Travel Tune-up: How to Help Your Child Adjust
Vacation is the time to chuck the alarm clock and strike out for unfamiliar territory. But your daily grind is your child’s security. She thrives on predictability, on knowing what’s next. Take away her routine and she’s liable to start whining, cryin…
Learn MoreKids, Soda, and Obesity
Soda addiction has long been a problem in our nation’s schools. Every day for years, many kids have lined up at vending machines to buy their 20-ounce bottles of sugar and carbonated water before they go off to study important subjects like history, m…
Learn MoreBaby Supplies: The Checklist
As the Girl Scouts motto goes: Be prepared. The better supplied you are before your baby gets here, the smoother your transition to parenthood will be. What follows is a handy checklist so you can make sure you’ve got the right stuff in time for your …
Learn MoreBabyproofing Your Home
With his 2-year-old upstairs taking a nap, Tim Anderson* seized the chance to do some yard work. A few moments later, he was bewildered to find the toddler lying on the lawn, crying inconsolably. That’s odd, he thought: How did he get downstairs so fa…
Learn MoreHow to Handle Medical Emergencies Away From Home
At home, you probably have your doctors’ numbers posted near the phone and your child’s medical records handy in case of an emergency. On vacation, you should be no less prepared. Here are some tips:Before You GoAsk your doctor if he or she can refer …
Learn MoreCorporal Punishment and Trauma
It was spring when Joshua Watson, a sixth-grader at Alvarado Intermediate School in Alvarado, Texas, had an unsettling decision to make — whether to accept a five-day in-school suspension or be struck three times with a paddle. His offense: earning h…
Learn MoreType 2 Diabetes and Kids: The Growing Epidemic
Can children get type 2 diabetes?Before the obesity epidemic in the United States, type 2 diabetes was practically unheard of in people under 30. That explains the former name for the disease: adult-onset diabetes. Not long ago, almost all children wi…
Learn MoreChildhood Obesity: Guidelines for Families
Children and teens in America are three times more likely to be overweight than they were 30 years ago. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, about one out of five U.S. children is now obese. While there are a few mysteries and unans…
Learn MoreEven in His Youth
In 1994, Kurt Cobain took his life at the age of 27. Like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and other rock stars who died young before him, Cobain has achieved a youthful immortality in which his memory endures as symbol more than man. As the …
Learn MoreDepression and Violence in Teens
It was just another Monday morning, the beginning of a normal school week, when 15-year-old Charles Andrew Williams whipped out a .22-caliber revolver in the bathroom of his high school in Santee, California, and unleashed a barrage of fire at the stu…
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