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Parenting

Head Lice Has Entered the Group Chat

Your child has just brought home the letter parents dread to receive – head lice is in their classroom. But we know our readers follow the #smartnotstressed philosophy, so like...

Published on October 11, 2024
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Illness Prevention & Management

Telemedicine: just what the doctor ordered!

What if your child needed subspecialty pediatric care and you lived over 100 miles away from any big medical center?  What would you do?  Well, I’m guessing you’d drive those...
Published on October 17, 2016
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Illness Prevention & Management

Crying the Colicky Blues

It was 10:45pm a few weeks ago and I was winding down what I would call a steady evening seeing patients.  I looked up from my computer and there was...
Published on October 10, 2016
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Mental & Behavioral Health

Cell Phone Use in the Classroom: Yay or Nay?

I have a friend, a high school math teacher, who described her recent work frustration that she’s not allowed to enforce a “no cell phone rule” during instructional class time....
Published on September 28, 2016
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Illness Prevention & Management

Just For Good Measure

I took this photo of a few VERY DIFFERENT SIZED teaspoons that are in my kitchen. Tapping into my artistic side? Brainstorming about a new concept for a musical instrument?...
Published on September 12, 2016
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Mental & Behavioral Health

Back to School Belly Achin'

I’ve got a good friend whose son Vince, a 4th grader, has a regular problem with “stomachaches.”  These are kind of unusual stomachaches, because they appear to be seasonal, almost...
Published on August 15, 2016
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Illness Prevention & Management

Bedwetters Anonymous

You know what’s great?  That my 8 year old is not totally stressed out that she is still an occasional bed wetter.  It happens to her about once every six...
Published on August 1, 2016
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Illness Prevention & Management

It all started with one.

One Million Visits. Pretty great, huh? We couldn’t be prouder, more excited and grateful, or more inspired to move ahead towards the next million. We’ve grown and learned and prospered....
Published on July 19, 2016
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