The physical stages of “Puberty” for boys as explained by the “Tanner Stages” one through five: it’s characteristics and issues.
Continuing from the previous article we’ll conclude today with a fairly comprehensive listing of new recommendations. Apparently, more benefits than previously realized; and, frankly, a bit startling.
October 15th celebrated Global Handwashing Day – Sorry I missed it with this post, but better late than nothing at all. I’ve actually posted about the topic before, under the title “Stupid Things Fathers Do” where I described a first hand observation of a “parenting moment.”
Conservatively, health experts believe that simple hand washing could actually prevent 600,000 children’s DEATHS each year! That’s like preventing SIX airplane crashes full of 250 children under 5 each – EVERY DAY! Merely by hand washing!
[Two grandmothers are at odds over their grandsons tonsillitis and possible tonsilectomy.] (more…)
[A mother researched the internet to find information that led her to refuse an adenoidectomy when her son had “tubes” in his eardrums due to chronic infections. Now other doctors are recommending the same thing and asks for yet another “opinion” about what she should do. She also claims she’s worried about the hospital being […]
Traveling the world isn’t as easy now as it once was! The multiple infectious disease are much more complicated, travel immunizations are plentiful but for sporadic diseases and world “health departments” are all too frequently absorbed with other crises or absent all together. There is a place one can go, however, to find the very […]
[Google has stopped showing this video – which makes me sorry, Im not sure where to send you to actually see a live case of ChickenPox anymore.] Here is an entertaining (if you’re a 6 year old) animated video involving Arthur Arthur and his somewhat obnoxious sister who have to deal with Chickenpox – or […]