Child Health Month Handouts

Table of Contents

A. Child Activity Sheets

1. About Me . . . (Promoting Self-Esteem)
2. What If . . . ? (Teaching Personal Safety) (Adult/Child Activity)
3. Who to Talk To? (Teaching Personal Safety)
4. Child Safety
5. Yucky Things for Your Body
6. Find a Risk
7. Buckled Up

B. Parenting

1. Hug Your Child with Your Words
2. Never Shake a Baby ­ Help for Parents with Crying Babies
3. Parenting Tips for Fathers
4. For Parents of Teens (phrases to use)
5. Parents ­ Are We Doing the Job Well?
6. For an Emotionally Sound Family
7. Communicating with Your School­Age Child
8. Quality in Child Care: What to Look For
9. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) (Reducing the Risks)

C. Discipline

1. Effective Discipline
2. Timeout
3. Stop Before You Spank
4. 10 Alternatives to Lashing Out at Your Child
5. Holding the Line on Tantrums

D. Safety/Injury Prevention

1. Teaching Kids about Firearm Safety
2. 10 Tips for Gun Safety
3. Home Alone
4. Safety Sense in the Summer
5. Invest in Your Life and Stay on Top! (water safety)
6. How to Fit Your (bike) Helmet
7. Family Safety Check
8. Hazardous Handbag!
9. Seat Belts Now Required for NH Teens!
10. Make It a Safe Halloween
11. Can Bouncing a Baby Cause Shaken Baby Syndrome?
12. Never Shake a Baby
13. Baby Walkers are Dangerous

E. Violence Prevention

1. TV Violence ­ What Parents Can Do
2. What Parents Can Do About TV (Limiting TV Viewing)
3. The Internet (a Parent­Child Contract for Safe Use)
4. Fact Sheet on Violence/Violence Prevention
5. Media Violence
6. Silence the (Gun) Violence
7. Pull the Plug on Violence
8. How to Stop Child Abuse in a Public Place
9. Protecting Our Children (Violence Prevention)

F. Conflict Resolution/Prevention

1. Hints for Cooling a Conflict
2. Is Your Child Being Bullied?
3. What Parents Can Do if Your Child is a Bully
4. Keep the Power (avoiding conflicts)
5. Keeping Your Cool in the Heat of the Moment

G. Positive Emotional Health

1. Self Esteem ­ 10 Ways to Help Children Like Themselves
2. Is Your Child Depressed?
3. Preventing Teen Suicide

H. Love/Relationships

1. Love Is . .. Love Isn't . . .
2. Dating ­ Preventing Date Abuse

I. Alcohol/Tobacco/Other Drugs

1. Youth Tobacco Educational Resource List
2. The Truth about Cigars
3. Kids ­ What You Should Know about Tobacco & Sports
4. How Parents Can Keep their Kids from Using Tobacco
5. Second Hand Smoke
6. Kids Take Action (Ideas for substance-free choices)
7. Say "No, I'd Rather . . . " (Alternatives to using drugs/alcohol)
8. Alcohol and Babies are a Dangerous Mix
9. Why Pregnancy and Alcohol Don't Mix
10. Alcohol Advertising ­ Fiction vs. Fact
11. Is My Child Using Alcohol or Other Drugs?
12. 10 Steps to Help Your Child Say No (To using drugs/alcohol)
13. About Alcohol: Ten Tips for Teens
14. If You are Worried about Your Parents Drinking
15. Beedies: Exotic Flavored Cigarettes
16. Inhalant Abuse: Fact Sheet for Adults
17. Inhalants: Fact Sheet for Youth

J. Nutrition

1. Healthy Snacks for Kids
2. Cooking Outdoors and Preventing Food Poisoning

K. Other

1. The Abenaki Compact
2. Vacation and Summer Planning Tips
3. Insects and Other Bugaboos
4. Teaching Kids to "Read" the Media

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