“The talk” doesn’t seem to be enough anymore in the mine-field that is a teenager’s life where drugs and sex related issues are commonplace. Here’s a link to what the Mayo Clinic has to say about talking to your teens about sex.
[Page is no longer served on the CDC site – an odd thing for a major government entity like the CDC to do; but, there you are.] Body Mass Index (BMI) uses weight and height to calculate a reliable indicator of body fatness for most people in order to screen for potential health problems. Here is a link to a BMI calculator for your child or teen to use.
[Page no longer active – which makes me sorry, you should have seen it in it’s day!]
Even if school wasn’t out for this summer, physical activity guidelines for children are simple and clear – 60 minutes of exercise each day. Here is a great link to simple examples of types and amounts of exercise for children, and two great examples from actual children’s exercise diaries – courtesy of the CDC.
Is it really possible, in this day and age, for a child to meet the minimum exercise guidelines necessary for good health? This is a link to simple steps a parent can take to make physical activity a part of a child’s life.
[Site no longer active – It’s camped on by an internet “flipper” trying to make a killing. I even tried to use the “wayback” archives to try and resurrect the page to include here; but, alas, it didn’t work!] Being a parent to a child with Asperger’s High-Functioning Autism is at least high-adventure parenting if not an “extreme sport.” This father of three, EMT tech, photographer is also a blogger of a site he calls: Adventures in Asperger’s.
[Site no longer active – which makes me sorry, you really should have seen it in it’s day!]
[http://www.adventuresinaspergers.com/]
[This site hasn’t been posted on since 2017 when her son with Aspergers turned thirteen. The text is still there but the accompanying photos don’t load, probably because the Amazon AWS account has not been renewed. They don’t exist in the “wayback machine archive” either, darn!]The mother of an autistic child says it all in the title of her blog: “The A-Word – Living, Learning, Laughing and Loving with Autism.”
[Site no longer active – which makes me sorry for you. You really should have seen it in it’s day!]
[http://a-word.bangordailynews.com/]
This mother has a unique approach to her children’s “star charts” – rewarding good behavior and focusing on “successes.”
[http://nicholleandherboys.blogspot.com/2012/03/if-you-didnt-already-know-landon-likes.html]
“Go wash your hands” – words children can’t hear often enough; but, it shouldn’t always be from you. This page teaches children why and how to wash their hands.
Link to a graphic teaching younger children how to “Cover Your Cough” and why it is important to their health. A neat printable graphic you can use. Of course, now children are taught to cover their cough with their elbow; but a tissue or handkerchief still works too.
[This site has been hacked by a Marijuana sales site and is no longer active (disgusting) – which makes me sorry for you. You really should have seen it in its day!]
Living with any chronic medical condition can be exhausting, especially so with Cystic Fibrosis. But few understand just what it is or what it is like to live with it. Here is a blog kept by the mother of a 10-year-old boy with Cystic Fibrosis – Azer.
[Site no longer active – even the “wayback archive doesn’t help]
[http://www.azerscfwebsite.com/]
How does a non-confrontational parent discipline her boys? Click on the link above or below to give it a read; and see one mother’s experience trying to raise a “tribe” of four boys—especially as they turn into teenagers.
[http://tovskytwins.blogspot.com/2009/12/disciplinarian.html]
[Page is no longer served – don’t know what’s up with the CDC and changing URL addresses, they should know better.] Bugs in Food – not a good thought. If you were in my office, and I needed to talk to your child about keeping food clean from bad bugs, this is what you would hear. I’m just glad somebody wrote it down before I needed to do it.
[Site no longer active – which makes me sorry for you. You really should have seen it in it’s day!]
[ http://www.ncagr.gov/cyber/kidswrld/foodsafe/badbug/badbug.htm ]