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Elementary school kids

  • Feeding picky eaters

    “You just don’t appreciate a picky eater until you have one. ” —Overheard at Dr. Lai’s dinner table. Picky eaters come in two major varieties. One kind is the child who eats the…

  • School backpack too heavy?

    Just in time for the fall sales, physical therapist Dr. Deborah Stack returns to give us the low-down on backpacks. ———————————- Believe it or not, there are only a few weeks left…

  • Overhauling the sports snack stand

    As you stand watching your budding baseball star at his five o’clock practice, the rest of your kids start to whine. “Please, please, please,” they say. “Can we go to the snack…

  • Understanding four-year-olds

      A favorite pediatrician party game is to guess the age of a child by observing his skills and body habitus. Most people are stumped when it comes to differentiating between preschoolers.…

  • Seeing is not always believing

    Yesterday morning we were aghast to read medical misinformation in the print edition of our local newspaper. Aghast, because we were the pediatricians interviewed for the content of a summer time tips article.…

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