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Should kids be having sex at ages 11-17 Parents, you need to read this list of responses. It will be a real eye opener.

Children Home Alone and Babysitter Age Guidelines Most States do not have regulations or laws about when a child is considered old enough to care for him/herself or to care for other children. Currently Illinois and Maryland have laws addressing this topic. States may have guidelines or recommendations. These guidelines are most often distributed through child protective services and are administered at the county level.

A parent's guide to online safety: Ages and stages Whether your kids are Internet beginners or are already Web savvy, you can help to guide their use of the Internet as they grow through different ages and stages in their lives. Browse the sections to find out how kids at different ages might use the Internet. Each section also offers a link to online safety tips by age, so you can learn more about what you can do to help improve your children's safety online.

Being 13 What's on their minds? TIME takes an inside look at an age of mystery and challenge By NANCY GIBBS. Ask 13-year-olds what they want for their birthday, and the answers range from a puppy to a laptop to getting their belly button pierced to "my girlfriend's virginity." New ballet slippers. My own room. Cash. Thirteen-year-olds have more power than discipline, more weapons than shields. They demand more respect from their parents and show them less. The Motion Picture Association of America understood the nature of the age when it invented the PG rating--parental guidance suggested--as though it knew that from here on, parents can guide, they can suggest, but kids are making more decisions, taking fewer orders. They have absorbed the family's values because the years of Total Parental Control are coming to an end.

Ages 13 -16 only - Age groups pen pal group - Pen pals for kids & teens

Study: More kids exposed to online porn - Kids & Parenting - MSNBC.com Forty-two percent of Internet users aged 10 to 17 surveyed said they had seen online pornography in the past year. Of those, 66 percent said they did not want to view the images and had not sought them out, University of New Hampshire researchers found.

Cyber Divide Widens: Kids Outsmarting Their Parents - Child protection The gap is widening between what kids do online and what their parents think they do. A new study shows that children are online twice as much as their parents think they are and nearly one-quarter are getting away with forbidden online activities, according to security company Symantec, which commissioned Harris Interactive to do the poll. Parents also may be disconcerted to learn that the survey showed that 23% of children have had an encounter with a stranger on the Internet and 7% reported having met someone in the real world from the Internet. http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201400137

Leadership To Keep Children Alcohol Free - Research This section contains links to research findings, published by the Leadership and other organizations, as well as research currently being conducted by Leadership funders. It also has links to practical research tools, such as online databases and funding resources.

Gender, Identity, and Language Use in Teenage Blogs This study examines issues of online identity and language use among male and female teenagers who created and maintained weblogs, personal journals made publicly accessible on the World Wide Web. Online identity and language use were examined in terms of the disclosure of personal information, sexual identity, emotive features, and semantic themes. Male and female teenagers presented themselves similarly in their blogs, often revealing personal information such as their real names, ages, and locations. Males more so than females used emoticons, employed an active and resolute style of language, and were more likely to present themselves as gay. The results suggest that teenagers stay closer to reality in their online expressions of self than has previously been suggested, and that these explorations involve issues, such as learning about their sexuality, that commonly occur during the adolescent years.

School-Age Child Care: Keeping Children Safe and Helping Them [PDF] The majority of school-age children have parents who work. These children need safe places to go during their out-of-school hours. Research has repeatedly demonstrated that good activities for school-age children after school can help children’s development, safety, and school performance as well as reduce risk-taking behaviors such as the use of drugs, alcohol, and tobacco. Yet, far too many children are left to care for themselves, which places them at greater risk of a range of problems. Low- income children, who have the greatest need for after-school programs, are less likely to have access to constructive activities during their out-of-school time 

American Red Cross- For Children Disaster Services Publications: Materials for Children. Most are simple descriptions of materials you can get from the RC for your children. You can download many PDF Items here: For Teachers and Schools   |   For Children See also: FEMA For Kids: Bibliography: Books on Disaster For Kids

Child and Teen Checkups Vision Screening Tips For Children Detection of eye abnormalities is extremely important in infants and children (under age 6) as irreversible vision loss (amblyopia) can be prevented before the visual pathways are fully developed.   Myopia (nearsightedness) may not be identified until age 11 and is important to screen for in older children.

Age is not a perfect predictor of maturity. [PDF] From kindergarten through high school, youth pass through four developmental stages. Generally, child development specialists have divided up the ages and stages of development into these categories: 5-8 year olds--Early Childhood 9-12 year olds--Middle Childhood 13-15 year olds--Early Adolescence 16-18 year olds--Middle Adolescence This publication will focus on Early Childhood Programming for 4-H Youth.

Adapting the Food Guide Pyramid for Children The purpose of this study was to define the target audience for a food guide that would be adapted for children by recommending subgroups within the 2- to 18-year age range and ranking the subgroups in order of greatest need based on dietary requirements and user demand for nutrition education materials.

Eyewitness Book Series (Ages 8-adult)
In this section you will find a complete collection of the renown Eyewitness books, famous for their informative text and amazing graphics and photography.

When Nothing Makes Sense [PDF] This bibliography is intended to provide resources to help librarians and parents deal with questions, concerns and issues children and young adults have about the recent terrorist attacks perpetrated against the United States. If there are any libraries in the SALS/MVLA service area that hold the book, there is a control number at the end of the citation, which can be looked up on your public library online catalogs.

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