Who would have thought that everything good in childhood could come from climbing into your high chair as a toddler or slumping into the chair of teenage angst to sit through dinner with your family? But study after study seems to duplicate the same results: the common sense reality is that the family dinner is profoundly important. […]
It’s been a fruit and vegetable month, and my hero nutritionist colleague, Ellyn Satter may have met her match in my youngest son! As many of you know, one of my favorite books is titled How To Get Your Kid To Eat, But Not Too Much; and as a pediatrician I recommend it all the time. […]
So how powerful are words? For weeks of cold weather now, I have asked, cajoled, ordered, coaxed the minions to choose an appropriate coat. The battle lines were drawn between the “too poofy” and the “ugly fat coat” until I changed gears, and …I began to tell my children something altogether different. After watching Dr. Christine […]
So it’s January, mid month and the New Year’s resolutions are a distant memory…unless you live in my home where four constant reminders of why I care about good health are all underfoot. One of my children reminds me that “you don’t need to wait until the New Year to change something that needs changing […]
It’s that time of year again, winter, when the sheer number of things to accomplish often overwhelms the system. The “system” might be anything from the number of people in line at the grocery store to the number of sick children at the pediatrician’s office. Take a deep breath and Remember to hold something in […]