It’s not just decorations and presents. Stress, anxiety, injury and illness are all indicators that the holidays are here. Often, it’s the more mundane or seemingly benign aspects of our lives that can be the most dangerous. Take stairs, for instance. People die from stair injuries every year, and tens of thousands of children in Canada will end up in the Emergency Room as the result of a fall down a … [Read more...]
Reading the ingredients off the wrapper of your kid’s favourite snack food can be like trying to decipher a foreign language. The difference is, by now most of us know which words are naughty and which words are nice. The naughty words are the ones that represent the fillers and the additives, the preservatives and the flavour enhancers—words like “partially hydrogenated oil,” “high-fructose corn syrup,” “acesulfam,” and … [Read more...]
As a parent, moderation is the key with so many things. TV, screen time, snacks—kids love them, want them, need them, and don’t really care if they aren’t good for them. Just like us and coffee. Halloween, though, isn’t a great time for moderation. It’s the only time of the year that kids take ownership of a big, jolly bag of candy and won’t let go. We could just throw up our hands and say Go for it, but we shouldn’t and here’s … [Read more...]
As a nation, we’re getting heavier with each passing year, and the health effects of obesity—from depression to heart attacks to some forms of cancer—are on the rise, too. So what do we do? Well, not perhaps what you might think. New studies, such as those led by Dr. Karen Morrison at McMaster University in Ontario, are changing the way we view obesity. They’re also challenging some central ideas about … [Read more...]
Transitioning into "school mode" can be challenging for kids who’ve suddenly said goodbye freedom, hello homework. But don’t wait for that first report card to find out they’ve fallen behind… “Nip problems in the bud,” says Nick Whitehead, president and founder of Oxford Learning. What to watch for: Complaining – If your child is suddenly complaining about a teacher or doesn’t want to go to school (“I don’t feel … [Read more...]
Human beings, like other animals, have a considerable stake in the wellbeing of their offspring. When children are very young, a great deal of time and effort is invested in keeping them safe. Infants are kept close by and strangers are treated with certain wariness. The tendency to be guarded may become exaggerated or persist too long as a child grows up. Such a parent is said to be “overprotective.” There are a number of ways such a … [Read more...]
Dr. Anatoly Belilovsky, a pediatrician in New York, told me that he felt Alexander the Great could be the poster boy for ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). Alexander was peripatetic to a fault (to put it politely): rangy, difficult, known to have poor interpersonal relationships and poor conflict resolution (again, putting it politely). He was also very successful, hence the “Great,” within a field of work that … [Read more...]
Do kids need multivitamins? Seems like an easy question, doesn’t it. And, whether or not you give supplements to your kids, the answer for some might be yes, but this is a much more fraught topic than it may appear at first blush. A good question to ask is not about your kids, but about you: do you take vitamin supplements? If not, why not? One reason might be that you aren’t growing anymore, at least … [Read more...]
“Living with children is a process during which you just try to keep your eyes open and think on your feet.” –Jesse Frayne, Great Food for Happy Kids There is a lot of information out there on kids’ health—some of it very good, and a lot of it quite kooky. It doesn’t help that the kookier ideas are the ones that sell more copies and get more press. We like drama and miracle cures, so the … [Read more...]
Summertime is the season for being outside, riding bikes, playing Frisbee and flying kites. It’s about camping excursions, swimming lessons, baseball games and canoeing adventures. Well, maybe in theory at least… In reality a survey by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario found the majority of kids will be missing out on physical activity this summer, as parents scramble to find child … [Read more...]
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