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Sep
09
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I’ve never told my son about 9/11. Rather, he told me. One day last year, when he had just turned 8, he came home from school and said, “Mom, did you know some bad men flew a plane into some buildings?”
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Archive for the ‘Health, Nutrition & Safety’ Category
Blog Posts by Elisabeth Wilkins, EP Editor
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Aug
31
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 When I was a kid, I would watch “The Wizard of Oz” almost every day. The idea that a tornado could lift an entire house seemed believable to me at the time, and whenever tornadoes were predicted in my town, I would worry that my house would be lifted away into the sky. Recently, I experienced my first earthquake — and afterward, my two sons asked a lot of questions about it.
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Jul
21
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Should the government take extremely obese kids away from their parents? Dr. David Ludwig, obesity expert at the Children’s Hospital Boston, thinks so. In his editorial in The Journal of American Medicine last week, Dr. Ludwig said that “state intervention may serve the best interest of many children with life-threatening obesity, comprising the only realistic way to control harmful behaviors.”
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Nov
18
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We’ve all seen the sad statistics regarding childhood obesity and the associated long term health issues. Many have also put the fast food industry squarely in the cross hairs. I am no fan of the nutritional content or marketing techniques associated with fast food, but ultimately parents have to take responsibility for what their children eat.
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Jul
12
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After our new niece was born, my son E asked my sister-in-law if her tummy was broken. Thankfully, she went along with it and said that it was all fixed now. He has been under the impression that a baby magically goes into a woman’s tummy and then pops out of that same tummy nine months later.
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May
26
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I have officially become the Barney Fife of my town. But more about that later. We have a little partying problem in our neighborhood, you see. At the end of our street is a secluded area where all the teenagers go to drink and get high. When my husband and I bought our house here six years ago, little did we know that our street has been the place for teens to party since God was a child. (The realtor left out that little fact…hmmmm.)
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May
19
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This week, the news broke that there might be a link between pesticides and ADHD in kids. Apparently, researchers tested children across the U.S. in the general population and found that those with higher levels of the breakdown products of organophosphates (a type of widely-used pesticide) in their urine were twice as likely to have ADHD.
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May
19
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As Americans, we have become an “obesogenic” society. We have seen the consequences of our environment and the media promoting increased food intake, non-healthful foods, and physical inactivity. We know that our kids suffer the associated physical, emotional, and social tolls associated with obesity. Sadly, our kids’ performance in school may be another casualty in the super-sized society we live in. | |||
