While well-baby visits are not required by law, they are considered critical to a child’s health and development. Skipping wellness visits and falling behind on your infant’s checkup schedule could lead to missing certain health or developmental problems, and delaying needed medical treatment. I...
Nearly half of parents say they schedule well visits with their child's regular provider even if they have a long wait for an appointment. A third of parents also strongly agree their child is more likely to follow advice if it comes from a provider their child knows well. For their child...
To support eye health, you can urge your child to establish a regular sleeping schedule. 4. Ensure that eyeglasses and contact lenses are used correctly. Children may not be careful while using eyeglasses or contact lenses. You might support them and instruct them on how to wear it properly...
Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people...
However, there are several reasons why we should stop using physical punishment. One point is that most parents are not trained to deal with misbehaving children. They don’t have enough resources or choices to handle the situation. As a result, they immediately react by hitting the child even...
(Seriously, so much of the stuff I’ve been watching is just because it comes up on the preview and my curiosity gets the better of me.) This is the unholy love child of Harry Potter and The Hunger Games. Very long voice over explains the whole thing. The “smart people” faction ...
“I grew up on a hundred-acre farm and had only cats playmates,” Kruger, the seventy-year-old man, says. “My hearing was damaged by the of farm equipment, so I learned to connect with .They react to what they see and what you do.” Inky was a gentle cat, the house with five...
I went for what was to be my last check up before diving. The doctor told me that at one year post surgery my back was fused and everything looked good. But… There’s always a but. I was devastated as he told me that in his view while I had just spent a year recovering from ...
no secret about the fact that it’s not my personal favorite time of year. Southern Indiana turns into a swamp in July. But I am determined to make the most of summer this year, so I’ve spent some time compiling a list of activities to fill up our schedule without draining my ...
Part of it comes from the world of memes, which annually remind us that not every child comes equipped with the verbal, motor, or social skills to do Halloween in the traditional way. When the season rolls around I try to retrieve the memories that respond to that knowledge. In addition ...