Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:56:54 +0000

Warm thanks to all who have read and left such passionate and insightful comments to these articles.  This website has been a project of mine through the phase of early motherhood.  Now that my children are getting older I am fortunate to be able to resume my former career in film and television, and communicate [...](image)

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:10:09 +0000

Are you a verbal learner or a visual learner? Chances are, you’ve pegged yourself or your children as either one or the other and rely on study techniques that suit your individual learning needs. However, a new report finds no evidence for the learning styles hypothesis.(image)

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:36:39 +0000

Applying the astringent makes us feel in control, but are we being effective? The quick and dirty answer is Yes and No.(image)

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:52:47 +0000

Many parents grew up with medical adages or advice that have since been proven by scientists to be incorrect or outdated. Here are five common myths about children’s eye health and the medical reality behind them, prepared by the physicians at The Vision Center at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles.(image)

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:45:31 +0000

New research hints that the common belief that kids who go to daycare have lower rates of asthma and allergy later in life might be nothing more than wishful thinking.(image)

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:10:19 +0000

What about the child who, despite diligent night-training, continues to sleep right through the urge to use the bathroom. Is it his fault? Is it ours?(image)

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:05:16 +0000

No less a revered medical institution than the Mayo Clinic, the saviors of severely medically challenged children nationwide, have studied and declared that anesthetics used during cesarean births do not cause children to have brain problems.(image)

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:54:38 +0000

For years, doctors and scientists have told the public to drink milk, eat dairy products and take calcium supplements to improve bone health and prevent osteoporosis. The problem is they're wrong.(image)

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:04:27 +0000

Aside from the obvious nutritional benefits of ingesting natural sugars from their source , eating foods created from refined sugar of any kind seems to fall firmly within the jurisdiction of the epithet, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."(image)

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:20:40 +0000

The story that children far and wide are being poisoned by unwrapped Halloween candy and home-baked Halloween cookies, even that there was ever a razor blade in the apple is the very definition of an urban legend. It is a myth to the extent that NO American child is on record as EVER being seriously hurt by a contaminated Trick-or-Treat bon bon.(image)