We have an 8 month old daughter who is very fussy. She cries whenever I put her down and won’t stop until I pick her up again. This happens all day long. I’m getting real tired of it. Please help me. Answer: Crying is your babies form of communicating. It is how she lets you know she is hungry, wet, dirty , tired, etc. It is vitally important that you respond appropriately to legitimate […]
Hi Stephanie & Doug This past week you received some very alarming news about cancer and I just want to share with you some of the things that I learned about cancer when my family was hit with it a few years ago. First, cancer is a word that sounds very scary. We hear so much about it and most of what we hear sounds like bad news. But let me tell you some […]
SIBLING RIVALRY Let’s do a little word association game. I say a word and you say the first word that pops into your mind: dog – cat wedding – cake, dress colour – red horse – buggy sibling – rivalry Sibling rivalry has existed as long as we’ve had siblings! In Biblical times we had Cain and Abel, Joseph and his brother problems. In children’s stories we have […]
HOW TO TALK TO YOUR KIDS ABOUT DRUGS – IF YOU DID DRUGS (your experience may actually be an advantage) 1.THIS ISN’T ABOUT YOU. We all want to warn our kids against the dangers of drug use. But the single biggest reason so many of us are reluctant to start the conversation is because we’re afraid we’ll be asked that uncomfortable question: “Mom – Dad . . . did you do drugs?” So lets start […]
“Drink for drink, alcohol is more dangerous to young women than it is to young men, even after adjusting for differences in height and weight. Alcohol abuse appears to damage girls’ brains differently and more severely than the same degree of alcohol abuse affects same-age boys. These facts are well established among researchers who study alcoholism, but they are not as well known as they ought to be – maybe in part because gender […]
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