Diane Levin, author of Remote Control Children

Children and Dealing with War

Diane Levin, author of Remote Control Children? Combatting the Hazards of

Media Culture, Teaching Children in Violent Times: Building a Peaceable

Classrooms , professor of early childhood education at Wheelock College,

Cambridge resident, and friend of Early Childhood Connections has sent us

three articles that are closely related to our work in supporting children

during the war.

Here are websites that are useful:

National Association for the Education of Young

2. American Academy of Pediatrics

3. National Center for Children Exposed to Violence, Yale Child Study

4. National Parent Information Network www.npln.org

5. Will They Fly a Plane into Our House?, an interactive book which can

be modified for current events

Here are two sites to use if interested in adoption a soldier/sailor (mail

can make all the difference in morale):

If you'd like to send some gently used paperbacks for the troops in the

Persian Gulf-- they do ask that we send no extremely racy covers or