Anytime kids are in close contact with one another, lice are possible, if not probable. Have no fear, the lice myth busters are here!
A recent doctor visit prompted my physician to routinely pen a prescription after listening to my complaints. A major life change, combined with naturally-occurring hormonal changes, had resulted in feelings of anxiety and depression I couldn’t brush off. It surprised me, however, that I heard no mention of the benefits of exercise or how it might help me stay off medication if I chose to try that route first. As a seasoned runner, I knew a more consistent exercise routine might be the prescription I needed instead.
It starts out with your child being tired and looking a little under the weather. But it’s the holiday season so you chalk it up to the extra activity and some richer foods than normal. Soon, though, you realize what’s really happening. What’s happening is your child is sick and tomorrow is the ‘big day’. While we’d prefer not to have to deal with it, the reality is most families face illness during a major holiday at some point in time. Given the right attitude and a good ‘Plan B’, you can still make holiday memories. Here are a few tips on celebrating through (and in spite of) varying degrees of illness:
We often take it for granted that our children see as well as we do. This may not be the case if your child has a lazy eye. Normal vision develops early in life when the brain learns to fuse the images from both the left and right eye forming a single image, what is referred to as binocularity. Lazy eye or amblyopia, on the other hand, is a reduction in vision that results from abnormal visual development in infancy and early childhood. Amblyopia is the leading cause of decreased vision among children affecting 2 to 3 per cent of the population.
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