Regular well-child examinations by your child’s doctor are essential to keep your child healthy and up-to-date on immunizations against many dangerous childhood diseases. A checkup also gives your child’s doctor an opportunity to talk to you about developmental and safety issues and gives you an opportunity to ask any questions you might have about your child’s overall health.
Every step a child takes toward learning to read leads to another. Bit by bit, the child builds the knowledge that is necessary for being a reader. Over their first 6 years, most children
Five-year-olds typically stay dry all night, with only occasional nighttime mishaps. Some children, though, continue to wet the bed at night; the condition affects 10 to 13 percent of children over the age of 5. Boys — especially those with a family history of bed-wetting — are more commonly afflicted with this problem.
In order for your child to stay dry all night, her brain must be able to keep a full bladder from emptying while she’s sleeping or a signal from her bladder must be strong enough to wake her up to use the toilet. Some children take longer to get to this point than others.
National 5 A Day Week has an important goal, getting people to eat 5 or more servings of fruits and vegetables every day.
Meeting this goal will help you stay within the Food Guide Pyramid guidelines of eating 3-5 servings of vegetables and 2-4 servings of fruit.
But how do you get kids to eat more fruits and vegetables, especially when they may only want to eat chicken nuggets and french fries and you are not supposed to force kids to ‘clean their plate’ or make meals a power struggle?
All children have fears at some point in their life and it is usually considered to be a normal part of development. These fears are only abnormal if they are persistent or keep the child overly preoccupied with the subject that is feared, so that it interferes with normal activities, if the child can not be reassured or distracted away from the fear (becoming a phobia), or if it is an irrational fear. Whether or not a fear is irrational depends on a child’s age and developmental level.