NOTEWORTHY WEDNESDAY! Do you believe that your kids/teens do not drink or use drugs only other kids do? My kids are older now but at times when they were in High School and even Jr. High this thought went through my head. I kind of believed that they were drinking but substance abuse… I [...]
Archive for September, 2011
“Other teens drink and use marijuana but my kids don’t,” do you say this?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Children's Health (magazine), Michigan, Monitoring the Future, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Partnership for a Drug-Free America, Substance abuse, teen drinking, University of Michigan, University of Michigan Health System on September 28, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Breast Milk Sharing….
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Phd in parenting on September 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Breast Milk Sharing I am all about passing on good solid information. So, I would urge any one interested in breast milk sharing to link to this post at www.phdinparenting.com. World Milksharing Week Human Milk 4 Human Babies (HM4HB) is a global milksharing network, a virtual village, comprising thousands of people from over fifty countries. [...]
9/11…10 Years Later…Lessons Learned
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Child, Family, Grief Loss and Bereavement, Health, Mental Health, New York City, Parent, September 11 attacks, World Trade Center on September 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
NOTEWORTHY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY! This past Sunday was the 10th anniversary of 9/11. The horror of 9/11 will remain. This year the surviving families, children and spouses showed us all how life goes on and how they have managed to remember and honor their loved ones who perished on 9/11. The surviving children that honored their [...]
Children and Carseats-The 5-Step Test
Posted in Car Seat Safety, Uncategorized, tagged Car seat, Child, children, Home and Family, Infant, Infant car seat, Seat belt on September 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Carseat safety is really a no -brainer…carseats for infants and children are mandatory and they save lives. For the newborn, infant, toddler and pre-schooler it seems fairly simple to buy a carseat and have it installed or install it yourself. But as your child gets older things start to become somewhat muddy…like when do [...]
Pediatricians refuse unvaccinated kids
Posted in Childhood vaccines, X-rays and Children, tagged Child, Disease, Health, Infant, Pediatric, Pertussis, Vaccination, Vaccine on September 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today I heard a disturbing piece of news regarding children and vaccinations. Apparently, an infant who was not old enough to receive the pertussis vaccine was exposed to pertussis in a pediatrician’s office. This baby wound up extremely sick and hospitalized due to his exposure to pertussis, a potentially fatal, contagious disease. This situation poses [...]
