CHILDREN
Popular baby names for each state available
Did you check to see how popular your name is? Last week the Social Security Administration announced the most popular baby names nationally for 2012. For years after 1879 you can learn the national ...
Posted on 5/16/13 at 3:56 PM
Seventy Times Seven
I was an English major in college, which effectively means that I know how to read a long boring book and write pages and pages on symbolic interpretation that may or may not be valid. What a crucial ...
Posted on 5/15/13 at 2:01 PM
Surround Myself With Truth
Deuteronomy 4: 6-10 is a famous, familiar, and fantastic passage. After leaving Egypt, walking through the Red Sea, and being led by God by day and night, I would think that God should expect that ...
Posted on 5/6/13 at 6:17 AM
When to Say No: A parent's guide to giving adult children money
When I work with clients who give money to their adult children, I am always curious why. Since preparing a comprehensive budget is part of the counseling process, the topic often comes up. The adult ...
Posted on 4/12/13 at 9:56 AM
What To Do With Your Messy Child
So what do you do if your child is messy and you fear their future as a star on the show "Hoarders"? First be realistic. Is it really that bad or are you just imagining it? Second, start b...
Posted on 4/12/13 at 7:59 AM
Day care owner charged
A day care owner has been charged and had her license suspended after being accused of striking a 4-year-old boy. Heidi Senum, 39, owner and operator of a home-based day care, was charged Friday with malicious punishment of a child in state district court in Thief River Falls.By Forum News Service , May 18, 2013
Crews find bodies of 2 NC children trapped in dirt
Authorities on Monday recovered the bodies of two young cousins buried when a wall of dirt fell on them while they were playing in a hole at a home construction site in North Carolina.By Mitch Weiss,Associated Press , April 08, 2013
Woman accused of child abuse, neglect
BISMARCK (AP) — Bond has been set at $2,000 for a Bismarck woman accused of leaving her two toddlers home alone.By Associated Press , March 18, 2013
Group seeking public comment on services for children with disabilties
The North Dakota Department of Human Services’ Developmental Disabilities Division will host public meeting via video conference to gather public comment on its policy, which addresses services for children from birth through age 2 with developmental disabilities or delays and their families at 6:30 p.m. March 14 and at 7 p.m. March 19.By Forum News Service , March 06, 2013
Michelle Obama highlights obesity progress in MS
Michelle Obama on Wednesday congratulated this Southern state for a more than 13 percent drop in its child obesity rates and said its example should inspire the rest of the country.February 27, 2013
Boy convicted of killing white supremacist father
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A boy who was only 10 when he fatally shot his white supremacist father was convicted Monday of second-degree murder by a judge who said the child knew what he did was wrong.By Greg Risling, Associated Press , January 14, 2013
Fingerprinting to be expedited
The Bureau of Indian Affairs has announced an initiative to expedite fingerprinting of foster parents on the Fort Totten Indian Reservation.January 11, 2013
Disabled parents face bias, loss of kids: report
Millions of Americans with disabilities have gained innumerable rights and opportunities since Congress passed landmark legislation on their behalf in 1990. And yet advocates say barriers and bias still abound when it comes to one basic human right: To be a parent.By David Crary, AP National Writer , November 26, 2012
Official: BIA to run Spirit Lake child protection for years
The federal Bureau of Indian Affairs, which assumed responsibility for child protection services at Spirit Lake Monday, likely will manage the program for several years before returning responsibility to the tribe, the BIA’s regional director said.By By Chuck Haga, Forum Communications , October 04, 2012
Islamists recruit, pay for child soldiers
By Baba Ahmed and Krista Larson, Associated Press , October 03, 2012
Little Owl out at Spirit Lake social services
A man hired in mid-August by the Spirit Lake Tribe to restore its embattled social services department says he will not continue as director after the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs takes over on Oct. 1.September 21, 2012
Feds make offer to Spirit Lake Tribe’s prosecutor: Proposal for deeper partnership between federal prosecutors part of broader offer of support for tribe
Federal prosecutors have offered to make the Spirit Lake Tribe’s prosecutor a special U.S. attorney and to help the tribe develop a strategic plan to protect children from violence.By By Patrick Springer , Forum Communications , September 05, 2012
Feds have sought Spirit Lake changes for months
Correspondence obtained by Forum Communications between the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Spirit Lake Tribe over the past six months shows the federal agency persistently urging the tribe to fix serious problems in its management of Tribal Social Services.By By Chuck Haga, Forum Communications , September 03, 2012
Protecting kids, Federal official renews criticism of state officials’ actions
A federal official has renewed his criticisms that state human services officials have not acted aggressively enough to protect endangered children from the Spirit Lake reservation.By By Patrick Springer , Forum Communications , August 29, 2012
Tribe seeks child services solution
Spirit Lake officials met here Monday with a “strike team” of U.S. Interior Department officials, hoping to reassure the director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and others that they are making progress on improving the tribe’s embattled social services department. Tribal chairman Roger Yankton said that he and other tribal leaders “are reassuring them that we’re working on this.”By By Chuck Haga , Forum Communications , August 28, 2012
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