Toddler Health
Is your child developing the same way as his or her peers (play friends)?
A good friend, a first time mom, raised an interesting point. Parents, when comparing children, often see one child being able to do something that their own child (of a similar age) cannot do. This natural method of comparison s...
How can I get my 16 month old daughter to eat meat and veggies?
Q How can I get my 16 month old daughter to eat meat and veggies? She LOVES pasta of any kind. But WILL not eat meat. She will eat seafood and steak, but not chicken, pork chops, hamburger, cube steak. Once in a while she will eat...
Q&A: What are the Signs of Iron Deficiency in Toddlers?
Q What are the signs of a toddler being iron deficient? I told my sister that my 19 month old daughter had a bunch of little bruises on her legs and she gets sick alot. She suggested that it might be iron deficiency since she doe...
Q&A: My son hates brushing his teeth
Q My son is 22 months old. Lately he won't brush his teeth. I can do it for him but he puts up an awlful fight, and then I hate to do it. What do you suggest? A I would try to let him take a turn and then you need to take a turn...
Q&A: Why is my 1 1/2 year old touching herself?
Q My 1 1/2 year old daughter recently started touching herself and straddling her legs on me and bouncing up and down. My husband and I have never had sex in front of her, but I have suspicions that my brother may have touched h...
Helping Your Teen Deal With Grief
Recently, a close friend died very unexpectedly. Linda was in good health, a very vivacious woman: full of life. In one fell-swoop she went to the hospital with chest pains and within a week she was dead. She was found to have a...
My Seven Year Old Won't Eat!
I can still remember when my son, now 7 years old, was about 1 1/2 years old. Every night at dinner time, he would not eat nothing unless it was either yogurt, cottage cheese, or any other milk product snack. He would even fall ...
School's in session -- and so are lice!
It seems like school and lice go hand in hand. My own children have been back at school for only a very short time, and there has already been a couple outbreaks of lice. I am thankful that my children have never had lice, but I...
Symptoms of Depression in Children
Persistent sadness and/or irritability. Low self-esteem or feelings or worthlessness. A child may make such statements as, "I'm bad. I'm stupid. No one likes me."Loss of interest in previously enjoyed activities. Change in appe...
Children and Depression
Introduction A few years ago, my mother unearthed some pictures of me as a baby which I had never seen before. One showed me at about eight months old, crawling on the grass of Golden Gate Park. I was looking directly at the c...