Everyday Illness and Injuries
From the flu to nosebleeds to broken bones, we've got you covered from head to toe with tons of info about common illnesses and injuries...
Fostering Healthy Eating Habits In Your Baby
If you’re concerned about your baby’s health, you want to be certain to start healthy eating habits early. The first year of solid foods is a very important time for establishing your child’s eating habits. What your child eats, and more importantly, does not eat, during this time can impact their habits for life. Here are some tips for starting out right with your child’s first menu...
Overweight Children – What Can A Parent Do To Help?
The latest figures released in the US state that 15 percent of children and teenagers are now considered overweight, up from 6% 20 years ago. Statistics in the UK are similar, and rising. Whilst children starve in Africa, kids in the Western world are lining up to suffer a frightening array of weight-related illnesses, including skin and joint problems, early osteoporosis, type II diabetes, bowel cancer, high blood pressure, heart attack and strokes. Recent research also suggests that obese kids are 77% more likely to suffer from asthma...
Five Tips To Get Kids to Eat Healthier
Dealing with an overweight child can be a very delicate situation. We do not want to damage their self esteem by telling them they are fat or lazy, yet at the same time they must be conscious that they have to be more aware of their weight and eating habits for them to be healthy. Parents have a significant influence over the situation. Consequently most of the effort will have to come from the parents. Try these tips for getting kids to eat healthier...
How To Potty Train In Two Days
Ah, potty training! Go to a local bookseller and you will find dozens of books on the subject. Search the Net and there are thousands of websites with information on how to do it stress free. There are even people who are capitalizing on a parent's frustration with potty training by offering to do it for you, for a hefty sum! I honestly can't imagine anything more unseemly than paying someone to teach my child to "go"...
How To Grow A Zen Child (Growing Happy, Healthy Children Naturally)
When children are raised naturally, in keeping with their own true hearts, there is nothing that we need to teach them about Zen. In fact, the children then become our teachers, reminding us of what is important and expressing themselves naturally...
Newborn Parenting Tips
Get help and information to deal with common parenting challenges and problems, so that you raise happy and healthy kids...
Who needs a flu shot?
Uh-oh. Could you need another shot? Yes, but like all shots, this one can protect you from a pretty awful illness - the flu. In a healthy person, the flu causes a fever, muscle aches and other cold-like symptoms. The person will sleep a lot and feel sick, but he or she will get better in 1 or 2 weeks...
A Fast Track to Toilet Training for Those at the Crawling Stage
Hannah Rothstein, 7 months old, has double thighs and a dimpled bottom, but very svelte German underwear. She can still fit into her birth-to-3-month-old clothes because she lacks her peers' familiar bulge in the rear. She can sleep all night without a diaper. And during the day, every so often, after her mother, Melinda, of Newton, Mass., places her on a plastic potty and makes a little "pss-wss-wss" sound like the one used to call a cat, Hannah uses the toilet...