With all deference to teachers, I am becoming more impressed that children do most of their learning when not actively being “taught”. At least in things that “count.” The aspects of life, which are critically important to a child’s personality, are his attitudes, about: self, others, systems, things, and life in general. Most parents know […]
Generally speaking, our primary responsibilities in the care of our children consist of simply feeding, clothing, and driving them places. But there will be times when they need much more from us.
In this series, we’ve talked about the Obesity epidemic from various viewpoints. First, there was a great new research article describing a “smoking gun” of obesity: fast food. Then there was a great list for teens who’d like to kick obesity. Now a great way of losing weight – if only some of us still had the ability. This method not only fights obesity but works on fitness as well.
The “Obesity Series” contains several instructive and entertaining posts about this highly important topic. Check out the other posts listed in the box below – they will “do a body good.”
In fact there’s a lot of things you can’t MAKE a kid do—well you could, but not without damaging something. Things like eating, sleeping and going potty are the “trifecta” of parenting problems a pediatrician is sought out for to provide counseling and hopefully an answer. A pediatrician on the east coast calls himself “A […]
[Page is no longer served – don’t know what’s up with the CDC and changing URL addresses, they should know better.] Bugs in Food – not a good thought. If you were in my office, and I needed to talk to your child about keeping food clean from bad bugs, this is what you would […]
