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What Kinds of Medicine You Should Have On Hand for a Newborn
One of the most difficult parts of being a parent is caring for a child when they are sick. This can be especially true of newborns as it can be difficult…
What to expect when dealing with postpartum recovery and care
Pregnancy is a long 9 months, but it doesn’t end there! Postpartum care and recovery really does encompass a lot of things and most are a shock and…
Brand New Baby Teeth: 4 Tips to Teach Your Toddler to Care for Their Teeth
If you are the parent of a toddler, you might already be concerned about his or her dental health. After all, taking good care of your child’s teeth…
3 Important Things to Know and Understand before You Start a Family
If you have decided to start trying to have a baby, you may have an idyllic image of what your pregnancy experience will be like. You may also have grand…
Sick Kids? How to Help Keep Them Healthy During the Cold and Flu Season
Children tend to spend most of their time in environments where germs and viruses can thrive. Fortunately, there are steps parents can take to keep their…
How To Look After Yourself After Motherhood
Have you just given birth? Congratulations on the amazing gift of motherhood. Many adventures lie ahead for you and your baby, not to mention…
Everything You Need To Know About Paternity Testing
We all receive half our genetic information from our mother and half from our father, and this genetic information is used in paternity tests to determine…
Life with Kids: How to Handle the Inevitable Owies
If you have children, then they will experience minor injuries occasionally. It is important to understand how to cope with the bruises or bumps that happen…
Four Important Things to do When Your Infant is Sick
One of the biggest fears that all new parents have is the worry about their infant getting sick. Your baby is going get sick sometimes because infants tend…
Sniffling Kids: 4 Warning Signs That They Need Immediate Care
The common cold is a relatively mild infection that can be treated at home. What's frightening is that some of the common symptoms can also be signs of…
The 4 Best Ways to Advance Your Healthcare Career
The growing healthcare industry provides multiple ways of advancement for those engaged in this vast field. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics…
About the Unwillingness of a Child doing its Homework
First of all I want you to realize, that understanding the problems through reading this article, is offering already…
Keeping Your Children Away From ADD and ADHD Can Be Fun !
Here is first a short introduction to psychiatric labeling:
Since many years countless names and…
Study Technology is Providing the Solution for Correct Learning
This outstanding technology got originally developed for people of any age, whoever wanted to improve his own learning skills…
How to boost your breast milk supply
Breast milk is wonderful for a newborn and infant. The mother's breast milk contains the perfect concoction of necessary ingredients that help an…
Put YOU First.
Perhaps a selfish concept but if YOU are not health and happy those closest to you will suffer. Why is it that pregnant mothers will give up alcohol and…
What Defines A Good Parent?
Someone who is honest, loving, kind, leads by example, thoughtful and disciplines are just a few traits that might describe a good parent. Nearly all parents…
Personality can hide depression
According to a research published online by the journal International Psychogeriatrics a person's personality can hide the common symptoms of depression.…
Oxytocin and Parenting
It's a mom and pop thingPhiladelphia, PA, 20 August, 2010 - The hormone oxytocin has come under intensive study in light of emerging evidence that its…
Introducing the Wellness Resources Daily Prenatal Multi Vitamin
Wellness Resources has set a new quality standard for prenatal nutrition with the introduction of our Daily Prenatal Multi Vitamin. Never before have…
Green Living and Prenatal Care: 10 Things You Need to Know To Ensure Your Baby Arrives Healthy Despite the Toxic World Around Us
Nutritional expert Dr. Carolyn Dean talks about how you can apply green living to protect your unborn child and have a smooth delivery and a healthy child.…
Low Vitamin C Impairs Early Brain Development
Researchers have found that low vitamin C in early life results in 30 per cent less hippocampal neurons and markedly worse spatial memory (animal study). …
Communicating with your Teenager
Improving the channel of communication between yourself and your teenager is essential to a respectable and loving parent-child relationship. Just as a radio…
Fit Five Kids
FitFive Healthy Kids Program gets children off to a good start in life.For children to be fit and healthy they require a balanced diet and sufficient exercise…
5 Tips to Improve Parenting
1. Patience. In a world full of turmoil it can be really difficult to cultivate patience but as hard as it may be it is essential to happiness. Without…
Kids and Parents Talking About the Facts of Life
When parents decide to talk to their kids about 'the facts of life' it usually leads into one of those embarrassing situations (from the children's…
Family and the Future of Love Relationships
If you look at the average 20 year old, the chances that they have had any real education about relationships and love are pretty slim. Growing up as kids,…
Improving your child's happiness in a fast-changing society
An interview with Sarah McCrum, director of the Academy of Potential EducationJimmy Allen: What can parents do to improve their children's happiness and…
Relaxed parents are stress management experts
An interview with Sarah McCrum, director of the Academy of Potential EducationJimmy Allen: If you were to give parents a simple and quick piece of advice to…
An Un Costly Budget For Better Health and Wellbeing
We are living in a time of great need to understand ourselves on a deeper level of awareness. Now is the time for society to…
Creating a Balanced Inner World for Our Children
We are all made up of many parts. For example, if we are fifty, we still have a part of us that is twelve. It may show up when we are at a carnival with our…
Rainy Day Activities for Kids and Dogs
"It's raining, it's pouring, everything is boring!"Rainy days with stir-crazy kids and dogs can try your sanity. When your kids wail that…
Quick Exercises for Parents
We all know how difficult it is to stay in shape and find time to exercise - but most especially for parents with babies or small kids. There's the…
Emotional Development is the Software
Just like a car needs gas to run, we need food to run our bodies and minds. The difference between a car and our minds, is that we have emotions, feelings and…
A Puppy Party for Kid-Friendly Dogs
Hosting a puppy party is a great way to help your new puppy begin enjoying and feeling at ease around kids. Puppies under 5 months old can learn a lot in an…
What to Do When Your Child is Afraid of Dogs
Whenever Laura sees a dog, she shrieks and clings to her mother's leg. Thomas runs the other way. And Samuel just freezes, wide eyed in terror.Each of…
Three Steps for Meeting a Dog: Instructions for Parents
It is very important to teach kids how to interact with dogs they are interested in. Childish excitement could be interpreted as a threat by inexperienced…
The Seven Stages of Parenthood
Stage 1: Me, have kids? Really? Your biological alarm goes off. Every baby is unbeliveably cute. Am I ready for kids? They are pretty…
Help! My Child Won't go to School
"How do I get my nine-year-old daughter to school? She seems to have tummy aches or headaches constantly, and misses several days of school each week. Any…
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Cognitive Dissonance and Child Abuse
Cognitive dissonance is a stressful state of mind that occurs when a person is holding either two beneficial or adverse options simultaneously and the…
News Articles
Parents fall ill twice as much as anyone else, new research has revealed
Bugs picked up at nursery and in the playground mean that those with young children suffer from more colds and viruses than those without and the average…
iPods ‘Louder than Pneumatic Drills’ Warn Experts
Millions of Brits are risking their hearing by listening to music at a volume louder than a pneumatic drill, a study revealed yesterday.Researchers found one…
Parents' mental health more likely to suffer when a grown child struggles
Situation not mitigated by having one successful child, study findsEven into adulthood, problem children continue to give their parents heartache, and it…
Tongue Piercing May Cause Gapped Teeth, According to UB Study
First, your child gets her tongue pierced. Then, as if you needed something else, she starts "playing" with the tiny barbell-shaped stud, pushing it…
Point-of-sale advertising major cause of teen smoking, Stanford study shows
STANFORD, USA. - Point-of-sale tobacco advertising works impressively well on teens - so well that federal regulators should consider barring such marketing…
Who is likely to become a bully, victim or both?
New research shows poor problem-solving increases risk for allWASHINGTON, USA - Children and adolescents who lack social problem-solving skills are more at…
ISU study finds TV viewing, video game play contribute to kids’ attention problems
Parents looking to get their kid's attention - or keeping them focused at home and in the classroom - should try to limit their television viewing and…
Difficult childhoods lead to teenage drinking
An African study has found a link between a difficult childhood and alcohol consumption as a teenager. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access…
Venetian blinds can cause accidental strangulation
Personal view: Accidental strangulation with a Venetian blind cord -- a near missDr Mahesh Masand, consultant paediatrician at Dr Grays Hospital in Elgin,…
Antidepressants in pregnancy increase risk of miscarriage
A new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) found a 68% increase in the overall risk of miscarriage in pregnant women using…
Parents' physical inactivity influences children
Children are more likely to watch high levels of television if their parents do, but parents do not need to be physically active to help their children to be…
Waterpipes: A new worrying trend on the rise?
Hookah or shisha use on rise yet contains nicotine, carbon monoxide and carcinogensMontreal, CANADA - As fewer people puff on cigarettes, a new smoking trend…
Less sleep may add up to more pounds in adolescents
Study finds inadequate sleep a risk factor for childhood obesity, especially among boys, middle school studentsAdolescents who don't get enough sleep may…
UK families with disabled children more likely to live in poverty
Disabled children in the UK are more likely to likely to live with low-income, deprivation, debt and poor housing. University of Warwick researchers writing in…
Lung virus taking its toll on young lives, study finds
A common virus that causes wheezing and pneumonia claims the lives of up to two hundred thousand children worldwide each year, a study has found.The research,…
Talk to your babies
Northwestern University researchers have found that even before infants begin to speak, words play an important role in their cognition. For 3-month-old…
Emergency contraception: Advance provision does not reduce pregnancy rates
Providing emergency contraception to women in advance of need does not reduce pregnancy rates, despite increased use and faster use after unprotected sexual…
ATV and Motocross Sports – High Velocity Toys Merit Caution
Over the years, all terrain vehicles (ATVs) and motocross motorcycles have gained popularity and marketed as toys to consumers. These high-velocity machines…
US birth weights on the decline
Boston, USA - Thirteen-pound babies may make headlines, but they aren't the norm. In fact, U.S. infants are getting smaller, according to researchers at…
5 Christmas Tips for Children with ADHD
Washington, D.C. USA - Parents of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) often cringe during the holidays. The expectation of presents…
UK incidence of children living with substance-misusing parents considerably underestimated
Current figures underestimate the number of children who may be at risk of harm from parental substance use. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC…
Child burn injuries down significantly
In the next 60 seconds, another child will be on his/her way to the hospital to be treated for serious burns; it happens more than 300 times a day in this…
Universal screening lowers risk of severe jaundice in infants
Screening all newborns for excessive bilirubin in the blood can significantly decrease the incidence of severe jaundice, which, in extreme cases, can lead to…
Exercise Is Healthy for Mother and Child During Pregnancy
Physicians should recommend low to moderate levels of exercise to their pregnant patients, even if they have not exercised prior to pregnancy, states a report…
Study: being active as a preschooler pays off later in childhood
IOWA, USA - Being active at the age of 5 helps children stay lean as they age even if they don't remain as active later in childhood; a new University of…
Home DNA paternity tests coming to a pharmacy near you
EDENBRIDGE, UK - In response to phenomenal success in the USA, International Biosciences, in partnership with the National Pharmacy Association, are soon to…
Colic In Babies May Be Caused By Gut Bacteria
HOUSTON, USA - Researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Centre at Houston say one organism discovered during their study may unlock the key to…