Safe Environments
(Estimate 1 hour to complete)

Keeping children safe is critical and this includes physical and emotional safety, as well as safe learning environments.
In this module, we’ll walk through this principle from a Child Honouring perspective.
Here are our favourite resources to explore the principle of Safe Environments in more detail.
Books & Articles
Little Things Matter: The Impact of Toxins on the Developing Brain, Bruce Lanphear
Toxic Childhood: How The Modern World Is Damaging Our Children And What We Can Do About It, Sue Palmer
https://www.amazon.ca/Toxic-Childhood-Modern-Damaging-Children/dp/140913752X/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1551399914&refinements=p_27%3ASue+Palmer&s=books&sr=1-1
No Child Left Different, Sharna Olfman
https://www.amazon.ca/Child-Left-Different-Sharna-Olfman/dp/1578867746/ref=sr_1_4?qid=1551399942&refinements=p_27%3ASharna+Olfman&s=books&sr=1-4
Healthy Environment For Kids
http://www.healthyenvironmentforkids.ca/sites/healthyenvironmentforkids.ca/files/cpche-resources/CPCHE_VandS.pdf
Videos
Marketing Food to Children, Anna Lappe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bop3D7-dDM
Lunch Lessons, Changing the Way we Feed Our Children: Ann Cooper at TEDxManhattan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVJv91n39Q8
Toxic Childhood, Sue Palmer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjvULWAXzFk
How Technology is Affecting your Child
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSmE1YPhtA8Kamal Mettle: How to grow fresh air
Kamal Mettle: How to Grow Fresh Air
https://www.ted.com/talks/kamal_meattle_on_how_to_grow_your_own_fresh_air
Tyrone Hayes + Penelope Jagessar Chaffer: The toxic baby?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9NFPZGyDPg
Websites & Blogs
Healthy Environment for Kids
http://www.healthyenvironmentforkids.ca/
Screentime Network
https://screentimenetwork.org/
Media Smarts, Screen Time Advice
http://mediasmarts.ca/blog/what-every-parent-should-know-about-screen-time-expert-advice
Media Smarts, Marketing and Consumerism are Special Issues with Young Children
http://mediasmarts.ca/marketing-consumerism/marketing-consumerism-special-issues-young-children
Health Link BC
https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/health-topics/ue5091
Module Content
Here are our favourite resources to explore the principle of Safe Environments in more detail.
Books & Articles
Little Things Matter: The Impact of Toxins on the Developing Brain, Bruce Lanphear
Toxic Childhood: How The Modern World Is Damaging Our Children And What We Can Do About It, Sue Palmer
https://www.amazon.ca/Toxic-Childhood-Modern-Damaging-Children/dp/140913752X/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1551399914&refinements=p_27%3ASue+Palmer&s=books&sr=1-1
No Child Left Different, Sharna Olfman
https://www.amazon.ca/Child-Left-Different-Sharna-Olfman/dp/1578867746/ref=sr_1_4?qid=1551399942&refinements=p_27%3ASharna+Olfman&s=books&sr=1-4
Healthy Environment For Kids
http://www.healthyenvironmentforkids.ca/sites/healthyenvironmentforkids.ca/files/cpche-resources/CPCHE_VandS.pdf
Videos
Marketing Food to Children, Anna Lappe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bop3D7-dDM
Lunch Lessons, Changing the Way we Feed Our Children: Ann Cooper at TEDxManhattan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVJv91n39Q8
Toxic Childhood, Sue Palmer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjvULWAXzFk
How Technology is Affecting your Child
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSmE1YPhtA8Kamal Mettle: How to grow fresh air
Kamal Mettle: How to Grow Fresh Air
https://www.ted.com/talks/kamal_meattle_on_how_to_grow_your_own_fresh_air
Tyrone Hayes + Penelope Jagessar Chaffer: The toxic baby?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9NFPZGyDPg
Websites & Blogs
Healthy Environment for Kids
http://www.healthyenvironmentforkids.ca/
Screentime Network
https://screentimenetwork.org/
Media Smarts, Screen Time Advice
http://mediasmarts.ca/blog/what-every-parent-should-know-about-screen-time-expert-advice
Media Smarts, Marketing and Consumerism are Special Issues with Young Children
http://mediasmarts.ca/marketing-consumerism/marketing-consumerism-special-issues-young-children
Health Link BC
https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/health-topics/ue5091
