While some parents would rather avoid taking any sort of test that may put them in an unfavorable light or exploit them in a way that would judge their 0parenting skills0, the recent hair alcohol test, developed by a team of English and German scientists, is a test that some parents are thrilled to comply with.
The hair alcohol test is exactly how it sounds: a test that proves whether or not you have abused alcohol by using your scalp hair as a sample. Unlike urine alcohol testing, which can only prove whether or not you have abused alcohol within a very small time frame of a week, with significant dilution hindrances affecting the test results, a hair alcohol test can prove notably longer time frame of abuse.
So why are parents eager to comply with this type of test? The hair alcohol test can disprove that someone has a history of alcohol abuse. Say a spouse gave false accusations about the other parent or legal guardian of a child that they were abusing drugs and alcohol and therefore was 0not fit0 to have custody of the child. A hair alcohol test taken by that person will show up to […]
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We seldom want to look at the statistics about suicide in children and young people, but they are important to consider. As parents and educators we tend to ignore this subject, pretending it doesn’t happen in “good” families. The belief is that suicide happens only
in troubled families to troubled children.
At the ChildSpirit Conference I attended in November, Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of numerous books including The Magical Child, gave us a startling statistic. “Suicide is the third leading cause of death among children and young people”. This number includes only the young people who succeed, not those who attempt and live.
He said this is unprecedented in the history of humankind. Never before have we witnessed children ending their own life in such numbers.*Additional figures from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: “Suicide is the third leading cause of death for 15-to-24-year-olds, and the sixth leading cause of death for 5-to-14-year-olds.”
These are shocking statistics! They cry out for us to wake and to pay attention. Most of us never think of children ages 5 - 14 committing suicide.
Child and youth suicide is important because it is the tip of the iceberg. What lies beneath the water’s surface […]
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Jessica is generally a happy kid. But she didn’t look very sunny when she got home from school. So, her mom asked, “How was your day at school sweetheart?”
Jessica’s answer was slow, with some reluctance: “Well, mom, I don’t know0. not so great0.
She seemed to need a little encouragement to continue. “So0.?”
“Susie and I were standing at my locker when Josh walked up and said, ‘Hey Susie. Why are you hanging out with a loser like Jessica? She’s just gonna die on ya from cystic fibrosis!’ ”
Stunned, this mother grabbed the edge of the counter just to contain herself. Kids these days can be so cruel! Fighting to contain her anger, she asked, “”o, what did you do?”
“Well, I didn’t do anything but Susie kicked him in the shins!”
There are bullies in abundance. There isn’t a kid alive who hasn’t experienced a brush with a bully on the playgrounds of life. But, sometimes bullying passes the point of no return. Hearing many variations on this same story over and over again from families of children with cystic fibrosis (CF), I realize such moments are inevitable. Every parent of a child with a serious medical issue or disability lives with […]
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