Si Live – Ann Marie Barron
Does your child cough often, especially when waking or going to sleep? It might be asthma — a chronic respiratory disease that forms a barrier between your lungs and the air your body needs.
Medical X-Press – Staff Writer
Despite evidence that helmets are critical to preventing head injuries, not all children wear them while biking, skateboarding and riding scooters, a new national poll finds. Eighteen percent of parents say their child never wears a helmet on a bike ride, and even more say their kids skip helmets on a skateboard (58 percent) and scooter (61 percent), suggests the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health at the University of Michigan.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-05-parents-child-helmet-bike.html
Cleveland – Morgan Paskert
Summer vacation — running through the sprinkler, popsicles on the porch … three months of hearing your kids whine, “Mom, I’m bored!” Enter summer day camp, a solution both for parents in need of supplemental childcare and kids seeking a little structured fun. Day camps typically run during traditional work and school hours, aligning with a child’s daily routine.
The Herald – Paul Schoenfeld
In some children, for a variety of reasons, their smoke detectors go off frequently and are extremely sensitive. These youngsters have no idea what they are feeling or why they are feeling it, but they generally discharge this tension behaviorally — we know it as having a fit — which can include screaming, pounding the floor, hitting a sibling or kicking a chair.
https://www.heraldnet.com/life/five-steps-to-teach-a-spirited-child-to-control-her-behavior/
The Chronicle Herald – Niki Jabbour
The new book, Gardening with Emma, written by 13-year-old Emma Biggs and her dad Steven Biggs is a kid-to-kid guide packed with fun and easy ways to get kids outside and in the garden. As a garden writer who specializes in growing unique plants like figs and lemons in Canada, Steven introduced his three kids to the garden when they were very young.