These are the posts of a colleague, Greg Barrett, whose blog has been abandoned and which I am concerned will be lost if they are not posted somewhere. I have needed to add back headings and photos, and I have followed the advice of my spell-checker on occasion; but, in all other ways they are his posts as they appeared on his blog. Excepting that in two I have updated them to reflect new research results and recommendations, carefully notating when I’ve done so.
Here are the second five (of the ten) travel diseases I’m discussing. Things that you might want to take into consideration, especially when you’re crossing borders. Cholera, Bird Flu, TB, Malaria and Yellow Fever.
Despite the provocative title, this talk is really about safety and parenting approaches. That said Mr. Tulley does have an “every mans” approach to the stifling “avoid risk of any sort” some parents are coming to take with their children. He also does have a sense of humor and is definitely not a “helicopter parent.”
[An international reader of the blog whose “licensed doctor for the young/kids” diagnoses “tonsillitis” and “Typhoid fever” frequently making him confused.] (more…)
[Head Injury in a two year old, follow-up testing and behavior changes.] (more…)
It still seems early to be saying “Merry Christmas” but all the department stores have been trying to sell me another tinsel Christmas tree since before Halloween. I just thought that I’d make mention that the popular “Santa Tracker” website from Google is back open again for another year with information and games to keep […]
A link to a follow-up blog post by Hayley Kaplan. This time giving advice for parents about their children sexting on their phones and computers. [http://what-is-privacy.com/2012/03/what-parents-must-know-about-sexting/]