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1. Newborn Booklet for new parents.
2. Newborn Supplies that you need to buy ... and not buy.
3. Well check up advice by Dr. Knapp:
   Three Week Visit
   Two Month Visit
   Four Month Visit
   Six Month Visit
   One Year Visit
   Eighteen Month Visit
   Two Year Visit
   Three Year Visit
   Four Year Visit
   Six Year Visit
4. Growth Charts:
   Girls' Weight Growth Chart graph for 0-3 yr.
   Girl's Height Growth Chart graph for 0-3 yr.
   Girl's Weight Growth Chart graph for 2-20 yr.
   Girl's Height Growth Chart graph for 2-20 yr.
   Boys' Weight Growth Chart graph for 0-3 yr.
   Boy's Height Growth Chart graph for 0-3yr.
   Boy's Weight Growth Chart graph for 2-20 yr.
   Boy's Height Growth Chart graph for 2-20 yr.
   Girl's Head Circumference graph for 0-3 yr.
   Boy's Head Circumference graph for 0-3 yr.
5. Attention Deficit Disorder Articles:
   ADD1; Overview
   ADD2; Understanding the problem
   ADD3; Cause?
   ADD4; Getting help
   ADD5; Educational options
   ADD6; Treatments
   ADD7; Keep hope
   Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder over view and treatment
6. ADD/School Problem Teacher Questionnaire Fill out and bring in for evaluation of school trouble.
7. Acid Stomach.  Stomach acid and ulcer disease.
8. Acne & Accutane Therapy of acne with accutane.
9. Alpha 1 Antitrypsin Deficiency condition causes Emphysema early and affects kids future.
10. Angry Child Article
11. Anxiety issues in children.  What to do.
12. Arsenic in food.
13. Asthma Summer Camps for kids with moderate to severe asthma. USA list.
14. Autism delay in communication development
15. Baseball Elbow injuries and recommended pitches for age groups.
16. Bed Wetting discussion of problem and treatment.
17. Behavior We behave worse for the ones we love the most.
18. Behavior working with school age children that are giving you a lot of trouble
19. Birthmark hemangioma (red strawberry birthmark)
20. Biting     Child is biting others
21. Body Building facts about products sold to make more muscle.
22. Bottles and Pacifiers use and misuse, when to take away
23. Bowed legs and Knocked knee and the treatment
24. Breasts in 1-2 yr olds Premature Thelarche
25. Breast Cancer BRCA
26. Breath Holding Spells looks like seizure.
27. Bug Repellents use in children
28. Calcium requirements.
29. Car Child Restraints chart on size of child and type of restraint.
30. Celiac Disease what it is about ... plus good recipe of pasta.
31. Child Care facility Search
32. Cholesterol when to test, and when to treat.
33. Circumcision Circumcision#2   how, why, complications.
34. Circumcision looks not complete and it sinks in!
35. Colds & Allergies what, when and how to treat
36. Colic baby crying alot.
37. Constipation how to treat it in infants and children.
38. Contraception emergency pills to prevent pregnancy after unprotected exposure.
39. Cord Blood Bank ... AAP Opinion
40. Crib Safety 2011 new changes in law
41. Croup Cough what and how to treat.
42. Crossed Eyes.  They may not be crossed.
43. Daycare Inspection, Retirement inspection, and Doctor's probation state lists.
44. Delayed Development and ECI when your child is not progressing like others.
45. Diaper Rash different kinds and treatment.
46. Differences in husband and wife ... money to discipline.
47. Discipline recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics?
48. Divorce Letter to parents and advice for helping children.
49. Downs Syndrome health evaluation and growth curves and evaluation.
50. Drug abuse what to do with the teen.
51. Ear Infection Inner ear ache information
52. Ear Infection Swimmer's ear
53. Ear Wax how to remove.
54. Eye Vision Chart to screen your child's vision
55. Eyes crossed.   Probably not.  See article.
56. Elbow injuries from pitching baseball.  How to prevent.
57. Encopresis Bowel Movement soiling of the underwear.
58. Failure.  should you let your kids fail?
59. Family Traditions and Crafts my ideas for yearly fun things to give harmony
60. Fever and Dosage Chart for Medications; Tylenol and Motrin
61. Fifth Disease What? All about it.
62. Flat Feet what it is and treatment
63. Flu incidence and types
64. Fluid in Ears information.
65. Games play board games
66. Giving Medications to Children hints.
67. Goose egg on head.  How to treat.
68. Habits like thumb sucking and the like.
69. Halloween Safety tips on safe holiday activity.
70. Head Injury the four misconceptions on symptoms of injury.
71. Head Lice How to treat
72. Head Molded from lying on it.  How to avoid and fix it.
73. Hearing what noise does to our hearing and damage to it.
74. Hand Foot Mouth Disease info
75. Heel Pain Sever's Disease teenager with heel pain.
76. Hives.  Causes and treatments.
77. Immunizations Schedule for Children.
78. Injuries how to treat trauma like sprang, jammed finger, goose egg on head.
79. Internet Safety for children
80. Jaundice common problem in infancy (also see yellow skin .. 9-12 month olds)
81. Keratosis Pilaris small bumps on outer arms and legs
82. Knee Pain short info on it.
83. Larva Migrans (Visceral & Cutaneous) Caused from dog poo !
84. Learning Disabilities information
85. Letter to your child on their 21st birthday.

86. Lying about your past should you tell your children about your escapades of your rebellious years?

87. Moles and Melanoma article about moles and their changes.
88. Money teaching kids to handle money.
89. MRSA methicillin resistant staph aureus.
90. Multiplication how to learn the multiplication tables.
91. Nasty behavior with other child.  Show and touch or playing doctor.
92. Newborn Supplies what you need and not need for the baby.
93. Newborn Supplemental Screening for 30 other inborn metabolic disorders.
94. Night mares and night terrors what is the difference and what to do.
95. Noise loud noise and damage to hearing
96. Obesity.  A novel idea and plan
97. Parenting ten good things to do.
98. Permission Form a permission form to leave with others when leaving your child.
99. Picky Eater.  How to help your kids when they are fussy about what they eat.
100. Pinworms.   what is it and how to treat it.
101. Pink Eye is it pink eye or not?
102. Pneumonia Does the X-ray really tell us?
103. Poison Control where to look for poison control.
104. Poison Ivy what and how to prevent and treat.
105. Potty Training - My Advice; Article on difficult cases for those refusing.
106. Rabies information
107. Rash from sunlight on sun exposed areas. Rash small bumps on upper arms and legs.
108. Reader slow or even dyslexic ... my personal thoughts
109. Reflux of the stomach.   What it is and how to treat it.
110. Rodent pests and pets.  (No they don't have rabies ... they have LCMV!)
111. Runny nose what, when to call, what to do.
112. School Problem Form PDF  Form Doc File to evaluate your child's school difficulties.
113. Scoliosis, Scoliosis#2 , Scoliosis Success story information about scoliosis
114. Self Esteem.  How to build it up
115. Sibling Rivalry suggestions when new baby comes or 1 yr. old with older sibling
116. SIDS Sudden Infant Death prevention recommendations
117. Sinus information
118. Snake Bite information.
119. Speech development first 2 years.
120. Sprang ankle.  treatment
121. Stomach Aches in school age, what to look for and how to treat.
122. Strabismus  True or false crossed eyes.
123. Stuttering in the child. Long article on causes and treatment.
124. Sunscreen recommendations
125. Swimming Advice on programs for infants and children.
126. Sweat if your feet or hands sweat too much... see Iontophoresis for treatment.
127. Talking Back what do you do.
128. Tear Duct Obstruction causes infant's eyes to mat up each morning
129. Teeth when, what, why, care,
130. Teeth knocked out tooth care.
131. Teenhealth
132. Thrush information (the white stuff in babies mouth)
133. Thumb sucking and other habits.
134. Time Out and beyond  for discipline
135. Toe in (Pigeon toed) and toe out
136. Toe turn blue hair tourniquet around toe
137. Tonsillectomy when do we take out tonsils.
138. Traditions Family traditions.... why and suggestions
139. Trampolines safety information about use
140. Traveling to Countries when to get vaccinated to Hepatitis A and get Malaria Medicine.
141. Ulcers what really causes them and how we permanently cure them.
142. Umbilical cord infection? what to look for if infected.
143. Vaccinations to vaccinate or not. Risks/benefits.   Mercury/Thymersol Controversy
144. Vaccine   Vaccine Handouts by CDC
145. Vaccine Schedule for children;  
146. Vitamins, RDA and nutrition and minerals
147. Vomiting & Diarrhea information
148. Waking at Night what to do when they wake up at night as a toddler
149. Wart Treatment different than the doctor freezing it.
150. West Nile .... incidence
151. Yellow Skin skin turns yellow around 9-12 months old.

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Last updated: February 15, 2013