As we prepare for a session on child development and behavior at Homefront: Family Preservation Center, a center for temporary emergency housing in Mercer County, New Jersey, we realize that we haven’t shared with…
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Today, we welcome Health Coach Mary McDonald’s insight on how to read food labels for nutritional content… Have you ever stood in the cereal aisle staring at the rows and rows of choices…
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Who knew when we first published this post in June 2014 that another measles outbreak would occur in the US. In light of the numerous measles cases that emerged out of the…
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I wash my hands about sixty times a day, maybe more. This frequent washing, in combination with cold Pennsylvania air, leads to chapped hands. Here are the hands of a patient. Do your children’s hands…
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Should I vaccinate my child? Yes, yes, yes! The recent measles outbreak originating in Disneyland among mostly-unvaccinated children and adults highlights how important it is to continue to immunize children against preventable…
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How often should your child take a bath? What’s wrong with bubble bath? And how about the teens? Come find out as Kelley interviews us in Happy Healthy Kids. …
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“You just can’t understand worry until you have a child of your own.” Welcome to cold and flu season. Now that flu and many other illnesses are circulating, we want to help…
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Now that we are in the middle of the 2015 flu season, we have parents asking us every day how they can tell if their child has the flu or just a…
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So many children (and their parents) have colds now. Are you staring at the medicine display in the pharmacy, wondering which of the many cold medicines on the shelf will best help…
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Resolved to eat more vegetables this year? Our pediatrician gardener Dr. Marion Mass shares with us the benefits of kale and how to prepare it so your kids will eat it. Open one…