Healthy Daycare Habits for Back-to-School: 3 Simple Tips
Back-to-school season is here, and healthy daycare habits become more important as families settle back into daycare routines. Lunches are being packed, drop-offs feel rushed again, and kids are adjusting to earlier mornings, new classrooms, shared toys, and more close contact with other children. If your child attends daycare, you already know what often comes […]
Childhood Eczema Rates Are Climbing: What Parents Should Know
This month marks the one-year anniversary of my TEDx talk, “Why Childhood Eczema Rates Are a Universal Alarm.” When I first prepared for that talk, I knew I wanted to speak about eczema. But not just eczema as an itchy skin condition. I wanted to talk about eczema as a signal. A signal that children’s […]
Concussion Support Guide for Kids: How to Prepare for Sports
By mid-August, back-to-school season is in full swing, and so are fall sports. This concussion support guide helps parents know what to do if a child experiences a possible concussion and how to support recovery alongside appropriate medical care. Football, soccer, volleyball, cheer, cross country, and other preseason practices are ramping up. Kids are adjusting […]
Multivitamin for Kids and Adults: How to Find a High Quality Option
A multivitamin for kids and adults provides a broad base of essential vitamins and minerals to help support overall health and wellness. Taking one daily is a simple way to help fill common nutrient gaps and complement a balanced diet. I like to think of supplements, especially multivitamins, as “nutritional insurance.” Food is always the […]
Back-to-school Checklist: Start the School Year Strong
Summer is nearly over, and it’s time to start getting your back-to-school checklist together. For some families, that means sending a child off to college. For others, it means getting ready for elementary school, middle school, or high school. Regardless of what year of school your child is beginning, now is the perfect time to […]
Foodborne Illness Prevention: Simple Ways To Protect Your Family
Foodborne illness prevention becomes especially important during the summer months. By late July, most of us have been to a cookout, picnic, pool party, or summer gathering where the food table looked a little questionable. (Think potato salad sitting in the sun.) Everyone is grazing over the course of a few hours, and nobody is […]
Summer Sleep Support for Kids: How to Use Magnesium and GABA
Summer sleep support for kids can be challenging when routines change, bedtime gets pushed later, and busy days lead to overtired little bodies. Later sunsets, travel, sleepovers, camps, popsicles after dinner, evening sports, and long days outside can all make the season feel special—but they can also make restful nights harder to achieve. Creating healthy […]
When Eczema Keeps Your Child Up: How to Stop the Scratching
When eczema keeps your child up at night, it affects far more than just their skin. Unfortunately, this is a scenario I’ve seen play out far too many times in my twenty years of pediatrics. A child with eczema can’t sleep because the itching is relentless. They wake up multiple times throughout the night, scratching, […]
Tick Prevention for Kids: What Parents Need to Know This Summer
Tick prevention for kids is especially important this year as tick activity continues to increase across many parts of the country. According to the CDC, emergency room visits for tick bites are higher than normal in many parts of the country. In all regions except the South Central United States, weekly rates of ER visits […]
Simple Healthy Fourth of July Food Swaps for Families
There’s nothing more American than grilling outside on the Fourth of July, and healthy Fourth of July food swaps can make your celebration both fun and nourishing. And let’s be honest… having a hot dog at a cookout is basically part of the celebration. 😉 But one thing I always encourage families to think about […]
