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How To Help Your Daughter Eat Healthy On A Play Date

By: Joanna Dolgoff, MD. Play dates are a great way for your daughter to interact with other children, learn to share, build social skills, and most of all, have fun! But what happens when your overweight daughter comes home to tell you about the fried Oreos or fast food snack she consumed at her friend’s house? It [...]

Shabby Apple Dress Giveaway

With Spring and the Easter holiday right around the corner, this is the perfect time to visit Shabby Apple Boutique for some truly unique and adorable designs for girls ages toddler through teen. Their dresses are trendy, affordable, and they have something that many girls can appreciate – a great eye for fashion! WIN a “Creamsicle” [...]

Sending Your Daughter to College? Get Organized and Be Prepared

By: Marie Carr. Congratulations, your daughter has been accepted into college! Now, as parents, there are many things that you need to do. Being informed, prepared and organized makes a world of difference. 8 Essential Things To Get Parents Started: 1. Create a filing system. Purchase and label folders such as: Bank Accounts, College Brochures, Finances, Housing, Meal [...]

Rock-a-Thigh Baby: Socks that Rock for Your Tot!

Reviewed by: Elizabeth Donovan, M.A. In case you haven’t noticed, 80’s fashion is making a BIG comeback. Leggings, day-glow outfits, skinny jeans, and over-sized belted shirts are all the rage among girls everywhere. And thankfully, the legging-sock craze has outdone their 80’s counterparts with a cute, practical, fashionable, and completely updated look for toddler girls: thigh-high [...]

Seven Brave Women by Betsy Hearne

Reviewed by author, Pam Allyn. Recently, March was declared National Women’s History Month in the United States. In this spirit, Seven Brave Women celebrates the accomplishments of seven women in different generations of the author’s family. Though so much of history is discussed through the lens of war, Hearne shows how seven brave women in [...]

Best Breast Pumps for Busy Moms

By: Elizabeth Donovan, M.A. Nursing a newborn takes time, energy, and lots of sleepless nights. And though we simply adore our little bundles of joy, for many moms, there comes a time when it’s time to go back to work. Whether it’s by choice or out of necessity, going back to work is often a difficult [...]

Is Your Daughter A “Carb-etarian”?

By: Joanna Dolgoff, MD. It is commonly believed that a vegetarian diet is a healthy diet. And that is usually true, but not always. Consider the mother who recently told me that her child had decided to become a vegetarian. As she described his diet, I realized that he did not eat a single fruit or [...]

Solving Sibling Strife

By: Jody Johnston Pawel, LSW, CFLE. Some parents “let kids work it out” by doing nothing, but if the children use insults, humiliation, or physically duke it out, then it will only make matters worse! Some parents will dive into the action and solve problems for their children. While this may bring peace and order quickly, it [...]

Healthy Girls for Life: Breakfast – Setting Your Daughter Up for Success

By: Linda Miner RNC, CHN, CMTA. Imagine building a house without a foundation. It may stay standing for awhile, but eventually it will start to shift and crack and eventually collapse. Starting the day with a healthy breakfast should be considered as important to your body as a solid foundation is to a house. [...]

The Quest For A Thin Baby Girl: How Far Some Parents Will Go?

By: Joanna Dolgoff, MD. First there was the airbrushing of babies in magazines and now parents are starving newborns so they don’t become “fat babies”. What is this country coming to? We all know that being overweight is unhealthy and can put a person at risk for medical illness. Being too thin, however, is also not healthy [...]