Talking about the car seat, it is suggested for parents to install this equipment with proper guidelines. Installing car seat properly will help your children to prevent getting neck injury. In some states, you will find that children under six years old should sit on the car seat, while children above six years old should use the seat belt at all times. Just check out the regulation in your state and follow it in order provide safety for your children while on the road.

Moreover, if your children need to use a seat belt, you have to make sure that it is tight enough for them. However, do not tighten the seat belt too much tight since it can make your children difficult to breathe. Just make sure that your children feel comfortable with their seat belt.

Two of the children found the courage to tell, but when confronted, the molester denied the accusations and explained away the child’s “confusion”. Shockingly, in both cases, the molester was believed over the child and even after being so close to getting caught, the abuse continued – with renewed vigilance and heightened confidence.

Although anyone, male or female, can be a sex offender, usually it’s someone with access to kids, like a babysitter or group leader, but often it’s a neighbor, close family friend or family member. Contrary to popular belief, sexual abuse crosses all racial, religious and socio-economic boundaries. And ALL children are at risk. In fact 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 7 boys will be molested.

The “Stranger Dangers” we teach our children don’t apply. Sexual abuse is a crime of manipulation and intimacy. Pedophiles know their victims. They take advantage of opportunities that allow private time with children. And slowly and methodically a pedophile will develop a child’s trust. Sometimes a pedophile will also earn the trust of the child’s parent. And when the opportunity arises, a pedophile doesn’t hesitate. If someone is paying particular attention to your child Watch Out Anytime…

1. Anyone insists on hugging, touching, kissing, tickling, wrestling with a child, particularly if the child doesn’t want this affection
2. Anyone refuses to let a child set his/her own limits
3. Anytime anyone is overly interested in the sexuality of a child or teen
4. Anytime anyone spends a lot of time alone or insists on time alone with a child
5. Anytime anyone spends most of his/her spare time with kids
6. Anytime anyone has little interest in spending time with people his/her own age
7. Anytime anyone regularly offers to babysit for free
8. Anytime anyone regularly buys a child gifts, or give them money for no particular reason
9. Anytime anyone takes a child special places, particularly overnight
10. Anytime anyone walks in on kids/teens in the bathroom

Teach Your Child:

1. The difference between safe and unsafe touches.
2. That sexual abusers can be women or men, boys or girls and it happens to boys and girls
3. That sexual abuse can be touching or non-touching, watching a movie, looking at pictures, or taking pictures of your child.
4. Sexual abuse doesn’t have to hurt.
5. Abusers use both tricks and force and say lots of things to silence children – they might even say I love you.
6. Proper names for all body parts, so they will be able to communicate clearly. And a child’s body belongs only to the child. No one has the right to touch or hurt a child – EVER.
7. Safety Rules apply to all adults and children, not just strangers.
8. It’s okay to say “no” to requests that make them feel uncomfortable.
9. A safety plan they can easily follow.
10. Teach Your Children that sexual abuse is NEVER the child’s fault. And teach your child to report to you if anyone asks them to keep a secret.
11. And make sure your child knows you will believe and protect him or her.

Any time your children are using pencils, crayons, scissors, paint brushes or playing with play dough, they are developing their fine motor skills.

Sometimes, watch what they are doing and make suggestions on how to hold the pencil or crayon correctly or better yet, colour or draw along side of them so they begin to copy you.

Some games you could do at home include:

1. Give your child your kitchen tongs and a bowl filled with cotton balls. Place another bowl beside it and have your child move the cotton balls, using the tongs to move the cotton balls from one bowl to the other.

2. Use play dough. Have your child roll snakes and balls and introduce some tolls such as knives, potato ricer, cookie cutters for her to experiment with.

3. Give her some bubble wrap and get her to squeeze and pinch it.

4. Crumpling or tearing paper – try different types like tissue, newspaper, paper towel, junk mail, coffee filters etc.

5. Try some card games like snap or fish or build card houses.

6. During bath time give your child things that must be squeezed like salad dressing or detergent bottles, turkey basters or sponges.

7. Have your child do some hand-washing at the kitchen sink. Maybe doll clothes or rags and then have her squeeze out the items before hanging them to dry.

8. Look for board games that use the pointer finger and thumb to move the markers around a board. Or try pick-up sticks.

9. Make sure you have interlocking block sets for your child.

10.Make a trip to the dollar store for wind-up toys. Let your child wind them up.

First: You should not be intrusive. Although it is important to learn more about your kids and what they are up to, it is not wise to invade their personal space or ask questions that are too personal.

Second: You have to be careful about asking your child about his day. If he never minds spilling the beans, go ahead and continue to ask. On the other hand, if he always replies that he did not do anything special, you should let it go because he is obviously uncomfortable about discussing what he did, even if he did nothing wrong.

Third: It is necessary to take advantage of any spare time you have. You should use it to do what you like with your kids; however, you should not try to force them to do activities that do not appeal to them.

Fourth: You should let them call the shots for bonding time. For example, you should focus on doing the activities they want to do with them.

Fifth: Instead of strictly being a parent, you should try to be an ally and partner. It is important to be willing to listen to them when taking an interest in their lives.

Sixth: If you want to have a meaningful conversation with your kids, you cannot tune anything out or only take in information you want to hear. It is important to have an open mind.

Seventh: It is wise not to jump to conclusions or be too critical before you hear the entire story. It is wise to not be judgmental of your kids.

Eighth: If you want to continue to gain more bonding time with your children, you should not be overbearing. For example, if they tell you what they want to do for themselves while you are walking together, it is okay to make suggestions for other things they can do but you should not try to pressure them to start doing the things you want them to do.

Ninth: You have to behave yourself. For example, if you wish to attend your kids’ games, you may not berate the officials if you are unhappy with their calls.

Use these suggestions to properly show more interest in your kids!

There are ways to help prepare for preparing a child for the real world. I have always said that parenting comes from the heart. Good parenting comes from keen observational skills. Excellent parenting comes from careful guiding the child in the direction in which she will naturally go. One must hope that this natural direction a good thing. Supposing it is, it will lead to the true happiness of the child. This is when parenting becomes fun. When you see a lifetime of parenting from the heart, keen observational skills, and careful guidance, then you see how your hard work paid off.

This isn’t to say that it will all be fun and games. There is diaper changing, potty training, numerous bath and meal times, discipline, and nap times. All these things are important for the successful raising of a child, but the most important things, those listed above, are the most important. When you see that there is happiness and fulfillment in your child’s life, you think on all the good times in the past (but not the bad!) you think that you have done a good job.

In the meantime, however, you must persevere. The child will push your limits, exhaust you to the very end, and then ask for more. They do not apologize; it is simply the nature of children. They must know the limits of the world and the people surrounding them. Otherwise, the child’s education will be incomplete. You are their only resource until you turn them loose on the world.