My love of holidays started during my childhood because my parents made them special. Halloween was my dad’s shining moment. He would sit each year crouched in the bushes by our front porch wearing a sheet with eyeholes and his professorial, wire-rimmed glasses, ready to jump out and scare little trick-or-treaters.
In the July issue of the Journal of Pediatrics, a study of boys with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) compared use of technology, or video games, with use by ADHD boys and the general pediatric male population.
The government and private insurance companies now demand a great deal of detailed information be documented by doctors during your visits to the office. In response, many practices like Eugene Pediatric Associates have purchased electronic medical records.
Each day, life offers great ways to test your kids' math skills when you are together. There are lots of fun suggestions online, but try some of the following with your kids, even if they're older and well past addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
Each year, U.S. emergency departments treat an estimated 173,285 sports- and recreation-related traumatic brain injuries, including concussions, among children and adolescents from birth to 19 years.
My 12-year-old just introduced me to websites that I think are truly dangerous for kids. Sites that allow kids to ask and answer questions from anyone on the Internet. Kids can show photos and personal data about themselves, and then anyone can ask further questions.