With school starting soon, parents have been quite attentive with their questions about school attendance and how concerned they should be when their child must miss school for one reason or another. I will attend to these concerns and provide some information on absenteeism and the problems ...

With the fall season approaching, children are out and about, and parents want to enroll them in all kinds of fall weather sports activities. Parents often ask me when a child is ready to try a team sport. Let me try to be game enough to answer that question. - Benefits of playing a ...

Since Aug. 1-7 was World Breastfeeding Week, breastfeeding mothers have been asking me lots of questions about what they should be eating to ensure they and their babies stay healthy when they breastfeed. - Important nutritional information - Breastfeeding mothers need at least 300-500 ...

Parents have been dosing out lots of questions about how to give medications properly to their children and avoid unnecessary errors. This week, I’ll prescribe some helpful information on this topic. Medication errors are a common occurrence. In fact, a recent study in the journal ...

Parents of infants have been crying out to me to ask if there are sleep products for their baby they should avoid buying or being given because they might be unsafe. I don’t want to baby the importance of this topic — so let me provide some information. Unsafe baby products for sleep ...

Parents have been extremely interested in asking me what to do when their children tell them they are bored. This month is national anti-boredom month, and I am anything but bored to answer that question. - Benefits of boredom - Given how organized the lives of children seem to be ...