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Bedwetting: Tips for Sleeping Away from Home
Bedwetting: It’s more common than most kids, or their parents, think. As many as one child in five wets the bed at night -- so your child is far from alone. Still, coping with the fear of bedwetting -- also called nocturnal enuresis -- can be hard on kids when they’re away from home. But your child
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Nighttime Routines That Can Lead to Dry Nights
When your child wets the bed, nights can be filled with anxiety and upset. You’re not looking forward to washing yet another set of sheets, and your child hates waking in the morning feeling embarrassed and ashamed. Bedwetting, or nocturnal enuresis, doesn’t have to ruin your and your child’s evenin
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6 Ways Your Teen Is Playing You
Teenagers know how to push their parents' buttons. Instinctively, they come with an arsenal of tools to get what they want, avoid getting into trouble, or cause their parents to blow a fuse out of frustration. How do you prepare to parent all of that? There are smart ways to counteract the manipulat
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Work With Your Child's Personality
Active, persistent, intense, sensitive. Whether we're adults, teens, or even toddlers, we're each born with our own emotional style, or temperament. Our temperament affects our behavior, personality, and even our health. If you want to encourage your kids to eat better and exercise more, it's a good
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Reduce Teen Screen Time Without Stress
As the parent of a teen, you know that it's not easy for teens growing up in today's media-saturated world. Although kids share the same concerns about school, friends, and fitting in as you did at the same age, today's teens are never far from their cell phones, computers, TVs, or video game consol
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FIT Connection for Parents: Food
In her 25 years as a dietitian working with families, Linda Bartholomay sees every day how the four parts of the FIT Platform -- FOOD, MOVE, RECHARGE, and MOOD -- all work together for overall good health. "If one of the four areas addressed in the FIT Platform is out of control or unhealthy, it's r
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FIT Connection: Mood’s Role in Health
"Sometimes we arbitrarily, artificially separate emotional well-being from physical well-being," says David Ermer, MD, child psychiatrist with Sanford Health, WebMD's FIT educational partner. "They are intimately intertwined. Being positive, valuing yourself, respecting yourself, and having good sel
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FIT Connection: The Role of Move
Regular physical activity is a cornerstone of a healthy lifestyle and overall fitness. That's why MOVE is one of the four parts of the FIT Platform along with FOOD, MOOD, and RECHARGE. When families work together on all four of these areas, everyone's health improves. You already know how regular ac
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Understanding the FIT Platform
Being fit is something we all aspire to -- both for ourselves and our children. But what does it mean to be fit? Does it mean walking a mile every day? Having salad for lunch? Staying thin enough to fit into last year's bathing suit? Many people think that eating a balanced diet and getting regular
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Can Toddlers Be Overweight?
You may find it hard to believe, but even toddlers and preschoolers can be overweight. And you can't always rely on yourself as a parent to recognize it. It's hard to tell whether a child is a healthy weight just by looking. Parents, and even some doctors, may think a healthy-weight child is underwe
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