Monday, January 25th, 2010
As parents, we want our kids to be normal if not exceptional. We want them to hit all their developmental milestones, to be academically sound, to have a good core social group, to be happy and healthy.Included in that “normalcy” for approximately 6 million families each year is the diagnosis of head lice……and the anxiety that comes along with it for both child and parent/caregiver.I attended a conference this past week in San Antonio, TX (ECRM) in which we met with…Friday, January 15th, 2010
If you looked at the label of a food or drink you were preparing to give your child and saw dihydrogen monoxide as an ingredient, what would you do? What if something contained phenylalanine, glutamic acid or arginine? As a mom, I’d have no problem giving my children anything with any of those ingredients – they are the scientific names for water (H2O) and common amino acids, the building blocks for all proteins. The point is that even basic elements of…