As parents, we want to keep our children safe from harm. Take steps to keep your children safe by

• Installing the right child safety seat in your
• Teaching children how to cross the street safely
• Making sure they wear the right gear and equipment for sports>
• Installing and testing smoke alarms
• Storing medicines, cleaners and other dangerous substances in locked cabinets
• Babyproofing your home
• Not leaving small children unattended

Education of Disabled Children in India
India has some forty to eighty million people living with disability; among them thirty percent of them are children below the age of fourteen years. In Indian ninety per cent of disabled children do not get any form of schooling. There are number of families which are living below the poverty and many families have to make choices about which of their kids they can afford to send to school. Parents of disabled children have more difficult choices, as they also have the burden of medical treatment, and others .

No population-based study has been conducted at the national level to supply genuine data on the prevalence and incidence of disability in India. Therefore we must rely on the projections made by trial surveys. According to an estimation population with disability in India is about over 90 million, of these twelve million are blind, twenty nine million are with low vision, twelve million are with speech and hearing defects, six million orthopedically handicapped, twenty four million mentally retarded, eight million mentally ill.

Children need to be educated about our planet and all the different life forms that inhabit the earth. Teaching a child about the millions of species of animals that exist in this world, half of them in the rainforests, is a good thing. This article on the endangered rainforest animals for your kids to know covers some of these animals in danger of extinction to create awareness among children. Since our children are the future of our country, teaching them is our duty.