A shout out to Trinity Day School in Solebury, PA where we spoke with a group of parents yesterday about the pearls and pitfalls of potty training. Today we share some of what…
Babies
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While “drinks from a cup” is often listed as a developmental milestone for one-year-olds, it is a good idea to start teaching this skill BEFORE your child’s first birthday. Go ahead and…
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Got a baby starting on finger foods? Good news: You don’t have to go broke over buying toddler Puffs®. Babies and young toddlers don’t have a lot of teeth. In fact, a full…
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We interrupt your summer to bring you a Flu vaccine reminder and update. Although flu (influenza) may be far from your minds, as we enter hot July, pediatricians are already ordering flu…
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This very dusty binkie emerged from my daughter’s room just in time for her 16 th birthday. Yes, it’s a 16 year old binkie. Seeing the pacifier was like greeting an old…
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It’s not your imagination: baby and toddler nails are funky and warped. Now add the fact that babies and toddlers wiggle and squirm, and taking care of your young child’s nails will appear to be…
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We see this a couple times a year… an earring which looks fine when viewed from the front… …is actually embedded when viewed from the back. When you flip up this child’s ear lobe, you…
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This Mother’s Day, we honor Dr. Kardos’s mom, who passed earlier this year. Dr. Kardos and I had been planning a post on nasal congestion in kids, but because we couldn’t have…
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I was greatly relieved recently when my teen arrived back from a music department trip to Disney without a sunburn. I had pictured a bright red cherry tomato coming off the plane.…
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Squeezed through the birth canal, many babies are born with pointy, cone-shaped heads. Others, delivered by caesarian section, start off life with round heads. Few babies begin with a flat head. But as…