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More You make sure your kids brush on a regular basis, avoid sticky candy and rinse their mouths with water after eating sugary treats if they can’t brush their teeth. You even wrangle with...

More Using Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating for the whole family makes sense because children adapt the same eating patterns as their families. The Food Guide gives a lower and hig...

More Rashes can be caused by many factors, but a proper diagnosis and treatment plan will have children feeling good about being in their own skin again.Three-year-old Sam was rubbing a red patch...

More Question:How sick does my two-year-old need to be to be kept home from daycare? Is it OK to send her with the sniffles?Answer:Young children overcome as many as 10 to 15 common infectious di...

More Going to the dentist can be a scary experience for many adults so imagine what it’s like for a young child to be prodded and poked with sharp metal tools.Dr. Edward Gelfand, dentist an...

More A quick look at any kids’ menu at your local family restaurant reveals the usual suspects: pizza, grilled cheese sandwich, pasta, breaded chicken fingers or nuggets (just what part of ...

More When Dawn Mucci’s son was just four years old, he came home from daycare with lice and promptly passed it on to her. “I struggled with lice as a child and felt the stigma from ot...

More Question:Should children wear sunglasses, and if so, how do you know what kind to buy? Are cheap ones OK?Answer:This is a terrific question that many parents wonder about. Dr. Elise Heon, Ch...

More Jason, three, was happily potty-trained, or so his mom, Jennifer, thought. “Then he began waking up wet and was wetting during the day. He avoided going to the bathroom.” Jason, ...

More Regularly, check your children’s feet for problems. Look for blisters, cuts, ingrown toenails and warts. Ask your kids if they have any pain in their heels or ever have difficulty walk...