Childrens Health and Parenting - Family
Dealing with a vegetarian in a household of carnivores can be challenging, but rest assured, everyone can co-exist peacefully.
For students, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder can present a host of unique challenges and opportunities.
Learn important strategies to help your child flourish in the classroom and beyond.
Allergens can attack almost anywhere, including your own home. Follow these tips to reduce your risk.
With these six easy tips, you can transform your refrigerator and your health.
Living with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) can be a challenge, but these tips can make it easier.
How sick is too sick for work? Follow our cold and flu guidelines.
Millions of women and girls are affected by ADHD, but they're rarely diagnosed. Learn how to spot the symptoms.
Care for your child with confidence with these 10 tips.
Keeping cool on hot summer days isn't only a matter a comfort—it's vital for good health and even survival.
These friendly bacteria can do wonders for your digestive system. Learn how your body can start reaping the benefits.
Understand your choices for better decision-making.
Approximately two-thirds of adults watch TV in the hour before they go to bed. If you have ongoing sleep problems, ask yourself if you're one of them.
So you're ready to adopt a pet? Before you open your home to a furry friend, find out exactly what you need to have in place.
Your pet is an important member of your family. But along with the happiness your furry friend brings is great deal of responsibility, on your part, to keep your cat or dog in tip-top shape.
While some disobedience is a normal part of a child's development, overly troubling behavior is not. Watch out for these signs.
Balancing office and home life can create conflicts between demands and stress from both sides. But there may also be healthy benefits to working outside the home.
Here are recommendations that will keep your child's brown bag from spoiling, and possibly making her sick.
A study conducted at the University of Hawaii's animal science department of 106 pet owners found that almost a third experienced grief that lasted six months or more after their pet's death. Twelve percent reported that their grief caused major disruptions in their lives.
Here are tips for working through grief in a healthy way when it involves an entire community.
Strong parenting and emotional well-being are closely connected. Dr. Gerald Newmark, author of the book "How to Raise Emotionally Healthy Children," offers his top child-rearing strategies.
When you have food allergies, organizing your kitchen and other food storage areas isn't just convenient it's essential.
One study found that support groups improved cancer survivors' mood, pain, symptom control, and social functioning. Here's what to consider in order to find a support group that works for you.
Everyone copes with loss in his or her own way. If you've lost a child, you can find a multitude of organizations, books, blogs, and support groups to help you. Behind them all, you'll find parents who have also suffered the same loss.
If you're living with a sleepwalker, here's what you should know before your child takes his next nighttime stroll.
BPA is used in the production of some hard plastics and the plastic-like linings of many metal cans used to package foods and beverages. Since BPA leaches out of the plastic and into the contents of the can when exposed to heat, there is wide concern about its toxic effect.
Why should you make your own baby food? Let's see, it's generally more nutritious, less costly, and it takes hardly any effort to get started.
You're wheezing, coughing, and short of breath, but could it really be asthma? Learn how doctors go about diagnosing this chronic condition.
Should you throw out a container of yogurt if you notice that the date on the package is a few days beyond the date you're planning on eating it? Well, it all depends on these factors.
The importance of sleep can't be over stated. But in our 24/7 society, many children have trouble drifting off. Melatonin works as a sleep-aid for many adults, so is it a good option for kids, too?