Family & Parenting
Shopping with the kids : When bringing a child to shop with you, preparation is key. Children can make a trip easier or more difficult depending on their behavior. If you take the right steps, you can push a child’s behavior during the shopping trip in the right direction.
What to Do if Your Child Won’t Take Medicines : As a pediatrician and a mom raising five kids, I’ve had plenty of experience giving medications to children. Most children take their medicines. Some children may need cajoling or snuggling, or a dose of sternness or rewards (read: bribes). But the stuff usually gets where it needs to be.
6 Tips For Helping a Child Through Separation : When a marriage or relationship breaks down, it’s often a very difficult time for everyone involved. Not only do you have to manage relationships and work with your partner to sort out assets and divide things equitably, there’s all too often children involved.
Fun Fitness Ideas To Do With Aging Parents: If you are a woman in her 40s, 50s, or 60s, chances are you’re caring for (or know someone who is) an aging parent. Over 40 million family caregivers in the U.S. provide support and care for loved ones, from driving parents to and from appointments, to helping with prescription refills, health insurance […]
Travelling With an Infant? Travelling by yourself is quite a feat. Flight delays may happen. You may get lost. You may lose money. But there is something far more difficult than that—travelling with an infant. Aside from the fact that you will have to deal with crowded airports, language barrier and many more, you also have to find ways to make […]
5 Best Exercises to Do with Your Dog : You have a new training partner now, don’t you? So with that in mind, here are the 5 best exercises to do with your dog. You have a new training partner now, don’t you? So with that in mind, here are the 5 best exercises to do with your dog.
Symptoms To Look For After A Fall Of Elderly Relative : Unfortunately, one of the more common events in the lives of the elderly is a fall. Falling is considered a non-event for most young people,
Struggle in Parenting Modern Teens : If you are raising teens, chances are you are trying your best to relate to their antics. They are a millennial generation or Generation Y.
5 Health and Fitness Reminders to Watch Out for at Back to School : The rush of Back to School season is almost a tangible excitement – kids are pumped for a new year and ready to see all of their friends again, and parents are eager to breathe a sigh of relief knowing the chaos of summer is coming to […]
Back to School Fitness Tips for Moms : For Moms across the U.S., Back to School season has officially begun. If you haven’t already gone shopping for school supplies and new clothes, chances are you will be soon, and then it’s all mayhem from there.
Ways to Support Your Parents When They Get Older : The most important part of a person’s life is his or her family and parents. They are the ones who sacrificed all their luxury and dreams to give us a better life. They always want to give us a better life than they ever had.
Healthy Food Choices for Pregnant Women : Pregnant women must keep good care of their diet and must restrict their food choices to healthy options only. There are numerous food items that are highly likely to negatively affect them and their child hence they must stick to a healthy diet for the sake of their child’s well-being.
Breastfeeding may lower heart risk : Researchers and doctors have long touted the short- and long-term health benefits of breastfeeding, but research published Wednesday shows it also may reduce a woman’s risk of having a heart attack or stroke later in life.
6 Ways to Motivate Kids to Be Active : Did you know that only one in three children is physically active every day? It’s really a shame because a regular physical activity is very important for children’s physical and mental health and development. As an adult, you can influence and teach kids to be active, and here are just some […]
Opioid misuse during pregnancy : Research is essential to determining how best to screen pregnant women for opioid use disorder, to treat pregnant women who have the disorder, and to care for infants as they experience withdrawal symptoms, according to experts convened for a National Institutes of Health workshop in April 2016. A summary of the workshop, co-sponsored by NIH’s Eunice […]
