Tag: children
group name: health
|
May 09, 2007 02:01 AM EDT --
The parent-child relationship doesn’t occur in a void. New findings in the field of behavioral genetics, for example, suggest that children are equally likely to affect how parents behave. Despite . . .
more
|
|
November 14, 2008 03:15 AM EST --
First, the statistics. About a third of American children are overweight and one-fifth are obese - and the numbers are increasing every year. Surprisingly, not too many parents seem to be concerned . . .
more
|
|
November 12, 2007 10:23 AM EST --
I was waiting on the checkout line at the hardware store the other day, when a man in front of me started yelling at his son, who was about six or seven years old. The boy had grabbed a candy bar, and . . .
more
|
|
September 25, 2007 12:58 PM EDT --
These days, I’m doing something in my pediatric practice that I didn’t plan on doing: I’m giving medications to children with attention problems.
When I started working in pediatrics . . .
more
|
|
April 28, 2009 08:57 PM EDT --
I went to have my 14 year old diagnosed today. The diagnosis is "Developmental Trauma Disorder."
Developmental Trauma Disorder is when a child doesn't develop normally because . . .
more
|
|
September 15, 2007 11:32 AM EDT --
I don’t have a sense of humor. It’s been missing for years. Once when I was about seventeen or sixteen, I think I had the glimmer of one, but, somehow, it was misplaced. . . .
more
|
|
August 20, 2007 09:26 PM EDT --
In the morning I will take my beautiful daughter to the hospital. We will both be scared but we won't speak of it. There will be someone that comes out to talk to us, to explain the dangers of . . .
more
|
|
September 26, 2008 10:23 PM EDT --
" From the ends of the earth I shall cry unto Thee. When my heart is overwhelmed..."
We recently found out that our daughter suffered from hypoxia several years ago. Hypoxia is a lack of . . .
more
|
|
September 04, 2007 07:25 PM EDT --
Apparently 17% of British high school students and 9.6% of elementary school students do not want to eat Jamie Oliver's healthy lunches.
What that actually means is that the kids are not familiar . . .
more
|
|
October 24, 2007 11:03 PM EDT --
It’s not every day that an average mom from suburban Boston gets to sit down with the wife of a presidential candidate. So when I was asked by Gather.com to conduct an interview with Elizabeth Edwards, . . .
more
|
|
July 19, 2007 07:02 PM EDT --
Oprah Winfrey will host a fund-raiser for Barack Obama. She'll host Obama and his wife, Michelle, at her Santa Barbara-area home on Sept. 8.
Entry fee is $2,300 per person, with donors getting . . .
more
|
|
February 05, 2007 09:58 PM EST --
My youngest son, 9, dragged my sewing machine across the living room floor. I heard it before I saw it, heard the bump and lurch of white metal scrape old oak.
"What are you doing! Hey! You're . . .
more
|
|
March 20, 2007 10:46 AM EDT --
My son, age 12, noticed it first. He pointed with his fork as I placed a plate of stirfry on the table in front of him.
"Mom. Your stomach is pooching out."
I glanced down at my midriff, at . . .
more
|
|
January 15, 2008 06:20 PM EST --
Chickenpox is an infection that causes an itchy, blistering rash and is very contagious. It is caused by varicella-zoster virus (VZV), which enters the body through the mouth and nose after contact with . . .
more
|
|
April 09, 2007 05:45 PM EDT --
Parenting attitudes have undergone a sea change during the past century and especially during the last 4 decades. These changes have weakened the ability of parents to exert their will over children's . . .
more
|
|
July 24, 2007 12:29 PM EDT --
We hear about the epidemic of childhood obesity on the news so much these days that it’s easy to stop paying attention. We hardly listen when they tell us, yet again, about the scary statistics. . . .
more
|
|
March 18, 2008 01:55 PM EDT --
My parental resolution for this year is to do a better job of talking about sex with my children.
It's not that I've done a bad job—at least I don't think I have. I'm a pediatrician, . . .
more
|
|
July 10, 2009 02:01 PM EDT --
As a parent is it extremely difficult when we know our child has a health problem. With me it is my daughter. She needs a heart transplant which has been constantly put back due to new heart . . .
more
|
|
November 30, 2007 08:49 AM EST --
A Seattle fourteen-year-old Seattle boy died of leukemia after a judge ruled he had the right to refuse a life saving blood transfusion because of his religious beliefs. Dennis Lindberg . . .
more
|
|
June 15, 2009 01:55 PM EDT --
Parents are often distressed when the full head of hair on their cute newborn suddenly melts away. In fact, many babies begin to look like their dads! A study done several years ago showed that many . . .
more
|
|
|
|
