August 5th, 2008
A new study showed that restaurants’s kids meals are unhealthy, and loaded with calories. Blame it on those chicken nuggets, mac n’ cheese and fries.
And what do you know, Dunkin Donut is jumping on the bandwagon of fastfood chains adding healthier choices in their menu. Customers can have two new choices for under 300 […]
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August 4th, 2008
He used to smell like baby powder, your little boy. These days, he passes you by the hallway and “eew!” he smells like sweat, week-old socks and something quite foreign. Looking closer at your young man, you even notice - gasp(!) -stubble on his once-smooth face. Get a clue - he is entering the adolescent […]
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August 3rd, 2008
When my son first started sucking his thumb at one month of age, my first response was to stop the habit cold. I wasn’t too thrilled about thumb sucking, as my firstborn didn’t have the same habit. Besides I got plenty of unsolicited advice about thumb sucking as a bad habit. My efforts to remove […]
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August 3rd, 2008
World Breastfeeding Week is from August 1-7, and I thought it’s an good time for a Kitchen Table talk (or round-table if you wish) about your experiences with breastfeeding.
As an incentive I will be giving away a $20 gift card to Amazon to a winner randomly chosen. But first, let’s chat. Here are some questions […]
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August 3rd, 2008
Finally my infant son is starting at eat solids! My breasts can rest. Well, only a little, really.
But I’m excited to feed him and determined to give him a well-balanced diet at an early age. If I may compare him to his older sister, she is such a slow and picky eater that her […]
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August 2nd, 2008
Children do best when interaction is part of learning. When you’re trying to teach a child about the importance of nutrition and fitness, it helps to illustrate “what happens if-” and have kid experience the payoff of keeping healthy.
The David Beckham Academy has come up with a cool electronic handheld soccer game - […]
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July 30th, 2008
This week is the quarterly massive Bloggy Give-away Carnival, and blogs everywhere are participating, so you’re right in time for winning something.
So thanks to everyone who joined the Kids Health Notes give-away for Scholastic books for children! Here are the nine winners, randomly chosen.
117 susan p How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon
77 Tammy The […]
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July 27th, 2008
Summers mean theme parks, state fairs, carnivals, and FOOD.
But before you order your child that tempting plate of funnel cake, the gigantic onion blossom, or snow cones, STOP YOURSELF.
Here are ten of the unhealthiest foods you can find at the fair:
APPETIZERS: Chicken nuggets. Almost every child loves chicken nuggets, whether at […]
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July 26th, 2008
Sometime between ages 10 and 15, your cute little boy will become a young man. In one quick summer, you will hardly know this awkward young man goes around your house carrying a razor, with a voice that fluctuates between squeaks and baritone and an odor that suddenly smells suspicious.
If you say YES to […]
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July 26th, 2008
The new craze for today’s tweens? Half sleep-overs. It’s fun, it’s crazy and and best of all, it’s parent-approved!
Half-sleepovers are just the cool kind of pajama parties where parents drop off their girls, in pajamas, and then pick them in time for bed. It’s more like pretend sleep-overs, but girls still have fun like […]
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