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Things to consider when choosing a pediatrician 6296

Things to consider when choosing a pediatrician

There is nothing compared to the joy that children bring to the parents. As parents we always want the best for our children, and one aspect of child care is choosing a good pediatrician for them. We don’t... keep reading →
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Healthy Lunches for Preschoolers 8498

Healthy Lunches for Preschoolers

Many preschoolers bring a packed lunch to school. Most parents want to pack a healthy lunch their child will eat, but don’t always know what constitutes healthy eating for a four year old. At the beginning of a new school year, I send home a... keep reading →
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Children's Health Resource HubMob 6491

Children's Health Resource HubMob

Last week, our HubMobsters converged to write about Children's Education. This week, we're staying with the kids and focusing on Childrens Health. Come and check out this HubMob Resource for some great information about keeping kids healthy. keep reading →
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How Is Your Child Deaf? What If He or She has Glue Ear? A Best Guide 8292

How Is Your Child Deaf? What If He or She has Glue Ear? A Best Guide

Think your child is deaf? How would you know? Perhaps he or she has glue ear? This article is the best guide to explaining what, how and why your child shows signs of temporary deafness and what can be done about it. keep reading →
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Children's Eye Health 7494

Children's Eye Health

Making sure your child has an eye examination at regular intervals is vital. Problems with seeing may affect your child’s self-confidence and prevent him from participating fully in sports and games. Uncorrected poor vision will almost inevitably... keep reading →
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Teen Suicides On The Rise 6893

Teen Suicides On The Rise

The teen years are difficult, both for the parents and the teen. It is important to know what your teen is thinking and to stay involved in his life. keep reading →
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How  You Can Encourage Children to Choose Healthy Snacks 7993

How You Can Encourage Children to Choose Healthy Snacks

Living and choosing a healthy lifestyle begins with educating your child. Help encourage a life choice of being healthy and active through the encouragement of choosing healthy snacks and foods. These are some practical techniques that can be applied on a daily basis. keep reading →
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Resurgence of head lice in the UK 7195
 

Resurgence of head lice in the UK

"Head lice are human parasites which require human blood to survive. They have been around since the beginning of time, at least a few thousand years. Head Lice can live on a human being, or host, for approximately 30 days but cannot survive longer than 24 hours off the host. This means that your head lice really need you and they will not vacate your head without a fight. So the best way to combat head lice? keep reading →
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How Do I Know I Have Aspergers Syndrome, A Form Autistic Spectrum Disorder? What If You Think Your Child Has ASD? 8892

How Do I Know I Have Aspergers Syndrome, A Form Autistic Spectrum Disorder? What If You Think Your Child Has ASD?

Asperger's Syndrome is part of a range of conditions within the field of autism. An Autistic Spectrum Disorder, or ASD, is a complex and individual condition. So, what if you think your child has ASD or how would you know you had it? This article draws from real experience which should help you with your journey. keep reading →
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How to Take Care Of Your Child Teeth 7092

How to Take Care Of Your Child Teeth

Healthy teeth and mouth during the toddler and childhood time were very important to determine the next age level. We have to take seriously to take care of our child's teeth. If not, they will have the mouth and teeth disease easily, like caries,... keep reading →
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The Importance Of Mother-Infant Bonding To A Child's Emotional Health 7593

The Importance Of Mother-Infant Bonding To A Child's Emotional Health

As far as developing their personality and the ability to bond to other people,the most important time in a baby's life is between birth and two years of age. keep reading →
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Tips to avoid the risk of crib death or SIDS 7296

Tips to avoid the risk of crib death or SIDS

There are no scientific causes and explanation to crib death and research is still going on regarding it; that being said, it is better to have safety precautions when the baby is sleeping and this is better... keep reading →
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 Conduct Disorder In Children 7993

Conduct Disorder In Children

Conduct disorder is a fancy way of saying that a child under eighteen can't or won't conform to society's norms. It is complicated and often treacherous and should only be diagnosed by a professional. keep reading →
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To Vaccinate or NOT to Vaccinate, That is the Question! 7495

To Vaccinate or NOT to Vaccinate, That is the Question!

This revision is necessary to make sure that "not too much poetic license was taken in December of 2009 when I first write this article loll I remember it exactly as I wrote it but my moma wants you guys to... keep reading →
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Why children should get the flu vaccine 5991

Why children should get the flu vaccine

Why children should get the flu vaccine Flu is more dangerous than the common colds. The symptoms include fever that lasts more than three days, hoarse voice, body aches, nasal drips and coughing. It is more... keep reading →
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How To Create A Safe And Healthy Home Environment For Your Child/Children - Reducing Toxins In Your Home. 6891

How To Create A Safe And Healthy Home Environment For Your Child/Children - Reducing Toxins In Your Home.

There are literally over 100,000 chemicals available on the market today and unbeknownst to the masses, individuals (especially children) are more likely to have the greatest contact with these potentially... keep reading →
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The Importance Of Keeping A Medical Diary For Your Kids.. 6691

The Importance Of Keeping A Medical Diary For Your Kids..

Ask any concerned parent and they'll tell you, that a large portion of good parenting requires becoming a staunch health-care advocate for their children. Logically, this no doubt begins with keeping... keep reading →
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Childhood Vaccinations : Vaccines to consider 8895

Childhood Vaccinations : Vaccines to consider

Childhood Vaccinations are a good way to ensure that your child does not suffer from certain diseases. Here is a list of vaccines that your child must be inoculated with. keep reading →
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Daily Tips For Maintaining And Protecting The Health Of Your Children. 6391

Daily Tips For Maintaining And Protecting The Health Of Your Children.

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." - So goes the old adage. Especially is this the case when maintaining and protecting our children's health becomes top priority. Without going... keep reading →
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Getting Children to Take Vitamins 6290

Getting Children to Take Vitamins

If your household is like mine, it's a daily struggle to get the kids to eat healthy foods, limit the junk food, and take a vitamin to make up for all the nutrients they just aren't getting during the day. ... keep reading →
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Techniques in making your child eat healthy foods 6591

Techniques in making your child eat healthy foods

Techniques in making your child eat healthy foods Feeding children is a challenging task. It gets more difficult when you try to feed them healthy foods. As parents of our children we want them to grow up physically fit and healthy. That being... keep reading →
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Mumps symptoms in children 6188

Mumps symptoms in children

The classic mumps symptoms in children are: Prodroma: the symptoms are preceeded by fever, headache and weakness. Enlargment of the parotid gland: it is a salivary gland that lies behind the angle of the... keep reading →
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First signs of puberty in boys and girls 6888

First signs of puberty in boys and girls

The first signs of puberty differ in boys and girls. The onset of puberty is affected by several factors including heredity, nutrition, health and emotional states. At the onset of puberty the following occur: -A growth spurt, which is a rapid... keep reading →
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Raising a Heart Healthy Child 6489

Raising a Heart Healthy Child

The reason for an article on raising a heart healthy child is to increase awareness of heart disease that can occur in children. When someone says heart disease, you most likely will envision an adult that may not have made the best health choice... keep reading →
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Managing asthma during the holiday season 6785

Managing asthma during the holiday season

Tips and suggestions to minimize or prevent asthma attacks in children during the holiday season. Common asthma triggers and ways to avoid them are discussed. keep reading →
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Raising a Heart Healthy Child with Congenital Heart Disease – Interview 8389

Raising a Heart Healthy Child with Congenital Heart Disease – Interview

Many may see the title, raising a heart healthy child with congenital heart disease, as an oxymoron in that you may believe that if the heart is healthy it will be free from defect or disease. Well, in the natural world I would agree with you,... keep reading →
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Got a Hyperactive Kid at Home? Handling an Over Mischievous Kid 7686

Got a Hyperactive Kid at Home? Handling an Over Mischievous Kid

Kids who expose over mischief and hyperactivity often turn out to be a head ache to parents. Always running around… flinging away anything and everything that comes along their way… endlessly restless…... keep reading →
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How To Combat Vitamin D Deficiency In Children. 6891

How To Combat Vitamin D Deficiency In Children.

As if we didn't have enough to worry about during this cold and flu season, an alarming and disturbing trend has arisen - the widespread vitamin-D deficiency seen in young children and teens. Known as the essential, life-saving vitamin, vitamin-D... keep reading →
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Down Syndrome in Children : Causes Symptoms and Treatments 7486

Down Syndrome in Children : Causes Symptoms and Treatments

Down's syndrome is a chromosomal disorder. It is caused by the presence of an extra 21st chromosome. A person who is affected by Down's syndrome will have 47 chromosomes instead of 46. This syndrome usually occurs in 1 in every 1000 babies. This... keep reading →
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Important things to know about Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) 6991

Important things to know about Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS)

Important things to know about Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) or Battered Baby Syndrome. It is a form of child abuse wherein the baby is shaken and it will have severe damage to their brain.  SBS is often fatal and causes brain damage to the child.... keep reading →
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Here is one way to get kids to eat their vegetables. 6392

Here is one way to get kids to eat their vegetables.

To build a healthy child, you need to start with good nutrition. But, kids are not going to make it easy for you to pump good food into them. Here is one method I stumbled upon, and it works. keep reading →
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Learning Disorders: The Impact Of A Good Library 7186

Learning Disorders: The Impact Of A Good Library

A library provides more than a warehouse for books and other historic data. Most people recognize a library as a learning centre - one that can influence and impact lives. Ponder for a few moments the impact... keep reading →
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There are a lot of problems and disorders that indeed keeps our kids at bay. With the best of my abilities I hope I can make some Hubs related to the HubMob Weekly Topic that is build to give info and insights... :D

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How to Manage and Control Asthma In Kids 6886

How to Manage and Control Asthma In Kids

The air passages in your lungs get narrowed making it difficult for you to breathe in. It can last for few hours to few days. Breathing can sound like whistles; it is short and panting. You may cough more at night. It is severe among kids. It... keep reading →
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Learning Disorders::The Walk-In Clinic Strategy 5886

Learning Disorders::The Walk-In Clinic Strategy

Learning embraces the whole person- physical,mental, emotional, spiritual and social- and the resulting,related skills. Every skill that a person possesses has been developed through some avenue- sensory,... keep reading →
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Hemophilia and Your Child: Causes and Treatments of Hemophilia 6686

Hemophilia and Your Child: Causes and Treatments of Hemophilia

Hemophilia is the name given to a particular disorder in which the person who has the disease will not have his or her blood clot properly. As we all know clotting of blood plays an important part in the healing of wounds & injuries. A person... keep reading →
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Hemophilia in children:Basic  Information about hemophilia 7888

Hemophilia in children:Basic Information about hemophilia

Basic information about hemophilia symptoms, diagnosis and treatment in chidlren. keep reading →
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How to Boost Your Child's Eating Habits 6983

How to Boost Your Child's Eating Habits

How do you motivate your kids to eat vegetables? It is indeed bothersome when your kid is picky with the foods he eats, for he will surely miss out in extracting vitamins and minerals his body needs. Vitamins and minerals that are in abundance in... keep reading →
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Allergy Symptoms and Control 6383

Allergy Symptoms and Control

Some allergy facts: Seasonal allergies is prevalent during the spring and summer months in which children may experience hay fever. Children and adults are affected by allergies. Allergies tends to run in families meaning, it is hereditary. A child... keep reading →
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Think Your Child Has Asperger’s Syndrome? Autistic Spectrum Disorder – Which Way Now?

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