For Food Allergies, a Halloween Appeal: Go Teal!
From classroom parties and Trunk-or-Treats to ghosts and goblins knocking on your door, Halloween puts snacking front and center. But for youngsters on restricted…
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3 Steps to Skip Flu Season
The flu can cause children to miss school, activities or even be hospitalized. You can get sick simply from droplets made when people with…
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How to Tame Your Child’s Sweet Tooth
Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas: It’s that time of year when sugar consumption is on overload for children. How can parents regulate their child’s sweet…
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Ask the Nutritionist: Sugar & Your Kid
Health and Nutrition experts from The American Heart Association (AHA) recently recommended that children ages two to 18 consume no more than six teaspoons of…
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Help Your Child Develop Good Study Habits
As parents we know the evening homework and study drill. Whether we sit with our young students to help them complete their assignments, or…
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Walk Your Kids to School
It’s fall and the weather is perfect for walking, just in time for International Walk to School day. Take the time to walk with…
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Get a Healthy Start on the School Year
The Back-to-School season means it’s also the cold and flu season. Are your kids armed with the proper knowledge and tools to fight the…
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Master the Parent-Teacher Conference
It’s almost time for the first parent-teacher conferences of the year. For parents, this meeting can cause anxiety because it is an evaluation of…
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How to Build Your Child’s Empathy Muscles
Empathy is a skill—one that we can cultivate and strengthen with practice. It requires us to imagine how someone else is feeling and then respond…
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The Importance of Family Reading
Reading gives us two gifts—the gift of understanding and the gift of feeling understood. Every new book you read shows you another life, another…
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