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First Aid for your First Aid Kit
Has it been a while since you’ve checked or re-stocked your first aid kit? If so, now is the time to throw out any expired medicines, stock up on those that are safe for your kids, clean up all those bandage wrappers and refill the cotton swabs.
Open Wide: Shopping for a Dentist for Your Child
Your little one has made it through the teething phase and now has some adorable pearly whites. You might think you still have some time before you have to take her to the dentist. However, the American Dental Association recommends children visit a dentist by their first birthdays. This visit will help accustom your child to the dentist, and you can learn proper techniques for brushing and flossing his teeth.
Neti Pot: A Remedy With Hidden Dangers
The neti pot looks like a genie’s lamp. It is often used to flush out bacteria and irritating pollen and mold spores in the nasal passages to relieve sinus pain and allergies. Neti pots have been used for this purpose for centuries, but they can be life threatening if used improperly.
Playdate Confidential: Helping Your Child Choose Good Friends
When your children are young, you can have a good amount of control over which children they play with. But when your kids enter kindergarten, the days of hand-picking their playmates are over. So how can you help your children make good decisions about their friends?
The Meningococcal Vaccine: Updates and New Information
Every year in the United States about 2,800 people are infected with meningococcus and about 300 die. About 400 people who survive have permanent disabilities, such as seizures, loss of limbs, kidney disease, deafness and mental retardation. While the disease has no prejudices and can strike anyone, children less than 1 year old and adolescents are at the greatest risk.
A Really Good Morning: Getting Back into Your A.M. Routine
Jarring alarms, haphazard lunch packing and a frenzied dash to school with you in the center of the chaos, shouting out reminders to brush teeth, eat breakfast, find the homework. Does this sound like your morning? Now that winter break is about to end, it’s time to get your family back into the swing of the morning routine — and time to make your role less like a drill sergeant and more like a contented observer.
How to Help Your Young Nail Biter
As we get closer to 2012, you might be thinking about New Year’s resolutions both for you and your kids. If your child is a nail biter, we’ll try to help make 2012 the year she stops for good.
Have a REAL Happy Holiday: Take the Stress Out of the Season
For most families, the reality of the holiday season means harried shopping trips, overstimulated kids, burned holiday treats, broken ornaments and last-minute tree trimming. But there is a way to help your family have a fun holiday without the frazzle!
Managing the Holiday Gimmies
The twinkling lights, the festive music, the shiny wrapping paper and ribbons. As parents, the holiday season gives us a chance to surprise and delight our children with gifts. But all too often, the commercial aspect of the holiday season takes over, and these special times become a struggle to balance greed and gratitude.
New Guidelines for Media Use for Babies and Toddlers
Today, not only are there more educational television and video programs available for babies, there are more screens to watch them on. In a recent survey, 90 percent of parents said that their children under age 2 watch some form of electronic media, and these children are watching an average of one to two hours per day.
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