Dog Tags for Kids Link Children with Their Deployed Parents
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How Linking Objects Can Help Children Cope with Loss
These Dog Tags can serve a linking objects to connect children with their deployed parent or parents in the military, much the same way that a teddy bear does.
Image Credit: Image Compilation of Michal Zacharzewski's A Teddy Bear Royalty Free Use and Dog Tags for Kids Tags.
Linking objects are things that symbolically links one person
to another person.
These objects could be a trinket,
a bear, a book, a letter,
a ring or even a dog tag.
Dog Tags for Kids
Mission of Dog Tags for Kids
The Dog Tags for Kids Project is dedicated to helping United States Service men and women in most harm's way connect with their children at home. Specially engraved Dog Tags in the appropriate service color are provided FREE to the service members for their children.Dog tags are engraved with the "Mom" or "Dad," their military branch and where they are serving.
"With Love From Dad, U.S. Army, Iraq 2008."
Proud Kids with their Dog Tags
More Information on Dog Tags for Kids
- Dog Tags for Kids - From a Parent Overseas to a Child at Home
- Help send dog tags to soldiers in Iraq to send to their kids. From a Parent Overseas to a Child at Home.
- Dog Tags for Kids - Personalized Photo Tags
- Personalized photo tags are available for a $10 donation for the first one and a $4 donation for each copy.
A Featured Lens on Dog Tags for Kids
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Dog Tags for Kids
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Serving in the military, and being deployed into harm's way is hard on every soldier. For those with families left behind, the separation can be even more traumatic, especially for the younger ones at home. So how do you thank the troops for their pa...
Donate to Dog Tags for Kids
Help send dog tags to soldiers in Iraq to send to their kids. From a Parent Overseas to a Child at Home. You can help by donating today.
Night Catch in the Amazon Spotlight
Night Catch
Amazon Price: $10.85 (as of 01/03/2010)
Night Catch is a timeless story that connects families while they are apart and offers comforting hope for their reunion.
In this story a soldier's work takes him half-way around the world, so he enlists the help of the North Star for a nightly game of catch with his son.
Teddy Bear with a Dog Tag for Kids
Image Credit: Image Compilation of Michal Zacharzewski's A Teddy Bear Royalty Free Use and Dog Tags for Kids Tags.
Happy Kids with their Dog Tags
The Magic Box in the Amazon Spotlight
The Magic Box: When Parents Can't Be There to Tuck You in
Amazon Price: $9.95 (as of 01/03/2010)
"The Magic Box: When Parents Can't Be There to Tuck You in" is an upbeat and delightfully illustrated book contains many valuable tips for families in which a parent is frequently away from home.
Also contains a "Note to Parents".
Examples of Linking Objects or Personal Symbols
Here is a list of suggestions for symbols that could be used. (They have been slightly modified to better fit supporting families facing military deployment.)
- A quote from your favorite author.
- A favorite memory put on canvas, drawn, or sketched.
- Any object that belonged to the person you are wanting to connect with or one that was purchased for you.
- An emblem designed with a personal message that only you will know its meaning.
- Frame a line or two from a poem to hang in a special place in your home or office.
- A quilt (or bear) made of clothing worn by the person who has been deployed.
- A heart-shaped stone or other stone.
- A photo of a place you visited with your loved one or one cut from a magazine.
- A zipper tag clipped on to a coat zipper or a key chain.
- A pocket token.
A Personal Symbol is an object originally created to communicate
a particular personal belief, achievement, status
or membership.
If You Listen in the Amazon Spotlight
If You Listen
Amazon Price: $10.85 (as of 01/03/2010)
Two-time Caldecott Honor winner Charlotte Zolotow writes this loving tale about loss. The book helps answer the question, "If I can't see him, or hear him, or feel his hugs, how can I know he loves me when he isn't here?"
In it, a mother comforts her daughter about the absence of the child's father by explaining that if she listens hard, she'll feel him far away sending love to her.
Using Personal Symbols to Cope with Loss
- How to Use a Personal Symbol to Cope With Your Loss
- Everyone has soul needs, especially when grieving. Using a personal symbol will help you fill this deep inner need and have an immense effect on the focus of your thought life.
Dog Tags for Kids - One of the Benefactors of We the People Group
Dog Tags for Kids is one of the Benefactors of the We the People - Support the Troops Group.-
We the People - Support the Troops Headquarters
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We the People - Support the Troops Group was created to show our support for those who are serving in the Armed Forces. We are also supporting the families of the Troops who serve the United States. We support the troops by making lenses that benefit...
Examples of Dog Tags for Kids
Deployment Journal for Kids in the Amazon Spotlight
Deployment Journal for Kids
Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 01/03/2010)
The Deployment Journal provides a creative, expressive outlet for exploring thoughts and emotions during such a stressful time in the child's life.
Dr. David Fassler, M.D., Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont College of Medicine finds it to be "An excellent vehicle to help children express their thoughts and feelings, at their own pace, in a safe, supportive context."
I'll be Home for Christmas Featured Lenses
This lens features Josh Groban's beautiful tribute to the troops and also includes resources for coping with the holidays for those who are apart from loved ones.-
I'll Be Home for Christmas - Coping with the Holidays
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The classic song, "I'll Be Home for Christmas," is a song about longing to be home with the ones that you love. Listening to this beautiful melody and lyrics is one way of being home for a bit even when you're far apart...if only in your dr...
Books for Children with Moms in the Military on Amazon
My Mommy Wears Combat Boots
Amazon Price: $8.49 (as of 01/03/2010)
Mommy, You're My Hero
Amazon Price: $11.10 (as of 01/03/2010)
My Mom Wears Combat Boots
Amazon Price: (as of 01/03/2010)
Dog Tags from Parents
Books for Children with Dads in the Military on Amazon
Daddy, You're My Hero!
Amazon Price: $11.10 (as of 01/03/2010)
A Paper Hug
Amazon Price: $6.95 (as of 01/03/2010)
Daddy Is a Soldier
Amazon Price: $9.00 (as of 01/03/2010)
My Daddy is a Soldier
Amazon Price: (as of 01/03/2010)
My Dad's a Hero
Amazon Price: $12.78 (as of 01/03/2010)
A Featured Lens on Helping Children Cope with Loss and Grief
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Help a Child Cope with Loss and Grief
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Children and adolescents are not immune to facing loss, death, dying and grief; they encounter loss and will experience a grief response. Much as we, as parents and teacher, might want to protect and shelter children and try to create a world for the...
Get Your Own Dog Tag to Support the Troops
For a donation of $5 or more you can receive an "I Support Our Troops" tag to proudly wear.Remember this is a non-profit effort so all contributions are tax deductible.
Donate to Dog Tags for Kids
Help send dog tags to soldiers in Iraq to send to their kids. From a Parent Overseas to a Child at Home. You can help by donating today.
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What do you think about Dog Tags for Kids?
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- Senator Senator Sep 13, 2008 @ 9:02 am
- Great charity lens, 5 stars!
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- Christopher_Scott Christopher_Scott Sep 11, 2008 @ 8:07 pm
- Great job of supporting this charity with your lens! Keep it up!
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- tagsforkids tagsforkids Sep 11, 2008 @ 3:05 pm
- A great Lens, and a wonderful way to help this project. It has been extremely heartwarming to see the groundswell of support from the Squidoo community! Thank you for your help!
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- Starving_Artist Starving_Artist Sep 11, 2008 @ 1:37 pm
- what a wonderful way to keep a parent who is far away near to their heart 5*'s and I have blogged about 9/11 good deed challenge
Benefiting Dog Tags for Kids
This lens was especially created to benefit Dog Tags for Kids a grassroots effort to show our support for the troops and their families. All proceeds from sales of books and resources on this lens to to benefit Dog Tags for Kids.This nonprofit organization was founded to send Free Dog Tags to our troops in Iraq, Kuwait, and Afghanistan so they can send them to their kids back home with love from the deployed parent.
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