Sometimes our children’s daily schedules are so busy with music lessons, tutoring sessions, and dental appointments that it’s hard to work in one of the most important activities that young minds and bodies need—letting our kids play outside. Getting out of the house helps kids…
Children’s Health articles
Backpacks are jammed with school supplies, closets are stocked with new clothes and shoes, and lunch-prep qualifies as a science at your house. Everybody’s ready for back to school, right? Not so fast. Are you prepared to protect your children from the bugs and crud…
Before you become a parent, you avoid bodily fluids at any cost. The next thing you know, you reach toward your kids to catch their puke. Gross, but true, and for some parents, dealing with vomit is all too common. So if you have a…
Halloween, for many, is one of the most fun and carefree holidays of the year! Now that you’ve bought your weight in candy to give out, and have positioned plastic jack o’ lanterns in every window, it’s time to prepare the rest of the family…
Most parents would agree: When your child is heartbroken or ill, you want nothing more than to take away their pain. What’s worse than seeing your kid suffer with vomiting, chills, and fever for days on end? You wish you could steal that flu away…
It’s that bittersweet time again: back to school. The lazy days of summer fun and family vacays are over, but your little ones are growing up—a grade higher than last year or starting school for the first time this year. Here are a few tips…
Parenting just may be the hardest job on the planet. As we raise our kids, we juggle work, relationships, our home and hobbies. Most parents have the same important goal: we want to have happy and healthy children. Yet, doing so can feel overwhelming. The…
Showing children how to get around in the kitchen properly will stay with them for a lifetime. Teaching them to cook creates opportunities for them to express themselves creatively. For working parents, an extra pair of hands in the kitchen on week nights can be…