by HomeOfEighT8 | Oct 28, 2011 | Advice, Parenting
Try riding the bus to high school while lugging a bag of heavy textbooks, plus a 3-month-old infant, complete with a day’s worth of baby gear. It will make you strong. While my peers were joking around and having fun on the morning commute, I was–at age 17–suffering...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Oct 28, 2011 | Health, Parenting, Resources
Every year millions of kids deliberately cut their own skin, desperately looking for relief from overwhelming stress, anxiety and insecurity. Learn what’s behind the self-injury problem and how parents can stop the pain. Caia Pattynama hesitated the first time...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Jan 27, 2011 | Health, Resources
A disturbing fact: Suicide is one of the leading causes of death among young people in Canada. Another fact:Â Although much information exists on suicide prevention and intervention, there is little research and few resources which examine the impact of a suicide...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Jan 7, 2011 | Parenting, Resources
To reduce crime, we must support families and provide opportunities for children The things that make communities safer from crime lie beyond the criminal justice system: they lie beyond the jurisdiction of law enforcement, courts, corrections. The criminal justice...
by HomeOfEighT8 | Jan 7, 2011 | Advice, Health, Parenting, Resources
PURPLE Program and Its Research The Period of PURPLE Crying® provides educational information about the properties of normal infant crying that are uniformly frustrating to caregivers, and appropriate action steps that caregivers need to know. Inconsolable infant...
