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Guiding Children to Prevent VIOLENCE

Three-Level Approach to Prevent Violence among Children Provide Intensive Interventions for a Few Children Intervene Early for Some Children Build a Schoolwide Foundation for All Children Build a Schoolwide Foundation Support positive discipline, academic success, and mental and emotional wellness through a caring school environment, teaching appropriate behaviors and problem solving skills, positive behavioral support and appropriate academic instruction. Intervene Early Create services and supports that address risk factors and build protective factors for students at risk for severe academic or behavioral difficulties. Provide Intensive Interventions Provide coordinated, comprehensive, intensive, sustained, culturally appro-priate, child-and family-focused services and supports. No plan will make a school immune to violence. Never-theless, having a violence prevention and response plan in place reduces the likelihood of violence and helps schools respond quickly and effectively t...

Kids' Site

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Kids Com Subject : Games and Writing Ages : 4-15 Organization : KidsCom (commercial site with advertisements) This site has promise. An easy-to-understand graphical interface leads children from one area to the next. The games are fairly simple but fun for younger children (one even teaches Internet safety). Every week the site holds a writing contest in which children write stories about things like a "a bear who lives in Canada and wears a hat." While advertisements are sprinkled through the sites, they are clearly marked with a cute little bug so that children know it is a commercial. On the negative side, advertisements pop up that take over the entire screen and some questionnaires can ask detailed questions (remind your children of Net Rule #1). Also, the languages options, Spanish, Dutch, and French, were just vaporware – software that does not exist or work ...

Error in English

What is an error in English? The concept of language errors is a fuzzy one. I’ll leave to linguists the technical definitions. Here we’re concerned only with deviations from the standard use of English as judged by sophisticated users such as professional writers, editors, teachers, and literate executives and personnel officers. The aim of this site is to help you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the way you write or speak. But isn’t one person’s mistake another’s standard usage? Often enough, but if your standard usage causes other people to consider you stupid or ignorant, you may want to consider changing it. You have the right to express yourself in any manner you please, but if you wish to communicate effectively, you should use nonstandard English only when you intend to, rather than fall into it because you don’t know any better. Why don’t you cover all important points of grammar? Other sites do this; mine is ded...

I LOVE MY MOM

Mothers Day is the one time out of the year when husbands, sons, daughters, and grandchildren alike get to show dear old mom just how much they appreciate all that she does. Too many times we “forget to unload the dishwasher,” or “don’t remember to let the family dog out.” Though, doesn’t mom (who is right there behind you to help clean up your mistakes) deserve at least one worry-free day? Shouldn’t mom receive something she can use and be grateful for this mothers day? One memory I won’t forget is making crafts with my mother as a kid. We used to do anything from finger painting, to dying eggs, to molding clay, or my personal favorite- making candles. Every time I smell the sweet smell of Ever Evergreen or Annie‘s Spring Rain, I am reminded of the countless hours spent in the kitchen making candles with my mom. Candles are a wonderful gift for anyone of any age! I know that when a candle is lit around me, I am reminded of the good times I spent with mom. I’m sure she feels the same w...