Category: Children

School or Day Care Emergency Plans

Today we are going to look at one thing and one thing only. Pull out your emergency preparedness checklist, go to the front page, or page One. In the left-hand column about two-thirds of the...

Fathers Day 2020

Fathers Day 2020

Happy Father’s Day. This is one of those interesting days when we fathers are being honored and recognized. This is kind of unique because if you look at mainstream media and modern television most fathers...

Stress, Children and Disasters

The last official Year of the Child was 1979. UNESCO proclaimed 1979 as the International Year of the Child.  The proclamation was signed on January 1, 1979, by United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim.  A follow-up...

Children and Disasters NPM Week: 3

National Preparedness Month Week 3: September 15-21 Teach Youth to Prepare for Disaster  I see it as, teach our children to prepare for disasters. During the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake my oldest daughter was with...

Fathers Day 20190616

I am a Father and I am also a Dad. Being a Dad is much more rewarding than being a Father. Fatherhood simply means donating a genetic sample to produce an offspring. Some Fathers are...

HAPPY FATHERS DAY

What does it mean to be a father? I am sure for different people it will conjure up different answers, philosophical, moral, and pragmatic. “I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as...