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7 steps to get back to school smoothly

It’s the time of year that provokes a myriad of emotions in parents and children – from excitement and gleeful ...

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Back to School, back to sleep! 10 tips to finding your sleep routine

“The road to academic success is paved with sleep,” according to Dr. James Kemp, the director of our sleep center ...

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Parenting through the pain – Sometimes a little “ouch” is a good thing

Recently I was at the pool watching some adorable, little kids going down the slide. Some looked like seasoned pros ...

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Is there such thing as a “healthy tan?”

*Thanks to guest bloggers Drs. Sarah Garwood and Kavya Reddy, on special assignment to www.childrensmomdocs.org. “Mom, it’s just a sunburn ...

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Diarrhea Disaster: Managing a Menace

“Seriously!” goes through my head. “Not today, please not today.” Even reading the word makes most of us cringe. There ...

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10 tricks for the family road trip – have a lampoon-free vacation

True confession: the night before we left for our national park road trip my husband and I seriously considered cancelling ...

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A parent’s guide to sibling rivalry

When I was a school-aged girl, my Cabbage Patch Kids were my most prized possession. One night, I could not ...

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Three tricks to turn your kids into rule-followers!

“Because I told you so” never seemed like a very satisfactory answer to me as a kid. In fact, it ...

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Are you getting enough iodine?

I’ve been throwing down prenatal vitamins every morning for more than a decade, so I was shocked to realize that ...