It starts out with your child being tired and looking a little under the weather. But it’s the holiday season so you chalk it up to the extra activity and some richer foods than normal. Soon, though, you realize what’s really happening. What’s happening is your child is sick and tomorrow is the ‘big day’. While we’d prefer not to have to deal with it, the reality is most families face illness during a major holiday at some point in time. Given the right attitude and a good ‘Plan B’, you can still make holiday memories. Here are a few tips on celebrating through (and in spite of) varying degrees of illness:
We often take it for granted that our children see as well as we do. This may not be the case if your child has a lazy eye. Normal vision develops early in life when the brain learns to fuse the images from both the left and right eye forming a single image, what is referred to as binocularity. Lazy eye or amblyopia, on the other hand, is a reduction in vision that results from abnormal visual development in infancy and early childhood. Amblyopia is the leading cause of decreased vision among children affecting 2 to 3 per cent of the population.
The latest research indicates healthy child development hinges in part on healthy teeth. It’s time we made better dental care a national public health priority. Quick quiz: What’s the No. 1 chronic infectious disease in North America for children ages five and younger? If you answered measles, chicken pox, strep throat or flu, you’d be close but wrong. The correct answer is Early Childhood Caries (ECC).
I am from the Prairies; a total land lover. I took swimming lessons as a child, but hated to get my face wet. The best I could do was dog paddle. Fast forward 25 years. I am the mother of my beautiful daughter, Natalie. Despite my own shortcomings in the water, I realize swimming is a “life skill”. So I took my daughter to mom and infant swim classes.
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