2013

With each year’s first chill in the air, parents rush to stock up on cold medicine, tissues, and vitamin supplements. But while most moms and dads are very familiar with colds and the flu, few of them are aware of another common and potentially life-threatening winter-season virus, RSV (respiratory syncytial virus), which leads to hospitalizations for 75,000 to 125,000 children in the U.S. each year.

So where can families turn to help provide the right environment for character development? Families can go to camp

As mothers and fathers, we all want what is best for our baby. In this day and age it is hard to always know exactly what that is. When it comes to SIDS, Back to Sleep and tummy time, there are a few key things you need to know.

Building on ten years of continuous quality improvement for early care and education (ECE) programs, the Dept. of Public Welfare, Office of Child Development and Early Learning, announced in September 2012 that a new initiative had been created to strengthen and improve the existing Keystone STARS Program.

With the economic uncertainty and the threat of the fiscal cliff looming paired with the high unemployment rate, parents are worried about not having gifts, vacations, special foods, etc. Therapist, author and positive living expert, Diane Lang, discusses signs that your child/teen may be stressed or worried and offers 20 tips on how to talk with kids about tough economic times to decrease stress and worry in your children.

Psychologist and former teacher offers tips that empower parents when meeting with your child’s teacher.

A brilliant student need not be naturally brilliant. A brilliant student is simply a student who studies brilliantly, cooperating with how his or her brain naturally works, not working against it. Every student can be a brilliant student in his own way if he learns to do these five things.