Public domain material comes in many shapes, sizes and forms. All Public Domain content has been published before and read by editors and approved by publishers… so you can be sure it’s quality content.
How would you find and use Public Domain informations about Babies and Children? Wouldn’t it be outdated?
Here are just some of the types of copyright free information I found waiting to be used.
Babies (… and kids of all ages) don’t come with directions... and everyone thinks they might be doing it wrong.
- There have always been (and always will be) babies.
- And homemade baby food.
- And homemade baby clothes.
- And homemade baby toys.
Can you find a small niche to fill about babies or raising children?
Public Domain Information taken directly from the FDA government website…
Giving Children Medicine
“Open wide … here comes the choo-choo.”
When it comes to giving children medicine, a little imagination never hurts.
But what’s more important is vigilance: giving the medicine at the right time at the right dose, avoiding interactions between drugs, watching out for tampering, and asking your child’s doctor or the pharmacist about any concerns you may have.
Whether it’s a prescription or over-the-counter (OTC) drug, dispensing medicine properly to children is important. Given incorrectly, drugs may be ineffective or harmful.
Read the Label
“The most important thing for parents is to know what the drug is, how to use it, and what reactions to look for,” says Paula Botstein, M.D., pediatrician and acting director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Drug Evaluation III. She recommends that a parent should ask the doctor or pharmacist a number of questions before accepting any prescription:
- What is the drug and what is it for?
- Will there be a problem with other drugs my child is taking?
- How often and for how long does my child need to take it?
- What if my child misses a dose?
- What side effects does it have and how soon will it start working?
Reading Nursery Rhymes
Hundreds of old children’s books are now “copyright free”!
Or… Maybe you have an eBay store filled with children’s frame-able art for sale:
Tips For Raising Children
We may raise our children differently than our parents and grandparents… but should we?
Most children can be, and many are, hopelessly warped and wasted by parents who are ignorant and silly enough to suppose that they know what a human being ought to be, and who stick at nothing in their determination to force their children into their molds.
Every child has a right to its own bent. It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.
In a family of ten, eight, six, or even four children, the rights of the younger ones to a great extent take care of themselves and of the rights of the elder ones too.
Two adult parents, in spite of a house to keep and an income to earn, can still interfere to a disastrous extent with the rights and liberties of one child. But by the time a fourth child has arrived, they are not only outnumbered two to one, but are getting tired of the thankless and mischievous job of bringing up their children in the way they think they should go.
The children may receive a good deal of individual attention from one another in the shape of outspoken reproach, ruthless ridicule, and violent resistance to their attempts at aggression.
Experienced parents, when children’s rights are preached to them, very naturally ask whether children are to be allowed to do what they like. The best reply is to ask whether adults are to be allowed to do what they like. The two cases are the same. The adult who is nasty is not allowed to do what he likes: neither should the child who likes to be nasty. There is no difference in principle between the rights of a child and those of an adult: the difference in their cases is one of circumstance.
A child is a restless, noisy little animal, with an insatiable appetite for knowledge, and consequently a maddening persistence in asking questions.
If the child is to remain in the room with a highly intelligent and sensitive adult, it must be told, and if necessary forced, to sit still and not speak, which is injurious to its health, unnatural, unjust, and therefore cruel and selfish beyond toleration.
Author: Shaw, George Bernard, 1856-1950
Title: Treatise on Parents and Children
Vintage Art is always popular… but what about vintage writing? Is it so different raising our kids now as it was then? Yes… technology has changed our lives and our world.
But… think about the way technology changed in times past? Telephones, radio and television we not available to children several generations ago… How did that change the way parents raised their children? And… Can we learn from those older experiences as well?
What If The Content Is Outdated?
If the baby is nursed, the mother will
do best to go into a quiet room, close the
door, and lie down. Teach the household
to let you rest while the baby takes a meal
You and the child will both enjoy it more.
There will be no chance of the baby’s
being frightened or distracted. And as
for you, if the message is not impera-
tive, you are not needed: and if there
is a real emergency or problem in the
household, this is just the time when you
must not know of it. If necessary, pin
a paper sign on the door — “Don’t dis-
turb baby at his meals,” or the equiva-
lent.
After this nursing, or bottle, comes the
best nap of the day. Care should be taken
to have all the circumstances right. A
healthy baby should sleep outdoors (ex-
cept when the thermometer is below
20°, or when a temperature of 32° at
lower is accompanied by raw, windy, or
sunless weather), or in a south bay win-
dow with all the windows open. It must
be remembered that the city dust is as
dangerous as fresh air is valuable, and a
sunny back roof, with a surface that is
never cleaned, may be a wretched place,
though it looks very enticing.
You could rewrite the text to fit modern day…. or – it could be fun to do a comparison between the old and new ways of child care. 
In cold weather the baby, in a shirt and nightgown, should go into a sleeping-blanket buttoned up to the neck. Every baby should have at least two sleeping-blankets, one to nap, and one for cold nights. Take no chances.
The young mother who explains baby’s cold or stomach upset by saying, “He kicked out last night,” is not doing her job.
With an active older baby, it’s best to pin the bottom of the bag closed with a large safety pin. Diaper pins are useful and much safer than small safety pins, which a strong child tears open and which will lie loose in the bed. All safety pins should be put in very carefully.
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