A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine is stating that close to 50% of children who are deemed obese in eighth grade were obese children before they even entered kindergarten. Obesity prevention needs to start earlier or the childhood...
If visits to the dentist are traumatic for you as an adult, imagine what they must be like for your younger children. It’s tempting to ignore the early years of a little ones dental health on the assumption that adult teeth will come in soon enough and a...
A child born prematurely is at a disadvantage as it grows up. The preemies are likely to suffer from disabilities and impairments both physical and mental. This affects their growth and development in comparison to other children of their age.
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Questions come from young children from the moment they start talking. Why, Mommy? How, Daddy? At the end of a normal day, parents often wonder how such a small being could ask so many things. Children are born with insatiable curiosity, something that...
Parenting the three- to five-year-old set is hard work! As your babies take their first toddling steps, and then break into a run, it’s a race to keep up with their physical, social and emotional development.
