these opportunities for their interests and your child and teen will succeed. These are lessons from recent neuroscience research. Whereas neurons that fire together, wire together (Norman Doidge). In other words your child must “use-it” (their brain) by exploring and practicing the skills and activities they enjoy most, or they will “loose-it”.
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The loss of a loved one is a devastating experience for anyone, but can be even more difficult for children and teens. A Letter Release is a simple activity that you can do with your child or teen to help them better cope and get through the loss of a loved one. This can include a relative, friend or even a pet that has recently died.
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The brains of children and teens will adapt to the environment you allow them to be exposed to and the behaviors that you model to them. As a parent what do you model to your child or teen? Follow these guidelines, set rules and model positive behavior by closing down devices and spending time providing activities your child or teen has chosen and developed a passion for.
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