When Duct Tape Won’t Work
A CD-Rom from the National Fatherhood Initiative
This interactive CD-Rom is a “guide to the basic health and safety of your infant or toddler.” Below is an outline of the materials covered on this CD-Rom in order to make it easier for you to become familiar with the resource and determine how to best use it in your library.
The CD-Rom can be viewed in an animated or text version. The text version provides more detailed information and often includes health or safety checklists. It is relatively easy to navigate from topic to topic. The text version also makes it easier to find the quizzes and checklists.
Outline of Material Covered by When Duct Tape Won't Work
- Preparing for the Birth: Free weekly Dad e-mail available at fatherhood.org
- Here Comes Baby
- The First Check Up: Parents can view lists of what to expect at these checks ups from newborn to 36 months
- Infant Car Seat: chart with safety tips
- You, Mom, and Caring for Baby
- Relationship with Mom—Dads’ loneliness or depression postpartumdads.org
- Running on Empty—Tips: sleep when the baby sleeps
- Paternity Leave—Unpaid leave is a law
- Caring for Your Baby—Emphasizes learning on the job. Mentions that dads shouldn’t feel like the babysitter, but it doesn’t elaborate on this.
- Sex Life
- Reminder that Mom and Dad won’t be able to have sex for a bit
- Child-Safe Home—Exercises that require the user to identify common household hazards
- Living Room—Click on unsafe areas in the room. Then learn why they are unsafe
- Kitchen
- Bedroom
- SIDS
- Bathroom
- Backyard
- Gunsafety
- Preventing Harm to Your Child
- Burns—how to prevent and treat them
- Sunburn—most sunscreen shouldn’t be used on children younger than 5!
- Preventing Drowning
- Cuts, Scrapes and Bleeding—click on band-aids to learn more
- Head Injuries—Assessing their seriousness
- Poison Prevention
- Lead Poisoning
- Choking—The most preventable cause of death of children under 1
- Managing Anger—Causes and strategies for avoiding it
- Your Child’s Style
- Going to the doctor for check-ups
- Nutrition, shots, what to do when they’re sick
- Babies’ behavior changes when they’re sick
- Activity: Figure out your child’s style. Knowing your child’s style lets you have healthy expectations about their behavior and can keep you from getting frustrated when they react to something. Is your child Easy Challenging, or Slow to Warm Up?
- Communication Style
- Crying
- Colic
- The Five S’s (to stop crying): Swaddling, side/stomach, shh, swinging, sucking
- Check-Up and Detecting Fevers
- The doctor’s office
- Taking temperatures—normal and fever ranges
- Thermometers—different types
- When to call the doctor
- Treating a Fever
- Medicine
- Other Treatments
- Consult a doctor if you have questions
- Nutrition
- Feeding your Child—Click on the spoon for feeding tips
- Immunizations and the Common Cold
- Immunizations
- Cold Symptoms—When to call the doctor
- Treating a cold at home
- Dehydration
- Conclusion
A Few Additional Resources
(please add any resources you think might be useful to other librarians trying to plan programming based on this CD-Rom!)
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BeWell– local health care resources for the uninsured, might have health care centers in your area with which you can partner
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