Creating a safe nursery room

Creating a safe nursery room

Designing a nursery room can be an exciting time for new parents, and the options for fun and stylish rooms are endless.  Most parents will be focused on color, furniture layout and choosing just the right personal touches.  Safety can play second fiddle, so when...
How to Get Your Kids to Brush and Floss

How to Get Your Kids to Brush and Floss

It’s a struggle familiar to many parents: getting children to brush their teeth and floss them, too. Here’s how to get them going. When it comes to dental care, many children give the task the brush off. They just don’t brush and floss often enough,...
3 Reasons Your Kids Need More Free Play

3 Reasons Your Kids Need More Free Play

The benefits of free play Think that six-year-old jumping in puddles is wasting time that would be better spent practising piano? Not really, it turns out. Since the late 1970s, research has illustrated a relationship between play and a multitude of useful skills....
Baby brain scans could predict autism before age 2

Baby brain scans could predict autism before age 2

The latest study is the first to show that it’s possible to detect autism in babies. Brain scans can be used to help detect autism in high-risk babies long before any symptoms emerge, according to a new U.S. study that could mark a “giant step forward” in autism...