On a fishing trip, I let the oldest take the wheel, turned off the radio (exercised my veto power) and enjoyed the silence – for about 47 seconds till they both went into withdrawal pains and suggested that the least I could do was read to them.
Part 1 of a discussion about JODM (Juvenile Onset Diabetes Mellitus, Now known as Type 1 Diabetes), beginning with the original disease, it’s impact and discovery of Insulin; and leading to the development of a “new” type of drug.
A child’s growth and development always interests a pediatrician. I ran across an effort by a parent to document his child’s trip into adulthood with something more than the obligatory photo in a bathtub or school photos. It’s an interesting journey into maturity which they will probably both watch many times and a valuable way to document what it took to get where they are now. No wonder teens eat so much and need so much sleep.
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 […]
Here is a link to an article on another web site which discusses the “lying issue” some children have, particularly those with ADHD. As previous articles have shown, lying is a part of nearly every child’s life-copeing mechanism but a bit more problematic in children with attention deficit. Here is a fairly professionalized web page, […]
