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Summer Safety Tips: Protecting Your Kids from Sun and Heat
Now that it's summer, kids have more time to spend outside playing, whether it's swimming with friends, a neighborhood water balloon fight, or a family bike ride. Take steps to beat the heat and keep your child from getting dehydrated or sunburned before you take them outside.
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Flu Season Preparedness: How to Keep Your Family Healthy
There are many great things about fall: cooler weather after a hot summer, wearing sweaters, Halloween, changing leaves, and everything that tastes like pumpkin. That being said, some people don't like fall because it means flu season is coming.
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Creating a Positive and Engaging Environment in Before and After School Care
Providing a safe, positive, and engaging environment is not only good for a child's well-being but also needed for their development. Creating this kind of environment in an after school program allows children to explore their interests, express themselves, and build enduring relationships with supportive peers and caring adults.
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Water Safety Watchwords for Childcare Givers: The importance of water safety for kids
According to the Childrens Safety Network (CSN), there are nearly 3,700 unintentional drowning-related deaths recorded annually in the U.S. Over 24% of those (more than 900) involve children and adolescents between ages 0 to 19. These are scary numbers, but they’re even scarier for caregivers of younger children.
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