Chickenpox Can Be Serious: Protect Your Child
Chickenpox is a very contagious disease. You or your child may be at risk if you have never had chickenpox or have never gotten the vaccine. Chickenpox causes a blister-like…
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Saliva Can Clean Dirty Pacifiers and Reduce Allergy Risk
Parents use a variety of methods to clean a baby’s pacifier: rinsing it in tap water, boiling it, or putting it in their own mouth and sucking on it before…
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Top 5 Myths About Rear Facing Car Seats
In April 2012, the American Academy of Pediatrics updated their recommendations on rear facing car seats. Now, it’s recommended that children should ride in rear facing car seats until age 2 (or…
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Does Your Toddler Need Glasses?
By Nancy Gottesman How do you know if your child needs glasses? Often, it’s intuition. “Some parents just believe their child doesn’t see well,” says Hawke Yoon, MD, a pediatric…
Continue readingHow to Get Your Toddler Talking
Waiting for your child to say her first words is majorly exciting—but it can also be majorly nerve-wracking. Between watching how other toddlers are developing, reading parenting magazines, and scrolling…
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By Stacy Whitman Toys are supposed to be fun, but the potentially harmful chemicals found in many of them can be anything but. Hazardous materials like BPA, lead, cadmium, arsenic,…
Continue readingByebye, Bed-Wetting!
If your tot has nighttime accidents, he’s not alone: Up to 7 million children are bed wetters, estimates The National Kidney Foundation. But why does it happen even after a…
Continue readingKids Dental Care Tips
By Stacy Whitman Why kids dental care matters Kids dental care can be easy to brush off when you’re dealing with a squirmy or uncooperative tot. But there are important…
Continue readingHelpful Hygiene Habits for Toddlers
By Nancy Gottesman Turns out, potty hygiene can play an important role in helping your family stay healthy during cold and flu season—and all year long. “Teaching good toilet habits…
Continue readingHalloween Costume Safety: What to Look For
This content of this article was originally published by CPSC.gov CPSC and U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s recent seizure at a U.S. port of two shipments of children’s Halloween costumes with safety…
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