For many RCT is a bad word. Both experimental RCT and quasi-experimental methods try to get at causal impacts of programmes and policies. Quasi-experimental methods use other techniques to construct a comparison group of people who did not receive the treatment. However, we cannot be as certain the estimated impacts are a result of the treatment, and not due to other factors.
However, non-experimental and quasi-experimental come with limitations. Funding might be withdrawn and an effective program is cut off. Or we might overestimate program impacts and conclude that a program is more successful than it really is also with ethical implications.
Resources might be allocated to this program over another program that actually works, or works better. There are several reasons for this. Yes, my password is: Forgot your password? Stay up to date on the latest with our official Community app. Let's Go No, thanks. Community Highlight Announcements. Share your favorite OnePlus memories by dsmonteiro , Recent Threads Invite people to test Orbit and win prizes!
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Involve children and teens in making a family budget A budget is how we decide what we will spend our money on, even in stressful times. Making a budget together helps children understand that we all need to make hard decisions in difficult times.
It also helps families to have enough at the end of the month and borrow less. What do we spend now? Get a piece of paper or old newspaper or a cardboard box and a pen. Draw pictures of all the things that you and your family spend money on each month. Write next to each picture how much each thing costs. Add up how much money you have each month to spend. Talk about needs and wants Needs: Which things are important or must have for your family to survive?
Discuss with your children what things you could try to spend less on. Build your own budget Find a bag of stones or anything with lots of pieces. This is your money for the month.
As a family, decide what you will spend on what, and put the stones on your picture. If you can save even a tiny amount for the future, or for another emergency — it is great! Find out if there is help you can get Your government may be giving money, or food parcels to families during COVID Ask about whether places in your community are giving support. Stay where you are Limit those leaving and returning to your immediate living space to as few and as infrequent as possible.
Only leave your household or area for essential reasons like getting food or medical attention. Help your children with physical distancing Explain to your children that they have an important job of keeping themselves and their community healthy by temporarily physically. Make handwashing and hygiene fun! It might be hard to find soap and water, but practicing good hygiene is more important now than ever.
Let children teach each other how to wash their hands. Encourage children to avoid touching their face. Exercise daily Encourage children to think of activities they can do to exercise while avoiding contact with people who do not live already in your immediate space.
Jumping activities, dancing or running in circles can be fun! Take a pause You might not have space to yourself to deal with all the stress and emotions you are feeling. Notice when you are feeling stressed or upset and take a pause…even three deep breaths can make a difference! Millions of families find that this helps. Parenting children with disabilities All children, including those with disabilities, need love, respect, nurturing, and time, especially during difficult and uncertain times.
Keep your child safe It is strongly recommended that you follow local guidelines for COVID while helping your child stay as active as possible both indoors and outdoors. Keep emergency contact numbers where you can easily see it, such as on the refrigerator. Ask for help if you can Share the load with other adult family members.
You are not alone! Keep connected with people who understand your situation. Share your challenges AND your successes. It is normal to feel stressed, frustrated and afraid at this time.
Be kind to yourself and take a break when you need to! Be supportive, empathetic and loving Your child may not have the same support they usually have and this can lead to additional challenges, such as increased stress, anxiety and frustration. Use physical and verbal support to make your child feel accepted and loved. Positive body language, gestures and words make a big difference!
Maintain eye contact and a positive attitude. Take your time to allow your child the space to communicate. Observe, listen to and confirm that you understand your child. Reinforce the positive! Reinforce strengths with praise and stimulate their abilities rather than highlight the things they cannot do.
Only help children when they need it. Too much support denies them the chance to become independent and can feel patronizing. Strengthen routines Routines help children feel secure and safe. Create a daily routine with activities that are familiar to your child and include some of their favourite activities. Help your child connect to friends and family members via phone chats, writing cards or drawing pictures. Provide your child with choices so that they have a sense of control.
This also increases self-esteem. Use simple language and clear instructions and nonverbal communication for children who need it for example: gestures, pictures, and visual aids. Parenting teens Adolescents may be missing school, friends and their social life. Spend time with your teen Plan creative ways to communicate with friends and family e. Cook a favourite meal together.
Exercise together to their favourite music. Talk about something they like: sports, music, celebrities, friends. Task them with exploring a topic and reporting back to the family from a radio programme, a newspaper article or the internet.
Sharing responsibilities Teens appreciate having extra responsibilities. Allow them to choose a special job that helps out. Create a time during the day where everyone shares one thing that they enjoyed. Making routines Involve your teen in creating daily schedules. Set goals and rewards together. Make sure your teen has time to relax along with structured time for chores and schoolwork. Dealing with difficult behaviour Talk through the effects of challenging behaviour.
Explore alternatives with your teen and let them make suggestions. Decide together on clear and fair rules and boundaries. Praise your teen when they behave well and follow guidelines. Promote kindness and compassion Model kindness and compassion for those who are sick and those who are caring for the sick. Share how your teen can make a difference like standing up for someone facing discrimination or helping a neighbor with food deliveries if they live alone.
Help your teen manage stress Teens will get stressed too - sometimes from different things than you. Allow them to express how they feel and accept their feelings.
Try to listen to your teen and see things from their perspective. Do relaxing and fun activities together. Keep your teen safe online Involve your teen in creating family tech agreements about healthy device use. Help your teen learn how to keep personal information private, especially from strangers.
Remind your teen that they can talk to you whenever they experience something upsetting online. Sharing is caring Use social media, phone calls and anything at your disposal to reach out and connect with others. Take turns with others to care for your baby. Take time for YOU. Sleep when your baby sleeps so you have energy. Repeat and react to their babble or words. Use words to describe what your baby is doing. Learning with your baby Make their environment interesting!
Babies respond to stimulation. Let your baby explore the world through the 5 senses! Babies learn through play! We met with Adam, Abdulqudus, Sara, Randa and others. Each time I name them, I see the images clearly of them lying in their beds. Some of them supported by their families. Some of them just lying on their own, with hardly anybody to support them. Yemen, colleagues, is today a living hell for children. A living hell not for per cent of children. It is a living hell for every single boy and girl in Yemen.
There are in Yemen during any given year, 1. Forty per cent of these , are living in Hodeida and in neighbouring governorates where the war is raging.
We were lucky on Thursday — we were really lucky. We were lucky to be able to attend to some of these children in al-Thawra hospital — the only remaining referral hospital in Hodeida. The al-Thawra hospital is one, maximum two kilometers from the frontline. But unfortunately by Friday, the hospital had become off-limits.
Thursday night, we hardly managed to catch any sleep because of the heavy fighting around us throughout the night. As I lay awake, I thought of the children I had seen a few hours before.
Sara, for example, a child half paralyzed by diphtheria — an illness that is entirely preventable by vaccine if children get it in time. Half of her body is paralyzed. I thought of Sara. As she was healing, she was hearing the shelling going on. Just imagine what this little girl was thinking. Half of Yemeni children under the age of 5 — half — are chronically malnourished. This is a vicious cycle. When giving birth, these women know that their children will be of low birth weight, starting that cycle of malnutrition and leading to chronic malnutrition and all the health consequences for these boys and girls.
So the 50 per cent of Yemeni children under the age of 5 who are today chronically malnourished are all children who will never develop to their full intellectual potential. That is bad for the children and bad for Yemen, if we ever want Yemen to be a country where it is good to live as a child.
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