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Day #4: Be Smart about Daycare

DrReynolds — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:09:51 +0000

Up front, I will admit my bias… I advocate children staying home with one or both parents as much as possible until they are school-aged. You just cannot find anyone, no matter how much money you spend, that is more invested in your child’s safety, education, discipline, and overall health & well being than YOU. [...]

Day #3: Your Kids are what YOU Eat

DrReynolds — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:41:08 +0000

Now that you are not sitting in front of the stupid box 5 hours a day, you should have some free time on your hands. Let me suggest that you use some of that time to think a little bit about what you feed your children. Consider these FACTS: Childhood Obesity has tripled in the [...]

Generic Infant Formula

DrReynolds — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:44:35 +0000

The goal of this page is not to debate formula versus breast milk. That debate is over and there is just no comparison between the two. However, there are plenty of people that, either by choice or necessity, decide to formula feed their babies. This is not for me to judge. In fact our second [...]

Day # 2: Learn to Live Within Your Means

DrReynolds — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:42:57 +0000

This may seem like a strange topic when we are considering the health of our children. However, for a variety of reasons, children tend to suffer a great deal from the financial perils of their parents. I have read all kinds of books on the subject and I have talked with many “financial experts.” When [...]

Day #1: Sell Your TV

DrReynolds — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:03:51 +0000

Consider the following: Several European countries forbid or severely curtail advertising to children; in the United States, on the other hand, selling to children is simply “business as usual.” The average young person views more than 3000 ads per day on television (TV), on the Internet, on billboards, and in magazines. Increasingly, advertisers are targeting [...]