How to enhance the bone health of kids? The healthy habits contributing to the growth of the children are also beneficial for their bone health. The key of developing health habits for the little ones is becoming good role models as parents. It’s true that when a child sees the parents sticking to good habits he gets encouraged for doing the same. The most essential good habits that one needs to maintain lifelong for having strong bones are getting involved in daily physical activities and proper nutrition; the same stands true for the kids too. Let us know what to eat for having healthy bones. Nutrition for strong and healthy bones includes lots of food items rich in vitamin D and calcium. Generally, the vitamin D obtained from sunlight is enough for majority of the kids; if not having foods  [...] 

The first year of your baby’s life is going to be replete with a number of vaccinations; and thanks to media and general public speculation, there are a lot of controversies that surround all these baby vaccinations. Read about some of these common questions that you may have had as a parent, and put your mind at ease. Best Defense: If you do not wish to get your baby vaccinated, the only other way to prevent any sort of infectious disease would be to keep your child encased in a bubble. That doesn’t sound too probable, does it? You could try and be careful about who and what your kid plays with, and this itself could be a guarantee of their good health. Moreover, even after being vaccinated, if your child gets a disease, the symptoms will not be as serious as they could have been sans  [...] 

Whether you realize it or not, you could tomorrow be in a situation where you have a kids dental emergency to deal with. What should you do if such a situation arises? Here are some tips on how to deal with these uninvited situations. Knocking out a permanent tooth: If your child happens to lose a permanent tooth while he’s on the playground, you can consider it an emergency that requires you to provide for immediate dental care. You could actually save the tooth by getting it replaced almost immediately. If the tooth is dirty, pick it up and wash it gently. Ensure that you place emphasis on the word ‘gently’, or you might end up losing some of the ligaments that could help you reattach the tooth. Try and firmly place it back in its socket until you get to the dentist. However, if you’re  [...] 

The dictionary definition of weaning is making a young mammal used to food other than the mother’s milk. This phenomenon is very cut and dried in the animal world. In human beings the process is much more complicated. Weaning Your Baby is an integral part of the breastfeeding experience. It does not always have to be a period of unhappiness for the mother and the baby. Weaning should be done with love and in a gradual manner. This will ensure that the results will be positive. Typically, babies nurse till they outgrow their needs. This is known as natural weaning. It is also known as baby led weaning. The needs of each baby are unique. Some babies prefer being carried whereas other will sit in a certain position for hours while they entertain themselves. There can be not arbitrary limit on  [...] 

There has been a perennial debate about what is good and what’s not when it comes to beginning solid food for your baby. Here are some pointers that you could keep in mind. Start at about 4 – 6 months: This is generally the recommended time that you could begin introducing your kid to solid foods. The recommended first timers are rice cereal that has been mixed with breast milk or some sort of formula. However, do not solely go by age. Each baby takes its own amount of time to get things right. Before you actually start consuming solids, try and ensure that your baby is sitting up and can turn their heads away. They should also be capable of making chewing motions. Breast Milk Or Formula Is Also Needed: Just because you’re introducing solids into his diet doesn’t mean that his need  [...] 

So you’ve decided that it is time for your bundle of joy to be introduced to the world of solid foods. We are assuming this would mean that your baby is between the ages of 4 to 6 months now; because this is the right time for them to start out with their chewing techniques. If your little one is younger than that, then solids just won’t do; because his/her digestive system is still too naïve to deal with anything other than breast milk or the formula that you’ve been using. Ensure that you don’t hold on beyond the 6 month point, or your baby might just get so accustomed to the idea of the liquid diet that he/she might lose total interest in the concept of chewing and swallowing their solid foods. Tip # 1 – Do not add cereal to the bottle. Adding cereal would add extra calories  [...] 

Most parents will agree that they have a super tough time getting their little ones to take that medicine. ‘Medicine time’ then becomes a time of frustration and complications; often resulting in messy clothes owing to the spillage caused by them running away or moving around too much. If the ‘Here comes the airplane’ tactic has stopped working, you might want to turn to these strategies. Wear your happy face – Kids are smarter than you think. They can sense negativity from 100 yards away. If you want to get your kid to take his/her meds, let them not see the medicine. Seeing the medicine, by itself, in most cases will evoke negative emotions. Make your kid lie down, cover his/her eyes and play peek-a-boo with them. On the fourth or the fifth time, put the syringe in his/her mouth  [...] 

In a recently conducted poll, a good amount of 60% mums and dads have confessed to being worried about their kid’s safety around the toys that he/she plays with. The constant news that kids end up in health hazards related to toys due to the lead content in them can be troubling for most parents. It comes as no surprise that such a huge chunk of them is worried; and how! The U.S. Government is the only body which can police each and every toy that is being manufactured in the country; and can determine whether or not they are safe and fit for use. Parents also expect the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to help protect the public by not letting the riskier toys reach the shelves. Unfortunately, neither of these 2 bodies have been doing the needful to ensure the safety and protection  [...] 

A recent study has thrown light on a topic that has deluded us for years. The connection between television and obesity has been shown clearly over the years. Nonetheless, this new study has shown that children who turn to TV dinners are more likely to give up on their greens. Couch Potato and No Greens The idea that works here is that, when you’re having a quiet dinner by yourself, you focus on what’s going into your stomach and what isn’t. At the same time, if children have dinner with their parents around, they are likely to be bothered about the nutritional value of their diet. Where Was This Study Conducted? This study was conducted by the Tufts University in Boston. They did their study by researching the patterns of 91 families during their dinner times. The children  [...] 

7 year old Tara was a happy-go-lucky child, until one day her mom noticed that something was wrong. Tara would get teary-eyed over anything and everything at all. Plus, she began avoiding all her sleeveless clothes. Her mom brought up the topic one day, and Tara broke down once again, screaming that she didn’t want to speak about it. Finally, however, she did calm down and discuss things with her mother. She confessed to having hair growing in her armpits. She was shocked, because her body felt different. She craved to be like the other hairless girls in her class, but she wasn’t like them anymore. She just didn’t fit in. Tara’s mother, on the other hand, was in for a culture shock, because she hadn’t imagined discussing puberty-related issues with her daughter  [...]