Preventing Sibling Rivalry
If your kids aren’t fighting yet, here are some strategies you can use now. Catch your older child...
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Category: School-Age Child
What’s so Bad about Measles? Symptoms and the MMR
Read Part 1 in this series: Why Worry About Measles? Measles outbreaks happen among people who...
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Why Worry about Measles?
Measles is all over the news right now – Is it really a big deal? I took care of a patient...
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What to do When Kids Fight
Arguing, name-calling, tattling, physical fighting, and taking one another’s things gets on...
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What’s autism, what’s not?
Don’t freak out if you catch your child head-banging, echoing others words’ or hand flapping. Yes,...
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New Treatment for Tics in Kids
Eye-blinking, sniffing, throat-clearing, finger-flexing, shoulder-shrugging – they are all simple...
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What Age is Best for Starting Team Sports?
Four-year-olds running amuck on the soccer field are adorable, but what is your child learning...
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What to do if a kid eats … How to Handle Accidental Poisonings at Home
I generally don’t put non-food substances in my mouth. But young kids exploring this new world...
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Why Do Kids Wet the Bed? Nocturnal Enuresis Explained
Nighttime bedwetting indicates that a child’s nervous system is still developing. And that’s a...
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What Can You Do About Bedwetting?
Healthy 5-to-12 year-old kids who are potty-trained during the day can wet the bed at night...
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I’m Dr. Wendy Hunter, a pediatrician and mom. I answer the questions you forgot or were too embarrassed to ask your kid’s doctor. I mix the science of modern medicine with the reality of parenting.
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