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Parenting: Draw your own circles

[Guest Author] This article on Families is the sixth in a series of guest posts from a pediatrician I’ve never met but have bonded with over shared ideas, opinions and experiences; including having a penchant for medical blogging.
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Parenting: Toilet Training Is Not a Parenting Test

[Guest Author] This article on Toilet Training, is the fifth in a series of guest posts from a pediatrician I’ve never actually met but have “bonded” with because of shared ideas, opinions, experiences and philosophies—including having a penchant for medical blogging.
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Teenagers: Maturing and “THE Talk”

[Guest Author] This article on having “THE sex talk” or sex education, is the fourth in a series of guest posts from a pediatrician I’ve never met but have bonded with over shared ideas, opinions and experiences; including having a penchant for medical blogging.
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Most Important Parenting, When It Appears The Least

[Guest Author] This article on the “Most Important Parenting” is the third in a series of guest posts from a pediatrician I’ve never met but have bonded with over sharing ideas, opinions and experiences; including having a penchant for medical blogging.
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Parenting: Four bad ages

[Guest Author] This article on the “bad ages” for parenting is the second in a series of guest posts from another pediatrician I’ve never met but have bonded with. We share ideas, opinions and experiences including having a penchant for medical blogging.
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Choose Your Battles With Teens Over Hair and Clothing

[Guest Author] I’ve mentioned before how I stumbled upon another “blogger” on the internet and bonded instantly, like he was a “brother from another mother” based on the fact that we had been writing similar pediatric articles completely independently for years. His URL is up for sale now, and I’ve lost track of him, but his content will be here for safe keeping until he wants them back.
 
This one: “Choose your battles” is “survival parenting 101.” It merely means to save your energy, and credibility, for the “big stuff” (and there is enough of that to be going on with).
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Sleep Problems: Older Children, Toddlers, Stumbling Blocks

Siblings sharing a vacation bed – “A nickel to the first one asleep”It seems like I can’t escape dealing with sleep problems (yep, they’re that common) and just as difficult to answer.

Narrowing it a bit (at least in my mind) to three groups: Infants, toddler-big kids (schoolers) and biggest kids (teens).

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When Should School Start For Teens

Dr. Troxel is the mother of a teen who she claims needs extraordinary measures to awaken for the early start times of their school district. And it’s not due to Snapchat, social life or hormones she says; but rather: public school policy!

School Start Times
When is too early and why it matters

Wendy Troxel is not only a mother of a teen but is a fairly renowned sleep researcher and explains that “teens don’t get enough sleep” and that “early school district start times deprive adolescents of sleep during the time of their lives when they need it most.”

Being a Senior Behavioral and Social Scientist at RAND and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh she should know. Much of her research is funded by the National Heart-Lung institute, the NIH and the DOD and focuses on the interface between sleep, social environment and health as well as its implications for public policy.

The bottom line: “school start-times for teens should not be before 8:30 AM.” What time does your teen need to report to school?

 

Telling Truth or Lies to Children: Parenting

Even though I’ve never met him, my brother from another mother Dr. Greg Barrett beat me yet again to writing another parenting article and literally took the words right out of my mouth: Telling truth or lies to children—being honest with your children.

So much so it’s going to be hard giving you my personal take on this important part of parenting without feeling like I’m just repeating what he said: whether or not to tell the truth or lie to your children.
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Discipline, Parents, Kids and “Natural Consequences”

I got a kick discovering an “atlas” of parenting and discipline types (according to Laura Hamilton at UC-Merced CA) who tallied three categories: Bystander parents with limited kid contact; Paramedics swooping in for major problems; and, Helicopters always hovering all the time.

I say a kick because although entertainingly descriptive (and perhaps embarrassingly accurate to a degree) it just seems to leave a WHOLE LOT out of the equation—and ignore half of it entirely: the kid!
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Parenting: Discipline

“Discipline,” that’s a 200-pound-gorilla-in-the-room topic if I ever heard one!

These days the so-called “do-gooders,” “haters” and “conspiracy theorists” all over the internet have made poor parents fear even the word “discipline”… let alone actually giving it to their child. But “discipline” is different than “punishment” you know.
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