Positive Food Messages – A Minute For Kids
As parents often times weight loss is a large focus when developing eating habits. When dieting it's extremely important to remain positive with food messages around your children. Too often food comes to represent the enemy to dieters. Young children pay close attention and interpret the messages their parents send about eating, healthy or unhealthy. A Minute for Kids: Positive Food Messages from Healthy Children on
Over the counter cough, cold and fever reducer medications
Before you give your child over the counter cough, cold or fever reducer medication, please read. Every year over 70,000 Emergency Room visits are a result of accidental overdoses of medications in children. Protect your children and keep all medications up high, out of a child’s reach and under lock and key. Many accidental overdoses occur when parents leave medication out on the counter for convenience when a child is sick, so remember to put medication ...
Vaccine Schedules – The View
I had so much fun chatting with the ladies at the view today about the importance of protecting children by keeping them on schedule with vaccines.
Preparing To Head Back To School
My segment on KTLA got me thinking about back to school. This year both of my kids start school after Labor Day, but I know that many of my patients start sooner. No matter when your children go back to school, it’s time to start thinking about back packs, school supplies, sneakers and …a back to school health check. Here are a few questions parents have recently asked me about sending their child back to ...
Family dinner frenzy – Web MD
Having a family dinner is one of the most important household routines. This is especially true when children head back to school and the days get busier and literally shorter. Benefits of a regular family meal are well documented—school success, healthier weight, improved social skills, fewer behavioral problems, and closer families. But, with long work hours and hectic schedules, patients tell me that they just can't find time to share a meal. I hear you. Read ...
Tdap requirement for 7th to 12th graders
Many parents have been asking about the new Tdap shot required for school. TdaP (Tetanus, Diphtheria and Pertussis vaccine) is currently being called the Whooping Cough vaccine, but it also protects against Tetanus and Diptheria. Because whooping cough is on the rise, especially here in California, the Tdap vaccine is required for students entering 7th to 12th grade. Tdap protects against whooping cough (aka Pertussis), a very contagious disease that causes violent coughing and trouble breathing. Whooping ...
