“Extravagant worry”
F
Facebook
Failure: allowing your children to experience ; “expandable” (or “growth”) versus “fixed” mindset and; leading to success; mediocrity labeled as; overscheduling children to avoid; taboo topic of; trying again after . See also Success
Family Groove (online magazine)
FDA (Food and Drug Administration)
Fear of litigation: affecting normal childhood activities; defensive thinking outcome of; Just in Case mentality and; school policies related to; warning labels related to
Fears: adults living with child-learned ; as barrier to playtime; cultural differences over child abduction ; distrust as driving; expert parenting advice contributing to; images in the brain and ; low child abduction statistics vs. exaggerated; media spread of ; milk carton phenomenon increasing; not being paralyzed by; safety products/services due to; sources of; as winning over commonsense; “worrying” versus. See also Parents; Safety issues
The Feminine Mystique (Friedan)
Finkelhor, D.
Finnegan, S.
“Fixed” mindset
Follow the leader game
Fonda, J.
Forman, J.
Francisco
Franklin, B.
Free-Range Kids Web site
Freud, S.
Friedan, B.
Frost, R.
Future Files (Watson)
G
Gaelle
Gardner, A.
Gardner, D.
Gary
Genetic influences
Germ precautions
Gilliland, S.
Glickman, E.
“gLovies”
Go Away, Big Green Monster! (Emberly)
Going Free Range: allowing normal childhood activities; allowing your children to fail; on expanding your cultural horizons; freeing yourself from advice overload; ignoring the blamers; learning to enjoy Halloween; learning to let go of control; organizing “play watch group,” ; quit obsessing about your parenting; realistic assessment of safety/educational products; teaching your children safety techniques ; teaching your children to work; turning off the TV; weaning yourself off excess worry
“Good toy” principle
Greenberg, H. R.
Grolnick, W.
Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration (Sawyer)
“Growth” (or “expandable”) mindset
Gymboree
H
Haberman, S.
Halloween: costume choices for; fears related to; holding trick-or-treat parties on; marketing response to; the real story on poisoned candy and ; recent trends related to; taking steps to enjoy; Thames Valley Police realistic tips on. See also Safety issues; Trick-or-treating
Halloween-Safety.com
Hank
The Happiest Toddler on the Block (Karp)
Harris, J. R.
Hart, A.
Hay fever
HBO
Heimlich maneuver
Helicopter parenting
Hepburn, A.
Hicks, M.
Hirsh-Pasek, K.
Hirtenstein, J.
Hohlbaum, C.
Howard, P.
How to Live Dangerously (Cairns)
Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood (Mintz)
Hughes, H.
“Hygiene hypothesis”
I
Illinois State University’s School of Kinesiology and Recreation
“I’m a better parent” game
“The Incident at Friendly’s” story
Independence: allowing children to practice ; baking Independence Cake for; celebrating ; feeling trusted outcome of; finding balance between fears and ; as one of the joys of childhood
Infectious Diseases Society of America
Internet predators
The Internet Safety Technical Task Force
It’s Potty Times
I Want My Potty (Ross)
J
James S. McDonnell Foundation
Jess
Jo, Dr.
Jolie, A.
Jones, B. D.
Jordan, M.
Just in Case mentality
K
Kidnappings. See Child abductions
Kindermusik
King, L.
Kolba, N.
Kukla, R.
L
Lancy, D.
Landers, A.
Last Child in the Woods (Louv)
Law and Order (TV show)
Lead paint/toys
Learning: compromise and negotiation ; creative thinking. See also Teaching
Levinger, D.
Licking batter
Lincoln, A.
Lindbergh baby kidnapping
Lindsey, M.
Linn, S.
Litigation. See Fear of litigation
Little League: litigation against; metal versus wooden bat study by
Little Miss Sunshine (film)
Lohan, L.
Lou and Lou Safety Patrol (mini-videos)
Louv, R.
Lunch spoilage
M
MacDougall, Mrs.
Mad Men (TV show)
Madonna
Maidenberg, M.
Make-believe play: allowing your kids fun and safe; benefits of; “good toy” principle and; health benefits of; organizing “play watch group” for; reasons for diminishing time spent
Manhattan Academy of Technology
Marano, H. E.
March of Dimes
Massand, N.
McCann, M.
McDermott, N.
McGovern, K.
Mean Girls (film)
Media: changing code of conduct of; diminishing time spent playing due to ; fear spread through; growth of parenting advice; missing kids news coverage by ; turning off the cable
Medical Center (TV show)
Melissa
Melville, H.
The Mentalist (TV show)
Metal bats
Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch
Milk carton phenomenon
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Dweck)
Mintz, S.
Missing kids. See Child abductions
MommaSaid.net.
MOPS (Mothers of PreSchoolers)
Morry
Mozart, W.
Mt. Sinai Hospital
MTV
Mullaney, M.
MySpace
The Myth of the First Three Years (Bruer)
N
National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
A Nation of Wimps (Marano)
Nationwide Hospital (Columbus): free x-rays of Halloween candy by ; Halloween safety tips by
Nature Deficit Syndrome
NEST * m (social studies class). See also Schools
Nevin, R.
New TV shows
New York Independent
New York Times
New York University
Nim’s Island (film)
Normal childhood activities: allowing your child some; contemporary perceptions about; defensive thinking about; different cultural attitudes toward unsupervised ; fear of litigation affecting ; fears related to trick-or-treating ; parental permission to enjoy; school fear of litigation affecting
The Nurture Assumption (Harris)
O
Obama, B.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
One Step Ahead Web site
Ordinary People (film)
Organized activities: diminished time spent playing due to; overscheduling children for
The Over-Scheduled Child (Rosenfled and Wise)
Overscheduling children
P
Parent-child relationships: cell phone impact on; teaching good judgment component of; “worrying” component of
Parente, C.-P.
Parenthood i
n America (ed. Balter)
Parenting: childrearing influences other than; current glorification and spotlight on; defining of “good,” ; examining how your child is impacted by; expert advice on; Freud’s theories on ; helicopter; quit obsessing about your; worry over negative impact of your
Parenting expert advice: confused reliance on; increase of media coverage on
Parents: definition of “good,” ; desensitizing from “worrying,” ; “extravagant worry” of; illusion of control by; organizing “play watch group” with other; organizing “walking school bus” with other ; preprogrammed to help their children; resisting comparing yourself to other; worrying by. See also Fears
Peck, G.
Pediatrics (journal)
PedNet Coalition
Perfect parenting: childrearing influences other than; myth of
Planned Parenthood
Plastic bags
Playboy Channel
Playground perils
Playhouse Disney Web site
Playing in the woods
Play/playing: allowing your kids fun and safe; benefits of make-believe ; as essential to childhood ; “good toy” principle and; health benefits of; patty-cake; reasons for diminishing time spent. See also Childhood activities
“Play watch group”
Potty training
The Potty Training Answer Book
Powers, T. N.
Pregnancy expert advice
Pressured Parents, Stressed-Out Kids (Grolnick and Seal)
“The problem that has no name”: children and the new; setting children free from; woman and
Professional babyproofing
Prosi, T.
Purcell, S.
Q
Quackwatch
R
Raw dough
Reagan, R.
Real World: allowing your kids to have safe fun; Angelina Hart on cultural differences; Baby Einstein video scam; baby magazine advice creating fear; disconnecting the cable; finding balance between safety and freedom; getting a grip on worries; keeping children safe; lessons from Little Miss Sunshine ; My Son Was Picked up by the Cops; parents playing baby games; realistic assessment of risk; Thames Valley Police realistic Halloween tips; What’s Wrong with Our Society and Me?
Regal Lager
Resnick, S.
Responsibility: historic expectations for taking; lack of contemporary opportunities for
Risks: assessing child abduction ; assessing when it is worth the; assumption of shared; Just in Case mentality of; realistic assessment of
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rosenfeld, A.
Rosenfled, A.
Royal Society for the Prevention Accidents (UK)
S
Safe Kids Worldwide
Safety issues: being eaten by animals; bisphenol A (PBA) poisoning bottle feeding versus breastfeeding ; cell phones and brain cancer association; choking ; cough and cold medicinitis ; death by stroller; drowning; eating raw dough ; eating snow; germs, antigerms, and shopping cart liners; Internet predators; lead paint and lead toys; licking the batter off beaters while they are still plugged; metal versus wooden bats; plastic bags; playground perils; playing in the woods; school shootings ; SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome); spoilage of children ; spoilage of lunch; sunscreen, Vitamin D, skin cancer ; teen sex; vampire bats; walking to school; zoo animals. See also Children’s safety; Fears; Halloween
Safety products/services: baby knee pads and; professional babyproofing, ; proliferation of; realistically assessing; for stroller safety ; Thudguard helmet. See also Children’s safety
Salmonella
San Francisco Zoo
Sawyer, K.
Schaffner, W.
Schlesinger, L.
School policies: fear of litigation affecting ; on school bus stops
Schools: standardized tests given in; teaching independence curriculum at ; walking to. See also NEST * m (social studies class)
School shootings
Science (magazine)
The Science of Fear (Gardner)
Sesame Street: Old School, Vol. 1 (DVD)
Sex crimes: declining rates of; Internet predators and. See also Child abductions
Sex education
Shapiro, R. J.
Shopping cart liners
Siblings: influence of; ties between ; Unabomber and his brother
SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome)
Siegfried and Roy
Singer, J.
Sisson, D.
Sisson, W.
Skin cancer
Smart, E.
Smith, T.
Solomon, P.
Spiesel, S.
Spiked Web site
Spock, Dr.
Spoilage: of children; of lunch
Spoon, L.
Standardized tests
Standards Australia
Stearns, P.
St. Louis Children’s Hospital
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (Frost)
Strachan, D.
Strangers: inadvertently making children fear all; role play how to deal with; teaching children practical techniques for; teaching children when to talk to . See also Child abductions
Stroller safety
Success: failures that leads to; make-belief play developing skills for ; overscheduling to attempt creating. See also Failure
Sunden, R.
Sunscreen
Supervising children: different cultural attitudes toward; feeling belittled and distrusted outcomes of overly ; organizing “play watch group” for
Sutherland, A.
Swartz, J.
Swimming pools
T
Teaching: children good judgment ; children to work; independence ; techniques to avoid child abductions . See also Learning
Teen sex
Television: changing code of conduct of ; diminishing time spent playing due to; fear spread through ; missing kids news coverage on ; turning off the
Temple University Infant Language Laboratory
Teresa
Thames Valley Police Halloween tips
This Old House (TV show)
Thomas, I.
Thompson, R.
Thudguard (helmet)
Toilet training advice
Tooth fairy
Total Control (TC)
Toys“R”Us
Trick-or-treating: fear reactions to; real poisoned candy statistics on ; recent trends related to ; taking steps to enjoy; Thames Valley Police realistic tips on. See also Halloween
Trick-or-treat parties
Trust: accidentally teaching children not to; overly supervised children and
Twain, M.
Twin studies
U
Unabomber
United States: car culture of; comparing childrearing attitudes of other countries to; Danish mother’s child endangerment arrest in the
University of Chicago
University of Delaware
University of Illinois
University of New Hampshire
USA today
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
V
Vaccinations
Vampire bats
Vanderbilt University Department of Preventive Medicine
Violent crimes: declining rates of ; factors related to declining rates of; school shootings
Virtual Linguist
Vitamin D deficiency
W
Wacky Warning Label Contest
“Walking school bus”
Walking to school
Wal-Mart
Walsh, A.
Walsh, J.
Warning labels
Watson, R.
Weingarten, R. K.
Weiss, N.
What to Eat When You’re Expecting
(Murkoff, Murkoff, and Hathaway)
What to Expect When You’re Expecting (Murkoff and Mazel)
What to Expect When You Use the Potty (Murkoff and Rader)
Willhite, C.
Wimp.com
W magazine
Work opportunities: allowing your children ; baby-sitting; historic figures and their; lack of contemporary
“Worrying”: desensitizing ourselves from ; fear versus appropriate ; getting a grip on
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook (Piven)
WOW! Is Me
Wright, S.
WWIDIIJSWTICRMKRHAN
Y
Yale Medical School
Z
Zoo animal safety
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I believe in teaching children to be safe and then giving them the freedom we had as kids. If you think times are more dangerous today, please take a look at these statistics:• 36% decline in homicides of children under age 14, 1976-2005 (Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice)
• 60% decline in homicides of children ages 14-17, 1976-2005 (Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice)
• 79% decline in juvenile sex victimization trends, 1993-2003 (Source: National Crime Victimization Survey)
• Each year, about 2,000 children are killed as passengers in cars. About 50 are kidnapped and killed by strangers. That means children are 40 times more likely to die in a car trip to the mall than during a walk home from school.
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