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and ensures their needs are being met, while working to find a safe, permanent home.

CASA Volunteers make a tremendous impact in the lives of the children they serve, and more are needed to help make sure children in foster care do not have to face the chaos of the child welfare system alone.

To learn how to become an Advocate, or if you are unable to volunteer at this time and would like to make a donation, visit www.casaofthesouthplains.org or call 806-763-2272.

3 Security Tips For Online

All parents need to closely monitor their kids’ use of tablets, phones and devices, as well as all social media profiles. It’s no secret that sexual predators lurk online, looking for their next victim. While what you tell your kids should be age- appropriate, here’s a list of things you ought to KEEP reminding them:

1. Everything you do online is public. If you wouldn’t do or say it standing in the middle of your classroom with everyone present, don’t do it online.

2. There is NO delete button. Removing comments and photos is like trying to take pee out of a pool.

3. Trust NO ONE online. Really bad, ugly, nasty people are online looking to fool you.

As to your older kids, you might remind them that schools and employers use social media to review you, so make sure what you post is what you’d want them to see.

- Advice from the technology experts at Bazar Solutions, Lubbock

By Elva Edwards

Sometimes we don’t want to hear the truth because it creates so much intellectual and emotional dissonance in us. We want to believe that people will do what is best for us.

If you have a child or plan to have a child or if you truly value your own health, read the book, “The Real Anthony Fauci” by Robert Kennedy Jr. DO NOT take his word for it. You do not have to because it is one of the most referenced books I’ve ever read.

If you don’t believe something he says, look up his references. I’d love to hear from you after reading.

There are people who do not want to know information that is different from what they already think.

Adulting is taking in ALL the information and using your own brain to determine what you think is best. If you add experiments to prove one way or the other, that is the scientific method. In other words, the responsibility falls squarely on our shoulders.

In science everything is considered. They might laugh at your idea, but in real science, it is proven one way or the other, not mandated.

For example, when I was a kid and people had a stomach ulcer, medicine thought it was because they were worried and anxious. A doctor from Australia wrote a paper proposing there was an infection often involved with an ulcer. He was laughed at, mocked, derided.

But 10 years later when the “experiments to prove him wrong” came in, oops, he was right.

How many of you have been treated for helicobacter pylori? That is the infection. He was right.

- elva@DrElvaEdwards.com