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Back to School: Helping Your Kids Avoid Sports Injuries

Now that school is back in session, parents with young athletes are gearing up for sports season. Extracurricular sports are a valuable activity: they teach kids the value of teamwork, discipline a...

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Tips for Encouraging Activity with Kids who Aren’t Athletic

The modern childhood – with the temptations of video games, the online world, and indoor creature comforts – can be all too accommodating to kids who are disinterested in team sports or athletics. ...

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Tips to Promote Good Posture in Your Kids

“Stop slouching!”If you were raised by parents who cared about posture, you likely heard that phrase in your childhood more times than you can count. Aunts and uncles, gym teachers, and coaches als...

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Working Parents Day

The days of a single income household are becoming more and more rare with most households having both parents carrying jobs outside the home. September 16th is Working Parents Day and we’d like to...

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Back to School Health Tips

It’s that time again, kids and college students alike are getting ready to head back to school. With that can come stressful nights’ sleep, heavy backpacks and stress. School can be challenging on ...

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Juvenile Arthritis Affects Nearly 300,000 Families

Typically when we hear the word arthritis our minds immediately envision older adults. This isn’t always the case as approximately 294,000 children are afflicted with arthritis or what is coined ju...

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Supporting Your Child and Understanding Common Health Conditions

Four of the most common serious health conditions in children are obesity, chronic illness, developmental disabilities, and injury during sport or play. It is important to establish healthy pattern...

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Low Impact Games to Play with the Grandkids

Becoming a grandparent is one of the greatest, and simplest, joys in life. You get all the benefits of children without being responsible for them! Of course, you’re not as young as you used to be,...

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The Dangers of Overloaded Backpacks

It may be adorable when your kids strap on their enormous backpacks and head off to school – struggling toward the bus stop against the weight of their books – which, put together, roughly equals t...

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Creating Good Posture Habits in Your Children

May is National Correct Posture Month, so now is a great time to take a look at our own posture habits, as well as those of our children. Studies show that poor posture is a leading cause of back a...