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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. ACL ligament injuries and how to prevent it
9. Acne & Accutane Therapy of acne with accutane.
10. Alpha 1 Antitrypsin Deficiency condition causes Emphysema early and affects kids future.
11. Allergic
12. Amoeba the brain eating germ
13. Anemia why give vitamins with iron.
14. Angry Child Article
15. Anxiety issues in children.  What to do.
16. Arsenic in food.
17. Asthma Summer Camps for kids with moderate to severe asthma. USA list.
18. Autism delay in communication development
19. Baseball Elbow injuries and recommended pitches for age groups.
20. Bed Wetting discussion of problem and treatment.
21. Behavior We behave worse for the ones we love the most.
22. Behavior working with school age children that are giving you a lot of trouble
23. Birthmark hemangioma (red strawberry birthmark)
24. Biting     Child is biting others
25. Body Building facts about products sold to make more muscle.
26. Bottles and Pacifiers use and misuse, when to take away
27. Bowed legs and Knocked knee and the treatment
28. Breasts in 1-2 yr olds Premature Thelarche
29. Breast Cancer BRCA
30. Breath Holding Spells looks like seizure.
31. Bug Repellents use in children
32. Calcium requirements.
33. Car Child Restraints chart on size of child and type of restraint.
34. Celiac Disease what it is about ... plus good recipe of pasta.
35. Child Care facility Search
36. Cholesterol when to test, and when to treat.
37. Circumcision Circumcision#2   how, why, complications.
38. Circumcision looks not complete and it sinks in!
39. Coffee and Caffeine.  Health benefits and amounts in different drinks.
40. Colds & Coughs what, when and how to treat
41. Colic baby crying alot.
42. Constipation how to treat it in infants and children.
43. Contraception emergency pills to prevent pregnancy after unprotected exposure.
44. Cord Blood Bank ... AAP Opinion
45. Crib Safety 2011 new changes in law
46. Croup Cough what and how to treat.
47. Crossed Eyes.  They may not be crossed.
48. Daycare Inspection, Retirement inspection, and Doctor's probation state lists.
49. Delayed Development and ECI when your child is not progressing like others.
50. Diaper Rash different kinds and treatment.                    See: Diaper Baseball by Pres. Reagan
51. Differences in husband and wife ... money to discipline.
52. Discipline recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics?
53. Divorce Letter to parents and advice for helping children.
54. Downs Syndrome health evaluation and growth curves and evaluation.
55. Drug abuse what to do with the teen.
56. Dysuria Painful urination and what to do.
57. Ear Infection Inner ear ache information
58. Ear Infection Swimmer's ear
59. Ear Wax how to remove.
60. Ebola  personal view on it Aug2014
61. Enterovirus 68 Sept 2014 article
62. Eye Vision Chart to screen your child's vision
63. Eyes crossed.   Probably not.  See article.
64. Elbow injuries from pitching baseball.  How to prevent.
65. Encopresis Bowel Movement soiling of the underwear.
66. Failure.  should you let your kids fail?
67. Family Traditions and Crafts my ideas for yearly fun things to give harmony
68. Fever and Dosage Chart for Medications; Tylenol and Motrin
69. Fifth Disease What? All about it.
70. Flat Feet what it is and treatment
71. Flu incidence and types
72. Fluid in Ears information.
73. Games play board games
74. Giving Medications to Children hints.
75. Goose egg on head.  How to treat.
76. Habits like thumb sucking and the like.
77. Halloween Safety tips on safe holiday activity.
78. Head Injury the four misconceptions on symptoms of injury.
79. Head Lice How to treat
80. Head Molded from lying on it.  How to avoid and fix it.
81. Hearing what noise does to our hearing and damage to it.
82. Hand Foot Mouth Disease info
83. Heel Pain Sever's Disease teenager with heel pain.
84. Hives.  Causes and treatments.
85. Homework  Should you make them do it?
86. Hyperhydrosis sweaty feet and hands.
87. Immunizations Schedule for Children.
88. Ingrown toenail.  cause and treatment
89. Injuries how to treat trauma like sprained ankles, jammed finger, goose egg on head.
90. Internet Safety for children
91. Itchy Bottoms Causes and treatments.
92. Jaundice common problem in infancy (also see yellow skin .. 9-12 month olds)
93. Keratosis Pilaris small bumps on outer arms and legs
94. Knee Pain short info on it.
95. Larva Migrans (Visceral & Cutaneous) Caused from dog poo !
96. Learning Disabilities information
97. Letter to your child on their 21st birthday.

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

99. Moles and Melanoma article about moles and their changes.
100. Molluscum type of wart.  Treatment
101. Money teaching kids to handle money.
102. MRSA methicillin resistant staph aureus.
103. Multiplication how to learn the multiplication tables.
104. Nasty behavior with other child.  Show and touch or playing doctor.
105. Newborn Supplies what you need and not need for the baby.
106. Newborn Supplemental Screening for 30 other inborn metabolic disorders.
107. Night mares and night terrors what is the difference and what to do.
108. Noise loud noise and damage to hearing
109. Obesity.  A novel idea and plan
110. ObamaCare coments
111. Painful Urination What causes it and when to bring them in.
112. Parenting ten good things to do.
113. Pacifiers Do you use and when to start and stop
114. Permission Form a permission form to leave with others when leaving your child.
115. Picky Eater.  How to help your kids when they are fussy about what they eat.
116. Pinworms.   what is it and how to treat it.
117. Pink Eye is it pink eye or not?
118. Pneumonia Does the X-ray really tell us?
119. Poison Control where to look for poison control.
120. Poison Ivy what and how to prevent and treat.
121. Potty Training - My Advice; Article on difficult cases for those refusing.
122. Probiotics.  Which are good
123. Protein supplements for athletes.   NO.
124. Rabies information
125. Rash from sunlight on sun exposed areas. Rash small bumps on upper arms and legs.
126. Reader slow or even dyslexic ... my personal thoughts
127. Reflux of the stomach.   What it is and how to treat it.
128. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever  Diagnosis and treatment.
129. Rodent pests and pets.  (No they don't have rabies ... they have LCMV!)
130. Runny nose what, when to call, what to do.
131. Salt and iodine.  What should be in our diet.
132. School what should be the emphasis and proportions of special classes.
133. School Problem Form PDF  Form Doc File to evaluate your child's school difficulties.
134. Scoliosis, Scoliosis#2 , Scoliosis Success story information about scoliosis
135. Self Esteem.  How to build it up
136. Sibling Rivalry suggestions when new baby comes or 1 yr. old with older sibling
137. SIDS Sudden Infant Death prevention recommendations
138. Sinus information
139. Sling carrier for baby.   DON'T USE.
140. Snake Bite information.
141. Soiling underwear
142. Sore Throat Is it strep or not.
143. Speech development first 2 years.
144. Sprained ankle.  treatment
145. Stomach Aches in school age, what to look for and how to treat.
146. Strabismus  True or false crossed eyes.
147. Stuttering in the child. Long article on causes and treatment.
148. Sudden Cardiac Death in athletes
149. Sugars Different kinds
150. Sunscreen recommendations
151. Swimmer's Ear Treatment and prevention
152. Swimming Advice on programs for infants and children.
153. Sweat if your feet or hands sweat too much... see Iontophoresis for treatment.
154. Talking Back what do you do.
155. Tear Duct Obstruction causes infant's eyes to mat up each morning
156. Teeth when, what, why, care,
157. Teeth knocked out tooth care.
158. Teenhealth
159. Thrush information (the white stuff in babies mouth)
160. Thumb sucking and other habits.
161. Time Out and beyond  for discipline
162. Toe in (Pigeon toed) and toe out
163. Toe turn blue hair tourniquet around toe
164. Tonsillectomy when do we take out tonsils.
165. Traditions Family traditions.... why and suggestions
166. Trampolines safety information about use
167. Traveling to Countries when to get vaccinated to Hepatitis A and get Malaria Medicine.
168. Ulcers what really causes them and how we permanently cure them.
169. Umbilical cord infection? what to look for if infected.
170. Vaccinations to vaccinate or not. Risks/benefits.   Mercury/Thymersol Controversy
171. Vaccine Handouts by CDC   Vaccine Handouts by CDC
172. Vaccine Schedule for children;  
173. Vitamins, RDA and nutrition and minerals
174. Vomiting & Diarrhea information
175. Waking at Night what to do when they wake up at night as a toddler
176. Wart Treatment different than the doctor freezing it.
177. West Nile .... incidence
178. Why Study.   what to say when your teenagers say "Why am I learning this".... and "I don't need to know this."
179. Yellow Skin skin turns yellow around 9-12 months old.
180. Zika Feb2016 update

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Last updated: August 06, 2021