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  • Grilling Tips To Keep Your Kids Safe

    Summer means more cookouts— and more grill-related injuries. Burns caused by fire and contact with hot surfaces are the most common grilling injuries. Children younger than 5 years, who may bump into, accidentally touch or fall onto the grill, account for about half of those burns.

  • How To Monitor Your Child’s Use of Video Games

    We’ve all heard about the potential dangers of video games. Your child could spend hours absorbed in a game that might be violent, instead of getting some much-needed physical activity or hanging out with friends.

  • Teaching Your Child Bicycle Safety

    An easy and fun way for you and your kids to explore and get exercise is riding bicycles together.

  • RSV: When Is It Serious for Your Child?

    RSV is so common that most children have been infected with it by the time they're 2 years old. The virus can cause complications, especially in infants, that require hospitalization. Here’s what you need to know.

  • 8 Tips To Keep Your Child Safe During the Holidays

    The holiday season is full of joy and excitement, but it also can bring risks for your child. Here are eight essential safety tips to help you keep your little one safe during the festivities.

  • How to use music to promote your infants development

    In our previous post, we talked about how some unpleasant sounds in your baby’s everyday surroundings can cause stress and negatively affect your baby. When sound is used appropriately, though, it can also promote healthy growth and development. One of the ways we can use sound to do just that is through music. 

  • Is homeopathic medicine a good alternative for my child?

    While scanning the shelves of your neighborhood pharmacy looking for a product to help your sick child, you’ve undoubtedly run across homeopathic medicines at some time or another. These alternative therapies offer to treat a child’s teething pain, tummy trouble, colic, earaches, allergies, coughs and colds (among other common problems) and often make nearly irresistible promises about your child’s health and wellbeing.

  • 5 reasons why your kids need dental sealants

    There may be another aspect of kids’ dental health, though, that you don’t know much about: dental sealants. Ever heard of them? I’m not sure I had until recently, and I’m probably not alone.

  • New guidelines on preventing peanut allergies: what you need to know

    Forget everything you thought you knew about preventing food allergies (well, not every thing, but some of the things).

  • How to help your child achieve their New Years goal for good health

    This is a perfect time to evaluate your previous New Year’s health goals and make sure you and your family stay on track. Many families have goals such as eating dinner together, grocery shopping as a family, focusing on eating more vegetables, or going for nightly walks after dinner. Surprisingly, many kids also have their own goals they would like to accomplish. Supporting and encouraging your child while they tackle their goal is a great way to make sure they succeed.