Sugarland Express
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New Guidelines Issued for Treatment of Children’s Ear InfectionsAntibiotic Resistance Forces Change in Old Drug Regimen
The throbbing pain, the crying, the sleepless nights — the symptoms of ear infection affect 60 to 70...
Are Girls With ADHD Slipping Through the Cracks?Girls May Face Greater Social Impairment Than Boys, ADHD Survey Shows
Two children, a boy and a girl. Although their behavior looks very different, they have both been di...
Landmark Survey Finds Childbirth Interventions Vexing: First national survey of its kind shows mothers hi-tech, but happy
"She huffed, and she puffed, and she huffed, and she puffed, and finally, out came a perfect little ...
EATING OUT IN THE CITY - New York's Theme Restaurants
As you head into New York City this holiday season to see the tree or catch a show, you may want to ...
Finding the Right Camp
Despite the chill in the air, the time has come to consider where your children will be spending the...
Is Your Child Ready for Overnight Camp?
So, just when is your child ready for overnight camp? Many children are ready by age 6, and most who...
Wander in Hershey's Winter and Bear Wonderlands
As the search either begins or continues for "that special something" for "that special someone", th...
Go for the Gold! LAKE PLACID
Some places are fondly remembered by the heart and engaged to the soul long after the bags are unpac...
Keelin’s Wish: To Play with Her Family
Five-year old Keelin Burns of Pearl River is blind. Her ability to talk is limited, and she needs he...
Help needed!
If you're between 14 and 80-something years old — and if you're reading this, the chances are you ju...
Queens Takes the ‘LEAP’
Ila Lane Gross and Alice Krieger are New Yorkers, friends, educators, and fellow artists who recogni...
Art and the Stars Above the Hudson
Tucked into the hillside along the river in Yonkers, the Hudson River Museum has been showing art, h...
Hormoans and Groans … Naturally!
These are confusing times for women in their years preceding or at menopause, whose total population...
Happy Hour, kid style
Pre-kids, happy hour means two-for-one drinks; post-kids, it’s that 15 minutes between them falling ...
Making Holiday Memories, Digitally
In most families, taking photos at the holidays is as much a tradition as baking and wrapping packag...
Update: 9/11 Pregnancy Study On Track
Using Ground Zero and its surrounding areas as their Petrie dish, a team of Columbia University rese...
MISSING KIDS: The number is down — but keeping your guard up is essential, experts stress
It's not uncommon for a pair of similar news stories to touch off a frenzy of reporting, giving the ...
Cut, Paste — and hand it in-STEALING FROM THE WEBI
The advent of personal computers and the Internet have made the writing of papers and doing research...
How Safe is Your Child’s Playground? Many city playgrounds fail safety test
Playgrounds are children’s havens, where they can run and jump, howl and shout, and do what they do ...
Smallpox shots for kids? Not yet, experts advise
In today’s world, parents are faced with protecting their children from growing threats which includ...
THERE’S A BABY WAITING FOR YOU! Westchester Parents on International Adoption
“My daughter is Chinese. She will grow up as an American but her heritage is Chinese and I want her ...
Building strong bones
The Body Composition Unit at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center's Obesity Research Center is curre...
New Contraceptive With Less Side Effects
A new oral contraceptive, recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and available b...
SPECIAL ED: Is Your Child A Candidate?A guide for parents
Max R. is a fourth grader with curly brown hair, lots of freckles and a passion for soccer. He has a...
Our kids 'in the middle of a calcium crisis'
Calcium is a mineral essential for building healthy bones, including the jawbone, and teeth. It can ...
Dating Again: Where Do the Kids Fit In?
The excitement of developing new relationships with men was somehow dampened by the sense that I was...
It Can Still Be A Dog’s Life...
New studies suggest that pet ownership may actually protect against allergies...
It Can Still Be A Dog’s Life …
New studies suggest that pet ownership may actually protect against allergies and asthma...
Permanent Birth Control: New methods on the way
Women in 2002 have a growing number of contraceptive options to choose from — old standards like the...
Drink Your Milk! Our kids “in the middle of a calcium crisis”
Calcium is a mineral essential for building healthy bones, including the jawbone, and teeth. It can ...
The finger, the door, and the shield
A child's scream from another room raises the hair on the neck of any parent. To protect young finge...
Mono — not just a “teen disease”
When she was 16 years old, Stephanie Williams started feeling unusually tired and achy. A couple of ...
From Gentlemen’s Farm to Family Destination
October means pumpkins and colored leaves and tractor parties — particularly at Muscoot Farm, locate...
Moving Image: An eye to many screens
Films enjoy — or suffer from — a distinction no other technology or art does: The idea that audience...
Personalized kids' music
Ingrid Harding is a teacher and a mom who finally got fed up with the limited selection of children'...
Figaro! Figaro! Freddy!With voices high and energy boundless, New York City kids are often an inva
It's a Sunday afternoon at the DiCapo Opera Theatre on East 76th Street, and the sold-out crowd grow...
Pulling all the Right Strings
Puppetworks is currently performing what it calls an ‘authentic’ fairy tale, The Sleeping Beauty. Th...
From the whole world — to one
Ethnic diversity is a little like art — you can acknowledge it or you can ignore it. But if you're ...
The moms (and best friends) behind Reading Rainbow
Nicole Silver and Orly Wiseman have their desks positioned within firing range of each other, but as...
The classics, and more, at new theater for kids
New York City is teeming with opportunities to take children to the theater. Some are big, expensive...
The symbol of hands
The human hand is a symbol for many things, not the least of which are unity and support. You're On!...
Beware of Noisy Toys!
Any time you're buying toys for your children or for other kids, take note that toy noises may be ha...
Windy, wonderful city for kids: Chicago
Some families take trips to explore local history, some to play on a beach, some to pursue a sport. ...
Providence Sparkles! Catch WaterFire, April-October
Touring around other cities can sometimes feel achingly familiar. The downtown revitalization projec...
Travel backto the old frontier
Outside historic Staunton, Virginia is the Museum of American Frontier Culture, a small, completely ...
“Protecting our kids and giving them a voice” Guidelines for NYC classrooms
Like December 7, June 6 and November 22, September 11 won't be allowed to come and go unnoticed anym...
Seat belt or booster seat?The 5-Step Test
I recently completed an 8-hour Car Seat Inspector Training course — and learned that, even though yo...
Credit Cards: the future trap
Did you know that 80 percent of consumers do not understand how the grace period on a credit card wo...
Ritalin. Zoloft. Prozac:
Local battle highlights skyrocketing rates of ADD/ADHD and depression drug use in children....
How To Rebuild Trust After It's Broken: Life After Divorce
Since most divorces occur after a major breakdown in trust and respect, it is not surprising that tw...
Live, on stage! The Tradition of TADA!
New York is show biz, and kids with an interest in working in the theater couldn't possibly ask to l...
Temper Tantrums — Mine
I never thought I had a temper. I never even really ever got angry. I didn’t have these explosive em...
News from the American Academy of Pediatrics:
Tics are more common in children than previously thought....
To remove, or not to remove?
It has been thought that removal of the tonsils really benefits children with recurring throat infe...
Elementary School Tours: How to make the most of them
You’ve cleared your calendar for two hours on Tuesday morning. Several other such appointments have ...
Georgia’s Treasured “Golden Isles”
Georgia’s meandering coastline is bejeweled with barrier islands that beg to be explored. Four fasci...
Coasting Through the Carolinas
From the Outer Banks of North Carolina to Hilton Head Island in South Carolina, the coastal region o...
Picture Book Perfect! : The Berkshires
Fall in the Berkshires is known as ‘leaf peeping time’, when tourists tie up local roads for miles, ...
Should Your Child Wear Computer Glasses?
If your kids spend hours in front of a computer screen, they could be at risk of developing vision p...
Winterize! (before the snow falls)
My husband and I bought an 83-year-old home in the spring of 1993. It was our dream house, and every...
Boston — When Skies are Blue
On our recent trip to Boston, we prayed for rain. No, the city is not besieged by a drought, but the...
When your child bleeds excessively : Von Willebrand Disease
A report on Von Willebrand Disease —A Little Known Bleeding Disorder ...
