Presents tips for being safe around the house, including picking up toys when finished playing, only putting cords into sockets, and what do do when a smoke detector goes off.

Provides safety tips for school, including how to hold scissors when walking, how to use playground equipment, and the appropriate behavior for the bus.

Simple text and illustrations explain how to be safe in various weather conditions.

Digital technology has changed the parenting territory dramatically in recent years. Suddenly we've been tasked with preparing kids to be safe, happy and successful, not just in the real world, but in the online world as well. Martine Oglethorpe is part of a new breed of parenting educator who nimbly stays abreast of technology changes while keeping one foot firmly grounded in the timeless ways that make families strong.Martine skilfully combines her professional expertise with the lived experience gained by guiding her own children down the pathway to being skilled, savvy digital citizens. In these pages lies the blueprint for parenting kids in the digital age. It shares how to be engaged in the digital lives of our children without being overbearing or burdensome; to know when to tread lightly as a parent and when care and caution need to be taken.

This book presents a range of innovative analytical frameworks that can be used to approach the complexities of children’s understandings and experiences of well-being in a locally oriented, context-sensitive and multi-nationally comparative way. It addresses the challenges of undertaking research on children’s understandings of well-being from a multi-national qualitative perspective. Chapters in the book present results that show how children from various places all over the world conceptualize and experience well-being as well as how this is linked local, regional and national social, political and cultural contexts.

From the annals of the 'Safe at Home' series/column, this mini-book provides the reader with safety tips when confronted with winter, snow, and dangerous weather conditions. Written in a conversational and lightly humorous tone, these timely tips will remind the reader how to stay safe when in the cold.

"Text first published in 1990 by Children's Press, Inc."