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Winter brings cold and flu season. Many parents want to know if it's helpful to their child's health to have a humidifier in their child's bedroom. To find out, we talked with pediatrician and "Baby 411" author Dr. Ari Brown. She'll tell us the di...
There are a number of different ways that parents can empower children, and I think one of the simplest ways is that parents need to realize that children need to make their own decision very often. And so whenever appropriate allow the child to m...
The New Child Obesity Test Male: A lot of other kids may have the opposite prime. Male: Right. Male: Which is they're shooting off the growth curve becoming too big for their age. Male: Exactly right and that’s where you know a lot of docs will pl...
Audra: Our next guest, she makes a not so happy subject, a little more light hearted. You know parents dread that moment when you get that note from the school nurse says that there’s a lice outbreak at school. What do you do? A lot of parents ten...
A Guide to Developmental Feeding Up to now we’ve talked about the physical exam, we’ve talked mostly about physical aspects and development, hearing, vision etcetera. One major, major aspect of health care of a child that’s extremely important to ...
Image Source: Healthy Body Project BY LUKE LEONARD ANCHOR ANA COMPAIN-ROMERO America’s youth are becoming less and less healthy. A new study shows that type 2 diabetes has become a serious risk for the youth of America. KOVR say s it’s a nati...
The Importance of Physical Education Audra Lowe: It seems like every single year, schools are having a cut more and more from their budgets and that obviously means cuts in some of the physical education programs that we took for granted as kids. ...
Dr. Sears' Back-to-School Health Tips If your child wears a house gear around his neck, make sure he puts it inside his shirt. Keys are a sure fire sign of predators that your child is going home alone. At about age 10, kids are developing already...
How Child Growth Charts Work Dr. Sears: Well, let me explain to you how those growth charts work, all right. So when the doctors office, each time you’re in the doctor will plot out the height and weight but what are all those curves and graphs. I...