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 […]
We’ve already talked about medical proverbs such as “cold hands, warm heart,” “feed a cold, starve a fever,” “drink eight glasses of water a day,” “cigarettes will stunt your growth” and that “apple a day”… thing. But there are some we left out because the list was getting a bit long for one sitting. I’m […]
The just barely turned teen Logan LaPlante told the attendees at the TEDxUniversityOfNevada conference that the most annoying question kids are always asked is: “what do you wanna be when you grow up.” He then went on to explain that he just wants to be happy like he is now – and that we “don’t seem to make learning how to be happy and healthy a priority in our schools.” Watch this mature-for-age homeschooled kid talk about how he has “hacked” school into something that makes him not only educated but happy. Happy with home schooling.
[An international reader of the blog whose “licensed doctor for the young/kids” diagnoses “tonsillitis” and “Typhoid fever” frequently making him confused.] (more…)
[A mother is perplexed by her 9 year-old daughters seeming chronic/recurrent urinary tract infections.] (more…)
[Site no longer active – camped on by some recruiter] At the behest of an altruistic humanitarian doing work with the poor in the tenements of New York’s Lower East Side, Lina Rogers RN entered the schools to see if she could make a difference in October of 1902 – dressings were changed (rat bites), […]
Fussing around trying to find photos to accompany my many posts in the series about ADHD and hyperactivity, I stumbled upon a great article from one of the most “down home” type physicians on the internet, Greg Barrett MD. A professor at a prestigious college, this guy has won many awards from his medical students […]