What is Adopt-a-Family?
The Raising Multiples Adopt-a-Family outreach program is an annual effort, mainly at holiday time, by volunteers and donors to provide assistance to multiple birth families in need. Over the years, Adopt-a-Family has helped […]
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is endorsing a recommendation that infants at high risk of peanut allergies be given foods containing peanuts before their first birthday.
This new advice is the result of a major allergy study published earlier this year that found that exposure to […]
Electronic cigarettes are used by both smoking and nonsmoking teens, and are associated with drinking and other risky behaviors, a new study finds.
“We found that e-cigarette access is strongly related to alcohol use in teenagers,” said study author Karen Hughes. She is a professor of behavioral […]
Are you finding it difficult to get your children to do their homework, or only some of them? Here’s an article from our archives with some great advice from Dr. Jennifer Jo Brout, a school/clinical child psychologist from Westchester, NY, and mother of fraternal triplets.
Dear Dr. […]
Medication dosing errors are made by 41 percent of parents, according to research from the American Academy of Pediatrics. That’s why pharmacist Sheila Goertemoeller, of the Cincinnati Drug and Poison Information Center, wants parents and other caregivers to know how to safely administer these drugs.
These precautions […]