11:02 pm | Blog, Friendships, Menstruation, Mother-daughter, Period Kit, puberty stages, tampons
The ‘Birds and the Bees’ conversation is what Healthy Chats aims to ease and demystify. Whether you attend a seminar or not, once the day of the ‘big talk’ is over, there’s ultimately got to be some follow up. In this post, we’ll review how to approach – and survive...
4:44 pm | Blog, Health education, the Birds and the Bees, Where do babies come from?
As I watched bits and pieces of the Super Bowl, the commercial of Babylandia caught my attention. So this is where babies come from? Ha!! The dreaded questions posed to parents, which we all try to avoid. Now we have one more version of the story – BABYLANDIA!!...
6:42 pm | Blog, conversations
December means a lot of things: the end of one year and the start of a new one, really cold weather (for some of you), holiday music, family gatherings, frenzied shopping, cooking, special traditions…the list goes on. My favorite part about this time of year...
5:54 am | Blog, Health education, the Birds and the Bees
I started my busy day at the office with the worried look of my receptionist who noted that a parent had left a note stating that a certain picture book from my waiting room’s assortment was inappropriate and she had asked to have it removed. Perplexed about...
7:20 pm | Blog, good choices
Healthy body image and it’s best friend, high self esteem, are hardest to find in teenage girls, but let’s not forget that teenage boys and kids of all ages can potentially suffer from an unhealthy or distorted body image (not to mention adults). Your...