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Adolescent, caregiving, Childcare, Healthy home, Medication safety, Otc medication safety, Otc medicine safety, Parenting, Parenting teens, Prescrption drugs
Wondering How to Safely Dispose of Old Prescription Medicines?
Read More: Wondering How to Safely Dispose of Old Prescription Medicines?April 22 is National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. Not sure what to do with all the medicine cluttering up your medicine cabinet? Old painkillers. Expired antibiotics. Piles of prescriptions or over-the-counter medicines you never finished for one reason or another. You know you have to keep them out of the hands of other people,…
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Eccema y los niños: Qué pueden hacer los padres para mantener saludables a sus hijos
Read More: Eccema y los niños: Qué pueden hacer los padres para mantener saludables a sus hijosCuando la hija de Laura Fellows tenía apenas 2 meses, esta madre primeriza notó unas manchas ásperas, rojas y resecas en la piel de sus mejillas y atrás de sus rodillas. La piel parecía inflamada y la comezón de su hija no paraba. Afortunadamente, ya tenía agendada una consulta médica mensual para su recién nacida.…
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Adolescent, caregiving, Childcare, Healthy home, Medication safety, Otc medication safety, Otc medicine safety, Parenting, Parenting teens, Prescrption drugs
Clean Out Your Medicine Cabinet for National Prescription Drug Takeback Day
Read More: Clean Out Your Medicine Cabinet for National Prescription Drug Takeback DayApril 30 is National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. Not sure what to do with all the medicine cluttering up your medicine cabinet? Old painkillers. Expired antibiotics. Piles of prescriptions or over-the-counter medicines you never finished for one reason or another. You know you have to keep them out of the hands of other people,…
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Childcare, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Crohn’s, Crohn’s disease, Digestive disorders, Ibd, Inflammatory bowel disease, Parenting, Real women real stories
It Feels Surreal When Covid Hits — but It’s Very Real
Read More: It Feels Surreal When Covid Hits — but It’s Very RealLast New Year’s Eve, I walked into my parent’s house after running errands and heard news I’ll never forget. My mom stood by the Christmas tree, tears flowing down her cheeks. “He’s positive. Dad just tested positive for Covid.” It felt surreal. It couldn’t be. My family of five had just spent two days hanging…
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Children With Disabilities Face Special Back-to-School Challenges
Read More: Children With Disabilities Face Special Back-to-School ChallengesBy Heidi de Marco, Kaiser Health News LOS ANGELES — Christopher Manzo, a boy with curly brown hair and bright-blue-and-yellow glasses, has lived a third of his five years at home because of the pandemic. And he is more than ready for kindergarten. Hand in hand with his mother, Martha Manzo, he walks into the…
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Adolescent, Anxiety, caregiving, Childcare, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Healthy home, mental health, Midlife parenting, Parenting, Parenting teens, Stress
5 Tips From a Play Therapist to Help Kids Express Themselves and Unwind
Read More: 5 Tips From a Play Therapist to Help Kids Express Themselves and UnwindBy Jessie D. Guest, University of South Carolina As many children go back to school after 18 months of global pandemic, social isolation and on-and-off remote learning, they too are feeling the additional stress and uncertainty of these times. Children need play to decompress and communicate in ways that are meaningful to them. Play is…
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Budget, Career, caregiving, Childcare, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Gender, Gender diversity, Lgbtq, Parenting, Transgender, Work
Trans Moms Discuss Their Unique Parenting Challenges During the Pandemic – and What They Worry About When Things Go Back to ‘Normal’
Read More: Trans Moms Discuss Their Unique Parenting Challenges During the Pandemic – and What They Worry About When Things Go Back to ‘Normal’By Derek P. Siegel, University of Massachusetts Amherst Between 25% and 50% of transgender adults in the U.S. have children. Some have kids before coming out as trans, others adopt or foster, and some use egg or sperm cells they’ve frozen – usually before starting hormone replacement therapy. As a sociologist who studies inequality and…
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Roe v. Wade Gave American Women a Choice About Having Children – Here’s How That Changed Their Lives
Read More: Roe v. Wade Gave American Women a Choice About Having Children – Here’s How That Changed Their LivesBy Constance Shehan, University of Florida The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case challenging a Mississippi state law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, much earlier than the 24-week threshold generally established by the pivotal abortion rights case Roe v. Wade in 1973. Roe v. Wade granted women the right to…
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Anxiety, Breastfeeding, Childcare, Delivery, Infant, Labor, mental health, Midlife pregnancy, Newborn, Parenting, Postpartum, Pregnancy, Pregnancy & parenting, Stress, Toddler
Pregnant Women’s Brains Show Troubling Signs of Stress – but Feeling Strong Social Support Can Break Those Patterns
Read More: Pregnant Women’s Brains Show Troubling Signs of Stress – but Feeling Strong Social Support Can Break Those PatternsBy Rebecca Brooker, Texas A&M University and Tristin Nyman, Texas A&M University Even before the pandemic, there was plenty for expectant mothers to worry about. Pregnant women must withstand a barrage of arguably well-intentioned, but often hyperbolic, warnings about their health and what’s to come, including concerns about everything from what to eat, to what…
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Adolescent, Anxiety, caregiving, Childcare, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Healthy home, mental health, Parenting, Parenting teens, Stress
Here’s How to Help Your Kids Break out of Their Pandemic Bubble and Transition Back to Being With Others
Read More: Here’s How to Help Your Kids Break out of Their Pandemic Bubble and Transition Back to Being With OthersBy Dominique A. Phillips, University of Miami and Jill Ehrenreich-May, University of Miami Pilar’s parents took all the recommended precautions to shield her from the dangers of COVID-19. They stayed at home, away from family, friends and group activities. Pilar had remained in virtual schooling throughout the pandemic as a first and then second grader.…
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Covid-19 Means a Lot More Work for Families of Children With Disabilities, but Schools Can Help
Read More: Covid-19 Means a Lot More Work for Families of Children With Disabilities, but Schools Can HelpBy Sandra M. Chafouleas, University of Connecticut and Emily A. Iovino, University of Connecticut Children don’t come with how-to manuals. Even if they did, they would all require a manual of their own, tailored to their unique make and model. That’s why caregiving can be rewarding, as well as puzzling and demanding – particularly for…
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Poor and Minority Children With Food Allergies Overlooked and in Danger
Read More: Poor and Minority Children With Food Allergies Overlooked and in DangerBy Sandy West, Kaiser Health News As Emily Brown stood in a food pantry looking at her options, she felt alone. Up to that point, she had never struggled financially. But there she was, desperate to find safe food for her young daughter with food allergies. What she found was a jar of salsa and…
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Helicopter Parenting Is Hurting Our Kids
Read More: Helicopter Parenting Is Hurting Our KidsLast summer, Alex Silverman’s 16-year-old son Julian went off with a couple of camp friends to travel around Europe — without his parents. “Julian could be the most prepared 16-year-old I know,” said Alex, a native New Yorker. I’ll have to agree with Alex. Julian sounds incredibly independent for a young person, especially in these…
