Jelly Mom™:Laziness Takes Planning and Effort

September 1st, 2007 by admin

Laziness Takes Planning and Effort
©Lisa Barker

Deciphering what I scrawled on a Tupperware lid for a container I chucked in the freezer months ago is not one of my better skills.  But I can always use it to my advantage.

The other night I defrosted what I thought was beef stew and came to discover later that it was this mysterious opaque liquid.  It tasted like a sweaty pig.  Ah, ham stock!  But I had no time left to make pea soup for dinner. Read the rest of this entry »

I Wanna Go Home! – When Your Child is in the Hospital

July 17th, 2007 by admin

I Wanna Go Home!
When Your Child is in the Hospital

By Laura Nathanson, M.D., FAAP,
Author of What You Don’t Know Can Kill You

When a child is admitted to the hospital, pediatricians have the same concerns that families have: make sure the child stays safe, comfortable, and as emotionally secure as possible.

In my childcare book The Portable Pediatrician, I talk about the emotional meaning of hospitalization for children of each age group from Birth to Five. (It’s in the “What If” section of each age-based chapter, along with such challenges as parental divorce, death of a pet, arrival of a new sibling, and so on.) While I still stand by that advice, there have been three big changes since then when it comes to keeping children as safe and as comfortable as possible: Read the rest of this entry »