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Child Dsvalopmsnt Csntsr.
Often, when parents think of
getting their children ready for
schotf, they think of things such
as shoes, coats, boots and books.
But 'what about your child's
health status - the physical, mental
and social development?
Although the health of
American children is better than
ever before, when children enter
school, many new demands are
made that can lead to long-term
health Problems
Childhood contagious diseases
largely can be prevented, and
protection should have been
started shortly after birth. If they
were not received then, immunizations
must be started as
soon as possible, because many ~
schools require parents to present
the child's immunization record
prior to school entry.
The basic immunization series
(DTP, 3 doses) includes
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ty (like African-Americans)
underachieve because they are
not using their original African
culture as a basis of achievement;
rather, they are denying it and
working for an assimilation that
cannot take place.
* The truth is that whites are not
going to share white centers of
pbwer, and blacks are never going
to be white.
The Jews understand the myth
of the melting pot; Arabs understand
it. The new wave of Asians,
Koreans in particular, succeed in
spite of white (and. increasinolv.
black) hostility. And I challenge
anyohe to prove, as J.L.C.
alleges, that Koreans or West IndianS
are subsidized by corporations
or governments.
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3 What other non-white groups
are demonstrating with their success
is that racism can be beaten
by group unity. Blacks who cling
qverrate its potential. The new
economic leaders in America will .
not be white Anglo-Saxon Protestants,
but Jews, Koreans,
Italians, Vietnamese, Hispanics
apd blacks who are indigenous to
, a* culture other than America's
^ack slave colony.
- The acceptance of the facts
sftiould not be a source of embarrassment
or envy toward West Indians
or hatred toward all whites.
Rather, we must become inspired
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set by these various ethnic
groups (the black ones in particular).
? African-Americans can either
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, As a start, Congress should
E legislation, now pending,
would permit states to raise
Medicaid eligibility cutoff to
the federal poverty level in the
gase of maternity and infant
coverage. It is an important first
step in a much more long-term
and essential effort to make sure
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diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis,
or whooping cough, and,
preferably along with the oral
polio vaccine (OPV, 3 doses),
should be given during the first
year of a child's life.
The booster doses for all four
are given one year after the third
DTP and polio doses, with additional
booster doses before
school entry. Tetanus and
diphtheria boosters should be
repeated every 10 years
throughout life.
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immunizations against
measles, mumps and rubella, or
German measles, can be given as
a combined vaccine at any time
after the child reaches the age of
15 months.
A recently licensed vaccine to
protect children against
hemophilus influenza bacterial
infections, or HIB, is recommended
for all children at 24
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choose the path of least resistance
and blame everything and
everybody for our problems and
guarantee our continued destruction
and misery, or we can face
reality and free ourselves from
the self-doubt that racism has
built into our psyche.
Out of the depths of ourselves
must come a love of what we are,
not a desire for or hatred of what
we are not. African-Americans,
as we now know them, must die.
We must go into the darkness
to find the light. When we
understand that pride in
ourselves is more powerful than
racism can ever hope to be, we
will develop insight, self-mastery
and the subsequent ability to
stand alone.
Therefore, the death I refer to
is the great step forward when we
shed the old self of the plantation
slave mentality - the belief that
whites can do anything to us they
-desire because they are powerful and
that powerlessness
characterizes our condition.
Like a seed that ?nM intr*
darkness of the earth, breaks it
shell and creates new life, we
must go into the darkness of
ourselves in order to find the
light.
Blacks need not fight the
darkness; blacks need to turn on
the light.
Tony Brown is a syndicated
columnist and television
host, whose series, "Tony
Brown's Journal," can be
seen Sundays at 1:30 locally
on channels 4 and 26.
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Marian Wright Edelman is a
National Newspaper Publishers
Association columnist
who is president of the
Children's Defense Fund, a
national voice for youth.
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months. For those who did not
receive the vaccine at this age( immunization
against HIB is recommended
through the fifth year,
especially for children- in day
care.
In very young children, HIB
can cause acute, often lifethreatening
infections such as
meningitis, pneumonia, throat
infections and blood infections.
In addition to immunizations,
a complete physical examination
should be obtained prior to entry
or return to school. The physi- i
cian should include evaluation of t
growth, nutritional status, hear- i
ing and vision, determination of s
the health status of various 1
systems of the body, detection of <
infection or anemia and assess- <
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development - the quality of in- J t
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A weekly column by Les
Payne, a Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist and one of America's
most respected minority-issues i
commentators, will appear in the i
Chronicle starting Sept, 25. ' . I
In his column, distributed by i
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Payne focuses on a wide spectrum
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realities, inequities and i
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lions. With the decline of infecious
diseases and acute illnesses
n school-age children, problems
?uch as learning disabilities,
behavior problems, emotional
disturbances, school troubles,
*nd problems of speech, vision
ind the teeth are more frequent
md more visible.
To prevent school adjustment
difficulties, care should be takep
:o prepare your child emotionafty
for school.
Before the first day, take your
:hild for a visit to the school.
acquire nev
jects ranging from migrant farm
workers, drug trafficking, the
Black Panther Party and illegal
aliens to involuntary sterilization,
the assassination of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. and the kidnapping
of newspaper heiress Patricia
Hearst.
He is author of 4The Life and
Death of. the SLA," an in-?
vestigative account of the revolutionary
Symbionese Liberation
Army that terrorized the West
Cost.
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Pointing out the entrance, the
classroom and the playground^ >
allow the child an opportunity to <
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and the method of tranportation; i
if possible, make a rehearsal trip.
Introduce the child to other
students who have been or will be
in the child's school or class. Introduce
yourself and the child to
the principal, teacher, nurse,
counselor and other key school
personnel.
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1974 Pulitzer Prize for public ser- 1
vice reporting. For the series, i
Payne spent more than six mon- t
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poppy fields of Turkey to the i
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bean and the United Nations, '
covering political, economic and ^
military developments. 1
In the wake of the 1976 Soweto 4
uprising, he traveled throughout 1
South Africa, writing an 11-part
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ecommened for the 1978 foreign
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le was the first American jourlalist
to visit guerrilla-held areas
n Rhodesia-Zimbabwe.
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las been on numerous radio and
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