What is grooming? From Wikipedia, "child grooming comprises actions deliberately undertaken with the aim of befriending and establishing an emotional connection with a child, to lower the child's inhibitions in order to sexually abuse the child." Grooming is well-organized and…
Last week we looked at the stats for Sex Predators in the USA. On 9.10.14, the Miami Herald had an article that in the State of Florida as it paid tribute to the missing children (marked as "Missing Children's Day")…
When I put this curriculum together for the South Florida schools, I was deeply concerned about children we work with and the sex predators near schools. I did several in-services with schools and one school had a sex predator…
Teaching Children Productive Thinking Sometimes we think our thoughts are just our thoughts with no room for change. You see as teachers and parents, we sometimes talk too much and we do not listen to what the child is trying to…
How Parents Can Help Their Child: The child's fears depend on his or her level of anxiety, past experience, and imagination. Sometimes, you can give the child more time to try to avoid those events and situations that trigger them.…
“Common Fears of Toddlers and Preschool Children:” Fear of separation: This fear was mentioned several times. Toddlers' anxiety about separation is an indication of growth. After the age of 2, the child worries about and is puzzled over a parent's…
Helping Kids Overcome Their Halloween Fears and Phobias I know I love the Halloween days when I was a child. I dressed up like Hopalong Cassidy with my friend and headed to collect candies by cutting through the cemetery near…
I was interested to add dreams to anxieties and fears in my training. I researched to understand, learn and be informed about dreams. I know when I was a child, I would have dreams like ghosts where in my life…
Looking at Phobias Robbin Koenig said from the last part: "anxiety is something that I have often seen in my early childhood classroom. Separation anxiety is the first one that I observe at the beginning of the school year. I…
Recognizing Signs of Anxiety: Even though childhood fears change with age, they will still include the fear of strangers, heights, darkness, animals, blood, insects and being left alone. Usually, an unpleasant experience can lead to a fear such as a cat…