One of the saddest questions I get from parents is how to how to help a child cope with the death of a pet. It is important to understand that how a child deals with a pet’s death depends largely on their age and personality. Until children are age 5 or 6, their view of the word is very ...

Parents have been itching to ask me whether their child’s itchy skin could be eczema, so let me do more than skin the surface on this topic. Eczema is a term that describes a skin condition in which the skin gets red and irritated and forms tiny red bumps that can ooze fluid or crust ...

Perhaps because National Grandparents Day was Sept. 7, grandparents have begun to ask me for advice about how to tell their own children how to parent — which is interesting because parents frequently ask me how they should deal with grandparents who want to offer advice on every facet of ...

Parents have been asking me some hair-raising questions about what to do when their children experience excessive hair loss. Well, let me see if I can comb out some information on this topic. Believe it or not, we all lose about 50 to 100 hairs a day! This can happen through excessive ...

Parents have been pressuring me to give them some tips to help their children deal with peer pressure. Let me see if I can decompress some of their concerns and provide some information on this topic. - Effects of peer pressure - Peer pressure can have both positive and negative ...

Parents have been testing me with questions about how to make sure their children get a good and healthy start as they head back to school at the end of the month. Let me take on that assignment and provide five tips on this topic. 1. Make sure your child is in good health by having a ...