July 17, 2019

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside.
-Anne Frank

When teachers withhold recess or time outdoors as punishment, it is harmful to children, a recent study shows...An article on healthline.com explains: "According to parents across the country, many teachers are still using the restriction of recess as punishment despite evidence showing it may be doing more harm than good. Jessie Staska Walker, a concerned parent, told Healthline that her first grader gets only 10 minutes of recess per day. 'If the class as a whole has a hard time listening that day, the entire class is made to sit out of recess for five minutes,' she said. 'I'm against it, but the bigger problem is they only have 10 minutes to begin with.'...

July 31st is National Heatstroke Prevention Day. As summer heats up, heatstroke continues to be the number one vehicle-related killer of children, outside of car crashes, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. Children are more vulnerable to heatstroke than adults, especially in the summer months and when it starts to get hot outside. Since 1998, more than 790 children across the United States have died from heatstroke when left unattended in a vehicle. Those deaths have occurred in the following ways:

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Ten years ago after teaching middle school mathematics for thirty years, I retired from the education system and began searching for activities to occupy my “free time”. I was already highly involved in church activities locally and regionally and had participated in several volunteer mission trips to Russia, Alaska, Mississippi and West Virginia projects.

Within weeks after retirement, a close friend and employee of MountainHeart – Summersville told me about the VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) program offered by their office. Knowing that I had spent my career working with numbers and computers, she asked if I might be willing to volunteer. Then within days I was training and began assisting tax-payers in the 2008 tax season.