Boosting Safety Awareness »
From Inform | 2009-07-02 14:30:45
The variety of booster seats available may shock some parents, who may have only seen the simple seats pads used to "lift" the child up to fit into the adult-sized seatbelt. Today\'s booster seats offer the option of a high back, such as the Graco TurboBooster SafeSeat, or no back, like Evenflo Big Kid AMP No Back Booster Car Seat. The high-back booster seats are useful in cars with seats that lack headrests, and so help give the child additional head and neck support. Many high-back booster seats are ...
Transitioning from Purees to Solids »
From Inform | 2009-07-02 14:30:45
Like many storebought products, baby food is easy to make from scratch. It is cost-efficient and allows you to completely monitor what goes into your baby\'s body. Being able to control texture is also a benefit of homemade baby food. As babies grow, it is convenient to be able to create thicker, chunkier purees that will help complete the transition into solid food. The first type of baby food that you will probably want to make will be a thin puree, using either water or breast milk to create ...
Getting Past the "No!" »
From Inform | 2009-07-02 14:30:45
All of a sudden, your baby can talk. And what’s little Sally saying the most? “NO!” That’s right-she’s in the terrible twos. This stage is also known as negativism, and with good reason. To exhausted and exasperated parents, it can feel like a constant whirlwind of tantrums. The toddler is just beginning to develop a small sense of self, and with this comes wants and ideas-and they’re not happy at Mom and Dad for setting limits. There are some coping mechanisms for parents who feel like ...
U.S. parents think twice about sending kids to camp »
From Reuters US Online Report Top News | 2009-07-03 14:49:48
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Since its opening last week, camp counselors at New Jersey's Liberty Lake Day Camp disinfect door knobs, take the temperatures of children as they arrive and remind the campers not to share canned sodas. Many of the 12,000-plus summer camps in the United States are ramping up their efforts to guard against the spread of the new H1N1 swine flu, which has caused the first pandemic of the 21st century. While H1N1 influenza has caused mild symptoms that go away without medication in most patients ...
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