Pregnancy and H1N1 Vaccine
So you’re pregnant, and you don’t want to get flu, but you also want to know that whatever goes into your body isn’t going to hurt your baby. Here’s info on H1N1 and the vaccine to help you make the...
View ArticleBabies, Kids, and H1N1
Delivery/Post-Partum and H1N1 – what do I do? Breastfeeding may help protect newborns against influenza, but mom’s good handwashing habits before and after breastfeeding are just as important. If you...
View ArticleSchool Lunches: What Can YOU Do?
On the ladder of cuisine jokes, school cafeteria food is probably the biggest target around, edging out horrifying airline meals and bland hospital fare. Apologies if your child’s school has a good...
View ArticleTeens Score High On Tests and Sex!
We were scanning headlines the other day and ran across this one on Time.com: Teen Sex Not Always Bad For Grades. What a relief! As parents, this is what concerns us about our teens having sex....
View ArticleTelling the School About Your Child’s Infection
[Ed. note: One of our parents hired an attorney to write a letter to the preschool her daughter will be attending. She chose to inform the school of her daughter’s illness, but wanted to do so in a way...
View ArticleGerms (and kids) Go Back To School!
Kids are headed back to school, and all their germs are going with them. This means that germ-swapping is about to take place. Are you ready? Is your child? Share these three concepts with your kids...
View ArticleSchool’s Here!
School is here. So, new clothes, cell phone, new haircut, make-up, sweet-smelling body spray . . . what else could you possibly need? Sports physicals―Want to play a sport this year? Gotta get a...
View ArticleHere Come the Germs!
I love my kids. I do. But, may I just say, entre nous, that my heartbeat slows and I’m immersed in a narcotic sense of freedom when they toddle off to school each September. That euphoric bliss lasts...
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