Early Childhood Education Consultant for 10 years.
Three children: 31, 18, & 17
Five grandchildren: 11, 7, 6, 2, & one month

Current: Have written over 129 articles for demand media and eHow.com on topics as diverse as parenting, family and relationships, business, health, mental health and disabilities, education primarily related to K-12 issues for both children and parents, safety, domestic abuse, etc.

My articles can be accessed by going to eHow.com and entering my name, Jerrie DeRose, into the website search bar. You can read the articles, send emails which provide a link to the individual articles to the recipients, and print them for disbursement.

Wrote book review for preschooleducation.com for one year until became too busy with work to continue.

Job duties related to Early Childhood Education Consulting, 1996 - 2007

Reviewed Early Head Start and Head Start programs nationwide triennially and on follow-up if needed along with other skilled and experienced reviewers and a team leader.

Worked directly with the team leader attendng meetings, participating in question and answer sessions with parents and staff. Helped team members with report writing including editing, and following protocol set by federal performance standards. Uploaded completed reports into a web based program. Aided the team leader in editing final reports for content, grammar, punctuation, and the relationship between different program components.

Developed and wrote resource materials for workshops for parents and staff working with children on Using Library Resources to teach children 3-13 healthy conflict resolution and to apply it to situations with other children, attachment, understanding the political process and its paralells with the Head Start Parent Policy Council, and health MH practises for young children.

1991: Awarded the National Head Start Association Eugenia Boggus Leadership Award for authoring my parenting newsletter column, 'Surviving Parenthood Intact" for over 6 years

Region VII Head Start Board member six years, Kansas Head Start Board member four years. Secretary for both.

Family Support Tech. two years with the local Mental Health Center to teach, provide resources, and work with families following the re-integration of their children with mental health exceptionalities into the home from state hospitals, foster care, etc.

My passion is ...

Grassroots advocacy on behalf of children and families

I know too much about ...

Suicide through the death of my children's father, a friend of my 18 & 19 year old who recently took his own life, and the suicide of a neighbor.

My parents always told me ...

To never forget where I came from or who I am, to be objective and non-judgmental, to respect others even if I disagreed with their beliefs, and that hyprocrisy is not an acceptable behavior.

My childhood ambition ...

To be a writer

My favorite memory ...

Watching the life long connection between my parents and learning from them how to have a sustainable relationship

Why I write ...

I love the feel and sounds of words, I enjoy providing information to others which I have garnered from research and/or my life and wok experiences, and to explore the nuances of life and experience .,

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I like to watch LMN's Army Wives, Rita Rocks, Ugly Betty, Psyche, and Tyler Perry's House of Paine, reading Stephen King and Joyce Carol Oates, and listening to alternative music and Death Cab For Cuties Recording "Into the Dark" which my daughter, then 17 chose for her father's service following his suicide

My first job ...

Working as a waitres in my uncle's cafe and at the local amusement park during high school

My best moment ...

The birth of my children

My inspiration ...

My father, God bless him, deceased this last nine years and my mother, both of whom has loved all six of us unconditionally

Parenting & Pregnancy > Parenting Tips Monitoring what children watch on television for content and effect

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Turn the television on any night of the week and most shows, regardless of genre; contain varying amounts and degrees of violence, sex or sexual innuendo, and profane language. There is a growing concern that television and movie content is affecting how children and teens perceive the world around them. Some psychologists, sociologists, and other professionals have researched and compiled data showing a direct link between sexual and violent behaviors and television programming and movies.
However, professionals do not agree on what damage, if any, is caused by violent or sexual content...

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