This week’s Sunday New York Times Magazine contains an article about treatment for ADHD (click here). It is written by a well-known psychologist, L. Alan Sroufe. Dr. Sroufe has published research about treatment for ADHD for many years; he is now about 70, and is Professor Emeritus of psychology at the University of Minnesota’s [...]
Want to hear the latest on babyproofing your house? Click on this New York Times article HERE. There are some surprises. Using plug-in outlet covers? Most adults don’t plug them back in. Video monitors? There are reports of kids getting strangled on the cords. But some old suggestions are still valid. The best way to [...]
Newspapers are reporting on a new study, released this morning: Kids are watching more TV, and upper-income kids are playing more video games on cell phones. (Read it here.) No surprise, right? But it’s not good, and not inevitable! Here’s the comment I posted about this NY Times article. (Or see the posting HERE.) —————————– [...]
A new study links regular diet soda use with strokes and heart attacks. A study presented this week at the American Stroke Association International Stroke Conference (ISC) suggests a 61% increase in stroke for people who drink diet sodas regularly. (Click here to read more.) Does diet soda cause stroke? Or does the association merely [...]
Everyone “knows” that babies have trouble when they are teething. But I think that teething doesn’t cause nearly as much trouble as its reputation suggests. Babies start “gumming” and drooling on hard objects, starting at a few months of age. This might be due to teething, or it might just be oral exploration. You can [...]
Every few years, the CDC surveys the rate of ADHD in American children. Last week, in the edition of MMWR dated 11/12/10, the CDC reported that 9.5% of American children under 18 had been diagnosed with ADHD in 2007, a 22% increase since 2003. (Apparently it took 3 years to collect and report the data.) [...]
For many years, heavy advertising for Baby Einstein videos implied that infants who watch TV (specifically their DVD’s) grow up smarter. But pediatricians and advocacy groups were skeptical. No proof was ever offered, and several studies demonstrated harm to infants watching much TV. Complaints were lodged with the Federal Trade Commission, asking the FTC to [...]
My daughter was never far from a book. Starting from a few weeks of age, we read to her several times a day. It was our favorite activity, and it was her favorite choice as well. We had favorite books, which would get read every day. We all knew the words by heart! I’ve listed [...]
Do you believe that the magazines, movies and TV shows your kids watch don’t influence your kids’ behavior? Think again! Children and teens copy the behaviors they see in the movies and on TV, according to research. Cigarettes: If the characters in a show are smoking, kids who see the show are more likely to [...]
Most children are potty trained during the daytime well before the age that they become dry at night. Children older than 4 years old who still wear pull-ups in the daytime are uncommon. But children who require pull-ups until age 6, or even older, are not unusual. This is not surprising, because the skills required [...]
