exchange program

A student exchange program is a program in which a student, typically in secondary or higher education, chooses to live in a foreign country to learn, among other things, language and culture. These programs are called 'exchanges' because originally the goal was an exchange of students between different countries. No trade off is actually required, so a student is allowed to go to another country without finding a counterpart in that country to exchange with. Students live with a host family, who are usually unpaid volunteers and can be a traditional family, a single parent, or a couple with no children at home. Host families are vetted by the organization co-ordinating the program. In the United States, the Department of State requires that each person 18 or older in a host family receive a criminal background check.

school family solidarity

The family is the most infuliential instution in the life of the child.;the school runs a close second.Whatever the schoolcan do to help stabilize the child' family following crisis stablizes
the student.This can be accomplished through a number of orchestrated outreach strategies.



Send home material explaning the nature of the crisis,the manner in which children may be affeted,and the steps parentscan take to assists their child.





Encourage parentes and teacher led meetings to assist parents in planning and networking.

School staff can visit key homes to assess functioning and provide assistance or can organize visitsby others.Suggest that parents put together a newsletter.

obesity in children

Children who regularly consume more calories than they use will gain weight. If this is not reversed, the child will become obese over time. Consumption of just 100 calories (the equivalent of 8 ounces of a soft drink) above daily requirements will typically result in a 10-pound weight gain over one year. Many different factors contribute to this imbalance between c

alorie intake and consumption.

Genetic factors

Obesity tends to run in families.
A child with an obese parent, brother, or sister is more likely to become obese.
Genetics alone does not cause obesity. Obesity will occur only when a child eats more calories than he or she uses.

Dietary habits

Children's dietary habits have shifted away from healthy foods (such as fruits, vegetables, and whole grains) to a much greater reliance on fast food, processed snack foods, and sugary drinks.
These foods tend to be high in fat and/or calories and low in many other nutrients.
Patterns associated with obesity are eating when not hungry and eating while watching TV or doing homework.

Socioeconomic status

Low family incomes and having nonworking parents are associated with greater calorie intake for activity level.

Physical inactivity

The popularity of television, computers, and video games translates into an increasingly sedentary (inactive) lifestyle for many children in the United States.
Children in the United States spend an average of over three hours per day watching television. Not only does this use little energy (calories), it also encourages snacking.
Fewer than half of children in the United States have a parent who engages in regular physical exercise.

Only one third of children in the United States have daily physical education at school.
Parents' busy schedules and fears about safety prevent many children from taking part in after-school sports programs.

Certain medical conditions can cause obesity, but these are very rare. They include hormone or other chemical imbalances and inherited disorders of metabolism.
Certain medication can cause weight gain by altering how the body processes food or stores fa

Effect of the violent cartoons

Studies have shown that based on the quality and quantity of cartoons a child watches it will have an impact on a childs behavior be it negative or positive. Some studies show that boys are influenced more by violent cartoons than girls are. Young children do not understand that a cartoon is not based on reality and will tend to act out the violent scene they have seen in the cartoon. Children tend to copy the actions they see in cartoon characters like fighting, hitting, saying bad words and being disrespectful to parents and teachers in the classrooms.

The media is constantly creating new cartoons with increased violence and children do not realize how harmful this is to them. As they sit in front of the television set they are bombarded with images of violence. A typical child watches about 30 hours of television each week. Some of the effects may be that children are less interested in school, they exhibit violent and aggressive behavior, they spend less time interacting with parents and friends, increased anxiety in children, they become more passive and are easily bored by cartoons that contain little or no "action." There definitely is a link between a childs behavior and violent cartoons.

We can also see extreme violence in cartoon movies and video games that children play on a daily basis even though these movies and games come with a rating according to a childs age they still contain some form of violence.

There are some things we can do as parents to limit the amount of violence our children are exposed to. Educational and christian cartoons are a good way to instill positive values in a child. The government has taken steps to increase the amount of educational programming available to children. Set a time limit for the amount of television a child watches and monitor the cartoons they are watching. Become aware of the cartoons that contain violence and replace them with powerful learning programs that teach and uplift a child.