Cries
Parents are often given conflicting advice about whether to apply a “scheduled” approach to baby care, or follow their infants’ demands. A recent study looked at the impact of different parenting approaches on infant crying and sleeping.
Sexuality
Puberty is the transition between being children and becoming teenagers. Emotions are in a rollercoaster, and a lot of physical and psychological changes shake up children between the ages of 9 and 12 years.
Sexuality
Out with the cars and dinosaurs, your son prefers princess costumes, dolls and fairies? Does your child’s behaviour worry you? This type of reaction is normal there is no need to panic.
Difference and Handicaps
Every child is unique. But sometimes, due to chance or genetics, some of them are downright exceptional.
Contagious Diseases
The name "5th disease" derives from its historical classification as the fifth of the classical childhood skin rashes, after measles, scarlet fever, rubella and Duke's disease.
Infections, Diseases and Booboos
When you want an accurate measurement, which temperature measurement technique should you turn to and which thermometer should you buy? Let’s demystify the whole thing.
Sexuality
This question will inevitably come up. Curious and intrigued, your child will want to know everything about how babies are made. Here's how to broach the subject with him.
Language
Cries and shrieks are the first signs that your baby wants to communicate. Newborns quickly understand that the sounds they make will cause a reaction from the people around them.
Infections, Diseases and Booboos
Did you know that you should never rub a frostbite, nor put it in snow or water (cold or hot)? When it's as cold as it’s been recently, we all need advice!
Contagious Diseases
In Canada, the flu season normally extends from November to April, and can affect 10 to 25% of the population every year.
Contagious Diseases
Whooping cough is the most frequently reported vaccine-preventable disease in Canada.
Contagious Diseases
Scarlet fever is different from other early childhood diseases because it is not caused by a virus, but rather by a bacteria, the group A streptococcus.
