*Flashback Friday*

*This post originally appeared on The PediaBlog on March 22, 2017.   “Ask Us Anything”   My 6-year-old daughter is a highly sensitive person. She cries at the drop of a hat over every little thing. I have a hard time disciplining her because if I...

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  My son is twelve and in full-on puberty. Despite our best attempts, he keeps getting acne on his face. It shows up in his T-zone and cheeks near his hairline. He washes his face twice a day, his hair once a day and blots the oil from his skin mid-day with...

*Flashback Friday*

This post originally appeared on The PediaBlog on October 26, 2015.   Ask Us Anything   A mother emails: My son had a liver transplant, and is now immune-suppressed by his anti-rejection medication. He has been instructed to only receive the flu injection...

Ask Us Anything – Water Safety

  A mother writes: Thank you for writing about water safety this week. We own a pool and I notice that when my kids have their friends over to swim, some of them haven’t had much formal swim lessons and so they aren’t very good swimmers. Others who...

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“Leaves of three, let them be.”   Can poison ivy be passed on from person to person? I have read online that once you have broken out with it, it isn’t contagious to other people, but people still freak out when they hear that someone they know has...