Winning the Food Fight at Home
If your child refuses to eat vegetables you are not alone. Many parents are frustrated with the limited amount of food options their children will eat.
Lunchbox Makeovers
Give your kids the fuel they need to learn. Pack a nutritious lunch that doesn't get traded or thrown away when they get to school.
The Right Diet for Overweight Kids
Parents of obese and overweight children often throw up their hands in nutritional confusion, not knowing what to feed their child or how to help. Learn how to help your child achieve a healthy body weight.
Sugary Drinks are not so Sweet
Children are consuming more sweetened drinks in the form of soda and sugary juices than ever before. Unfortunately, it is evident that this trend is one of the major contributing factors to the growing number of overweight and obese children.
Treatment for Nightmares
Chronic nightmares and night terrors are very traumatic for young children. These nightmares may lead to insomnia as the child fears going to sleep, to fatigue, irritability and apathy and to poor grades at school. Researchers have found that imagery therapy may be useful in the treatment of chronic nightmares.
Raising a Healthy, Happy Vegetarian
Can your child get all of the nutrients necessary to grow and develop if they are a vegetarian? Of course they can! Vegetarians today are just as healthy, if not healthier than their meat-eating counterparts. Your vegetarian child can get all the nutrients necessary to grow up healthy and strong by careful planning and attention to their meals.
Fusspot Relief: How to Handle the Finicky Eater
Many parents are concerned that their finicky eater will go hungry or will not receive the proper nutrition necessary to grow big and strong. In truth, most children are more in tune with their hunger signal than adults and will be the first to tell you whether they are hungry or not.
Water them down!
By the time children realize they’re thirsty, they’re already dehydrated.
