Tag: children
group name: health
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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July 23, 2007 10:07 PM EDT --
I don't have teenagers any longer. My children have children who are teens and preteen. I've seen the advertisements on gather about cough medicine abuse and on other sites . . . more
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September 24, 2007 05:54 PM EDT --
The idea of inducing a suicide is horrifying, and most horrifying of all is if the suicide is by a child. No wonder there’s such a high degree of concern about prescribing antidepressants to children. . . . more
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November 19, 2007 10:29 AM EST --
Do your kids fight bedtime? Are you constantly trying to coerce them into getting into bed and going to sleep without a fuss? Well, new information from the journal Pediatrics suggests that making sure . . . more
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December 10, 2007 05:14 PM EST --
It is that time of year again.
In the midst of the holiday season, advertisements for toys and other gifts are everywhere. In the face of this media blitz, it is not surprising that many kids develop . . . more
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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
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March 14, 2008 03:53 AM EDT --
Dumb Americans
by Marilyn Mackenzie
Sadly, if you're a member of a site like this, another social network site, or even a writer's site, you can almost tell the age of most folks by . . . more
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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
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December 28, 2007 03:35 PM EST --
Here's a good new year's resolution: resolve to eat meals together regularly with your family.
There's new evidence that it's healthy in a number of measurable . . . more
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July 09, 2008 02:10 PM EDT --
The American Academy of Pediatrics just released new recommendations for children at high risk of developing cardiovascular disease. For some children, as young as two years of age may be appropriate. . . . more
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November 05, 2007 09:01 AM EST --
The number of single-parent households is on the rise, as the number of families with children headed by a single parent doubled in the past 30 years. This growth is paired with a growth of acceptance . . . more
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