Ok, it’s pretty much the last drive down the field for the high school home team who needs a touchdown to win and they are within 15 yards of the goal. On the first snap someone comes from nowhere and sideswipes the quarterback – now he’s lying limp on the field without the slightest movement.
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If you thought that you got a lot of parenting advice from people BEFORE the baby was born, just wait and see how many “well wishers” make contact with you after the little one arrives in order to give you the benefit of their extensive experience.
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Last weeks issue [Apr 25, 2014] of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), published by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) was quite disheartening in that it reported a new surge of Measles cases – a disease which was once on the razor’s edge brink of eradication.
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Parenting advice, it comes from everywhere. If you listened to everyone and tried to follow everything you could well be institutionalized within the week.
Relatives are hard to ignore – but may be misinformed or out of date; so-called “free” samples aren’t really free if they come with self-serving advice; and, (more…)
Once you’ve got that bundle of joy in your arms, the next thing you may notice is the nearly overwhelming plethora of people who, knowingly or not, want to give you advice about how you should care for it.
Of course, you expect advice and comment from pretty much everyone related to your addition; but advice probably will seem to come out of everywhere! And, if the internet is to be believed, you’ve most likely already screwed this kid up for good… UNLESS you send in $100 for their elixir or salve or book or blanket or crib or… or, or, or!
Honestly, there are some advice you can respectively listen to but then discard. I’ve written about several… but it took several posts to do it.
4 Posts in "Parenting Advice" Series
- Parenting Adivce to Ignore: Intro/Index – 8 May 2014
There is advice and there is advice. New parents, especially first time parents, find that there are more than enough "experts" willing to offer advice about how you "should" do this and that raising your children. Especially you "generation Z" parents, who routinely trust internet more than people, should be pretty circumspect about who you listen to. Here are some examples of advice, that you may want to take with more than a grain of salt.
- Part 1 - Internet - Crying – 10 May 2014
Parenting advice, it comes from everywhere. If you listened to everyone and tried to follow everything you could well be institutionalized within the week. Pretty much EVERYTHING on the internet comes with an "agenda" which is RARELY (Ok, pretty much never) totally in your best interest. Are you safe to ignore it?
- Part 2 - Babysitter - Saying "no" – 22 May 2014
If you thought that you got a lot of parenting advice from people BEFORE the baby was born, just wait and see how many "well wishers" make contact with you after the little one arrives. This part TWO covers a bit more of advice you can ignore.
- Part 3 - Soft spot - crying – 3 Jun 2014
Parenting advice – something that we all probably need at one time or another; but, something that is awfully easy to get tired of. Here is some more "stuff not to stress about."
If you want more information about parenting, I’ve written several posts you can use the search box to find on this site; AND, there is a whole series of guest posts by Dr. Greg Barrett.
This post will finish our nostalgic wanderings through the “Numbered Diseases of childhood,” which we’ve been undertaking for several weeks. We are finally at SIXTH disease.
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Remember a couple-three weeks ago, when we started this little vintage trek through “the Numbered Diseases of childhood”, I sort of poked fun at the new-fangled-kid doc who sat in the back row and thought that a “pox” was a “rash”?
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We’ll continue our chats about “the Numbered Diseases of childhood” by discussing today FOURTH Disease and the unique circumstances about this number.
You remember from our previous discussions that the physicians in 1905 tried to streamline all the names of the rash-causing diseases by giving them numbers, one through six – oh, for the days!
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This is the fourth of our chats about “the Numbered Diseases of childhood” proposed in 1905 to list all the (then known) diseases which caused rashes and were killing off a sizeable portion of the population each year. Today we’re on ‘ol “Number Three” – Rubella!
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Frankly, the “Numbered Diseases” were just a touch before my time; but, that only means that none of the actual textbooks I used still called them by that name NOT that I haven’t cared for patients with that disease – because I have… lots of ’em!
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In 1905 pediatricians made a valiant attempt to simplify the medical nomenclature by giving the then known six diseases which caused rashes numbers instead of cumbersome, and sometimes embarrassing names. We spoke about the Numbered Diseases of Childhood in a previous article.
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About the last time I can see that anyone in the field of medicine attempted to make things a bit easier on ourselves was in 1905 when pediatricians tried to describe the six then known diseases which cause rashes by giving them numbers.
After all, unlike today, back then physicians weren’t so much the type of people who were (more…)
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