Mom’s Corner
How Old Should My Child Be Before They Go to Summer Camp?
Children love to spend time with their friends, and as summer approaches, they may ask if they can go to the same camp as their ...
Choosing good Friends
Friendship is an important part of your child’s healthy development. Companionship helps children mature emotionally and morally and also teaches them social skills such as ...
How to Create a Baby Scrapbook
Making a baby scrapbook is a beautiful way to remember your child when he or she was so little. Scrapbooks are more personal, detailed, and ...
Working Mother Advice: How to Manage Your Kids’ After-School Activities
Working mothers often have a double duty. They work a 9-to-5 job (or some other shift); then they get home and have to take care ...
Mother and Daughter Bonding Ideas
You’ve often heard of ‘Mama’s boys’ and ‘Daddy’s girls’ which may lead you to believe it’s not possible for moms to have special relationships with ...
ADHD and Pesticide Exposure
A recent study published in the June online edition of Pediatrics showed that children with higher levels of organophosphate pesticide metabolites in their urine were at ...
Current Criteria for Diagnosing Eating Disorders May Exclude Sickest Patients
A new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital has found that many patients who do not meet full ...
Rethinking ‘‘Generation Me’’
In a scientific analysis of approximately one-half million high-school seniors over three decades, Brent Donnellan and Kali Trzesniewski of the University of Western Ontario argue teens ...
Antidepressants Cut Risk of Hospital Re-admission for Suicidal Youth
Suicidal adolescents who were prescribed an antidepressant medication during inpatient psychiatric hospital treatment were 85 percent less likely than others to be readmitted within a ...
New Research Uncovers How Antidepressants Work
Reserachers at Queensland Brain Insitute in Australia have discovered the class of drugs that increase levels of a neurotransmitter known as ‘norepinephrine’ triggers neurogenesis – ...
How to Control Acne in Your Teen
Teenagers are famously unkind to each other, and having an acne problem is like having a target on your back. Cruel comments and poor ...
What Are Your Kids Doing Right Now?
I am a child of the 50’s when radio, record players and TV were the main sources of media entertainment within the home. I spent ...
