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| Norma Ross |
To begin our New Year, let me wish you all a year of good health, prosperity and growth for the Federation. As it is early in the New Year, it may be a good time to talk about a difficult subject: Early Intervention.
As I think about all the violence in our world, I feel that we can only take steps in our own family to model the behaviors that we want our children to see and display as they move forth in this world. Teachers and parents and community leaders need to work together to model the behaviors that will make our children great leaders and proud citizens. And with that comes the need to look at the warning signs and be prepared to intervene early when you see a child behave inappropriately.
Problems do not go away with age and this means for all of us who lead, we must acknowledge early issues of aggression in the home or school and be committed to change and finding early intervention systems. Families need to be helped to know what problems are merely simple issues that can be handled alone, and issues that need the intervention of mental health professionals.
Early intervention can often be the short term answer to handling issues when our children are small and preventing them from becoming big issues when our children are grown. Often parents with the best intentions do not want to admit there is a problem or do not know who to ask. And thus they cannot intervene.
If we can make one step forward for our own family in 2007 and understand how early intervention can be the key to building a happy and safe home environment for our children, we can empower them to build their future for themselves.
You can contact Norma Ross at
nrshrink@aol.com or 1 (305) 937 6215
Norma will be available
in St. Kitts March 2007
To download a free copy of Norma's Parenting book
You Can Say NO and Your Child Will Still Love You
Please go to www.youcansayno.com
