Each year, over 400,000 children undergo a tonsillectomy, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, making it the second most common childhood surgery. Parents typically schedule their child’s surgery during school breaks, including summer and holidays, to accommodate what has traditionally been a long and painful recovery. However, thanks to an advanced approach to tonsil removal, kids can…
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Linking Music To The Heart Of A Child
Music is powerful and persuasive. It touches one’s emotion, motivation, creativity and relaxation. It has the soothing effect that can calm our mental nerves. It inspires you to do something new and productive. It gives you ideas. It lulls you to sleep. The list is definitely endless. Music is many things. It makes us happy, annoyed, melancholic, afraid and mad.…
A Juicy Fun Way To Take Your Vitamins
While kids want great taste, you want to give them the vitamins, minerals and fiber their growing bodies need. Serve watermelon and you can both be happy. Watermelon is a fun, nutritious way to make sure active kids don’t get dehydrated; it’s 92 percent water. A two-cup serving of watermelon is an excellent source of vitamins A, B6 and C,…
Retro Toys Who S Buying Them
The shelves are packed with toys with a cross generational appeal, but which demographic is buying most? As Christmas looms ahead, thoughts move towards the hottest toys this year and parents steel themselves in the annual slog to make sure they get the sought after merchandise. And so do a lot of grown men. The recent trend for retro toys…
Home School Supplies
Today, schooling in your home sweet home is promptly becoming the recent rage in how to give knowledge to your children. Yet homeschooling has been alive since the birth 20th century, it is not until now that it has spread in favor, with greater and greater families selecting to be more in charge of their kids’ education. In the United…
Kids Camping Gear
Planning a camping trip with your family is an ideal way to build a closer family bond, and will help to establish a good relationship between parent and child. With the right equipment and extra planning a family camping trip can become a memorable and enjoyable experience for everyone. When selecting and shopping for camping gear, you should consider purchasing…
What Can You Do About Unwelcome Gang Influence
There are many reasons why younsters–and that includes boys and an increasing number of girls–join gangs. When you see your child falling under this unwelcome gang influence, here are some essential steps: 1) Communicate, communicate, communicate. You cannot over-communicate. Open the door, and make sure it stays open. Be a constant positive force in your child’s life 2) Positive reinforcement.…
Choose A Daycare With Care
When my wife and I began having kids it was impossible for one of us to quit work to stay home with them. We had always hoped to be in a position financially where one of us could support the family while the other one did the important job of raising our children for the first few years of their…
Healthier Parenting 5 Ways Parents Can Help Children Lead Healthy Lives
Believe it or not, you impart a legacy of health to your children that goes well beyond the genes you give them. You also pass along health beliefs and model health-related choices. Here are 5 tips that will set your kids up on a path towards a healthy life. 1. Instill a sense of wonder about the body. Many adults…
Mountain Bike Tours
Mountain biking can be a great way to spend a vacation. Mountain bike tours are offered in many locations and can be geared from the novice to the experienced. A mountain bike tour can be the destination of a vacation or even an addition to other excursions during a vacation. Families can even enjoy taking a mountain bike tour, as…