Does Your Toddler Bite and How Do You Handle It?

Yup. Here’s a question for you guys. Do you ever get complaints from parents about your preschooler biting their kids? Has your child ever left a tooth mark on you? Were you excluded from daycare of preschool because of that?
I really wonder, because I’ve recently bumped into this article on Parenting.com that addressed the issue [...]

Help Your Kid Handle Motion Sickness

Kinetosis, or, in simpler words – motion sickness or travel sickness – is basically a disagreement between your sense of movement (detected by the vestibular system) and the perception of movement. Kids are prone to motion sickness a lot more often and it usually passes with time, but some of us who are less lucky, [...]

Meat or No Meat: That Is The Question

I’m aware of the consequences this statement may provoke with vegetarian or vegan parents, but I’ll give it a try: Without meat children are damaged, and denying them meat is unethical. Correction: this is what a leading US nutritionist says, and well, last time I checked, if you’re a leading anything on a national scale [...]

Product Recall: Ring Slings by Sprout Stuff

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced a recall of ring slings produced by a Texas based company Sprout Stuff. The recall was announced to the public following a death of a 10-day-old infant that died through suffocation back in 2007.
The sling recall is yet another one in the series of massive sling recalls [...]

Imaginary Friends: Should You Really Be Concerned?

It’s not uncommon to hear a freaked out mom asking for advice about an imaginary friend or even multiple imaginary friends a child may have. Some are always there, others will pay an occasional visit, some are human, others are pets or very original creatures. You might have to set the table so that the [...]

Do Siblings Keep Depression At Bay?

As someone who grew up with a much older brother, I always wondered what it might feel like to have a sister. The examples I had right in front of me weren’t too great, as my friends’ older or younger sisters always seemed to be causing them trouble or at least some sort of inconvenience, [...]

Personality Traits in Kids Predict Adult Behavior

The results of the research conducted by the University of California and the University of Oregon (which included comparing test results on 4 personality attributes) recorded in the 1960s with data retrieved 40 years later, say that personality traits manifested at a young age predict adult behavior.
Using data from a 1960s study of approximately 2,400 [...]

Will Corndog Stay on TV?

Not just corndog though. Any product or type of food that is advertised to us as “good-for-you” stuff. Here’s an article in the New York Times that gives you a pretty clear idea about who’s boss and who decides how things are going to be.
When Congress ordered federal agencies to come up with rigid recommendations [...]

High Stress for the Parents of an Autistic Child

The news came from Irving, Texas. A 30-year-old mother of 2 strangled her children with a wire claiming she “didn’t want her kids to be like that”  and “wanted normal kids”. The CNN article is called “High Stress for Parents Who are Raising Autistic Children”. I recommend reading it.
When you get pregnant and think of [...]

Are Contact Lenses Safe for Children?

Corneal abrasions, ulcerations, conjunctivitis… Contact lenses account for 40% of all medical device associated injuries according to the Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
These tiny translucent bits of wonder that help us see (I wear contact lenses, too) can also be an obvious pain in the neck (or shall I say – eye?). [...]

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