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TV and Kids: How to Cut Screen Time
Do your school-aged kids spend much of their free time in front of a TV, computer monitor, or other type of screen? If so, you're not alone. Children's overall screen time has more than doubled since 1999 to more than seven hours a day. There are many reasons for parents to be concerned. Among them,
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Toy Guns: Do They Lead to Real-Life Violence?
Tammy Worth and her husband were determined not to let their two boys, now 7 and 5 years old, play with toy guns or other pretend weapons. "When they were little, we never got them water guns, and we'd avoid buying toy sets with guns," says Worth, 36, a journalist in Blue Springs, Mo. "We thought it
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What Can Parents Do About Antibiotic Overuse?
In every issue of WebMD the Magazine, we ask our experts to answer readers' questions about a wide range of topics. In our January-February 2012 issue, we asked WebMD children's health expert, Roy Benaroch, MD, how parents can help with the problem of antibiotic overuse. Q: I’m worried that kids --
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Mom, Dad, Do I Look Fat?
When your child is just starting school, you may imagine that worries about her body size and shape will come with the territory later, in her teen years. But it turns out that your young child may already be worried. Kids as young as 5, 6, and 7 years old can be worried about their weight, accordin
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Use Your Mind for Fit Behavior Change
It's easy to say, "Eat right and get more exercise." But successfully changing behavior -- your own or your children's -- takes planning, persistence, and patience. If it were easy, we'd all be fit, trim, never smoke, and rarely drink. Yet it’s within your reach to build healthy habits to prevent or
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Finding Your Child's Inner Athlete
Tech and TV temptations, no friends to play with, worries about fitting in -- in today's world, there are plenty of distractions and challenges that feed a couch-potato lifestyle. And if children don’t view themselves as athletic or physically active, it can be even more difficult to get them moving
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Protecting Your Baby From Other People's Germs
When you have an infant, keeping him or her away from germ hazards is hard enough -- the dirt, the dog's water bowl, the surface of a public changing table. But there's one potential source of germs that's a lot harder to control: people. Specifically, the swarms of family, friends and complete stra
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Diapering Baby the Healthy Way
Diaper changes can be an ugly business. Even when your baby or toddler is at her most cooperative, it can be gross. And when she’s squirming, arching her back, screaming and flailing her limbs, a diaper change can get awfully messy very fast. So what’s the most sanitary way to change a diaper? How c
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Keeping Baby Healthy: Protection From Germs at Home
Once you become a parent, the world seems a filthy, germ-ridden place. You can’t look at a doorknob or a waiting room magazine without worrying about the microscopic enemies squirming invisibly on the surface. Meanwhile, your baby has different ideas. “In the first few years of life, babies put ever
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Catching Germs at School and in Sports
Moms know it’s hard enough to keep kids away from germs when they’re at home. But during school hours, your little ones come across all different kinds of germ-filled situations. So how do you go about teaching your kids to avoid germs during the school day, or while they’re playing sports afterward
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