Keeping Kids Safe, Healthy, and Smart is for all adults who interact with kids_whether they be parents, teachers, or other caregivers_and provides specific suggestions for keeping children safe from hidden and open dangers wherever they spend time. Major threats and hidden dangers to children in our country are examined, including threats in school; threats in cyberspace (bullying or harassment and child predators or child pornography), and a wide range of other threats such as self-mutilation, accidents, abuse, drugs, and mental illness.

Perhaps the most challenging and important role that adults play in society is that of raising children. Every parent and teacher hopes to help children develop into healthy, caring, and intelligent adults. Keeping Kids Safe, Healthy, and Smart is designed for all adults who interact with kids-whether they be parents, teachers, or other caregivers-and provides specific suggestions for keeping children safe from hidden and open dangers wherever they spend time. This book is organized around three different themes of major threats and hidden dangers to children in our country: threats in school spaces (e.g., in classrooms, on buses, on playgrounds, and on sports teams); threats in cyberspace (bullying or harassment and child predators or child pornography), threats in other spaces where children work and play (intrapersonal and interpersonal violence including a wide range of threats such as self-mutilation, accidents, abuse, environmental threats, drugs, and mental illness).

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 Keeping Kids Safe in School and School-Related Spaces
Chapter 4 Playground Safety
Chapter 5 Classroom Spaces: Teacher Victimization of Students, Fires, and Bomb Threats
Chapter 6 Getting to and from School: Safety on Buses and While Walking
Chapter 7 Athletics: Injury, Hazing, and Bullying on Sports Teams
Chapter 8 Promoting Safe and Healthy Developing Brains for Learning and Positive Behavior
Chapter 9 Learning Disabilities and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Chapter 10 Keeping Kids Safe in Cyberspace
Chapter 11 Cyber-Bullying: Meanness Goes Online!
Chapter 12 Cyberspace: Online Dangers and Predators
Chapter 13 Keeping Kids Safe in All Spaces
Chapter 14 Intrapersonal Violence: Suicide
Chapter 15 Intrapersonal Violence: Self-Mutilation
Chapter 16 Interpersonal Violence: Choking
Chapter 17 Interpersonal Violence: Bullying
Chapter 18 Accidents: Cars, Bicycles, Fire and Water Safety
Chapter 19 Abuse: Psychological, Sexual, and Physical
Chapter 20 Environmental Threats: Lead Poisoning and Other Environmental and Household Toxins
Chapter 21 Healthy Lifestyle Choices: Reducing Childhood Obesity and Inactivity and Improving Childhood Nutrition
Chapter 22 Alcohol and Other Drugs: Experimentation and Problem Use
Chapter 23 Mental Health: Depression, Anxiety, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Chapter 24 Striking a Healthy Balance between Safety and Overprotection