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Help Your Child Learn Empathy
Empathy is the ability to know how others are feeling. It also helps kids understand someone else’s point of view. ...
Heel Pain in Young Athletes: Sever's Disease
Sever’s (calcaneal apophysitis) is irritation of the growing area in the back of the heel. Growth plates are located throughout ...
Healthy or Not? How to Read Labels Like a Dietitian.
Making sure your child has a well-balanced diet can be an ongoing struggle. From snack time to mealtime, it’s a ...
Healing Heat Rash
Your baby usually has smooth, pretty skin, but this evening when you bathed her you noticed tiny, pink bumps on ...
Head Lice: Questions and Answers
After school one day, your daughter brings home a note from the school nurse stating that your child has head ...
Head Lice: An Itchy, but Common, Problem
Lice can be spread from child to child very easily, and they can be hard to get rid of. Here ...
Hand Washing - Your Best Defense
What in the world does that have to do with hand washing you ask? Singing that song takes 15 seconds ...
Hand Washing 101
Washing your hands can help prevent flu, salmonella (bacteria from undercooked/raw food), hepatitis A, colds, food poisoning, rotavirus and mononucleosis ...
Fun and Games for Car Trips
Ah, yes. Typical family car trip chatter. The kind that makes aggravated parents crank up the radio or pop in ...