Preschooler
5 Smart Tips for Letting Toddlers Use Smartphones
It's becoming an ever more common sight: babies and kids playing with smartphones. According to NPR's Health Blog, one recent survey found that as many as 1 in 4 toddlers has used a smartphone and for…
Father: Past, Present, and Future
Even before our babies are born, we are teaching them about the world around us. We communicate our choices, our values, even without thinking about it. They hear our voices, smell our aromas, and the…
Pediatricians’ Trick-or-Treat Bags
Each year thousands of pediatricians gather for a national conference to catch up on the latest science and with each other. There's also a huge exhibit hall, as in so many professional and trade conf…
Skin Damage Starts with Your Child’s First Sun Over-exposure
It's taken a long time for science to quantify what mothers have always known: the skin of babies and toddlers is very different from the skin of older children and adults. Babies' skin is softer beca…
Danger in a Spray Bottle: Why It’s Time to Change Our Childproofing Strategy
Dr. Greene's take on the household spray bottle... For years doctors have encouraged parents to store toxic household cleaning products in locked cabinets, out of sight and reach of children. While th…
Helping Healthy Food Compete with Fast Food
Dr. Greene's take on healthy food vs. fast food... Any parent who has ever seen the reaction of a 3-year-old to the idea of heading to McDonald's for lunch won't be surprised by the results of a recen…
Every Parent Should Learn about Food Imprinting
Dr. Greene's take on food imprinting... What and how our kids eat is central to their health both now and in the long run. Your early food decisions can help your child learn good food in much the sam…
Learning Foods is Like Learning a Language
I received a great question from @ChowMamaStacie on Twitter (which was posed by @amanda by way of @kidappeal), "What do you say or do when kids make funny faces as they taste food?" I suggest a low-ke…
Dosing Spoon Surprise
Once again, my take is different than that of most. About 70 percent of Americans measure their liquid medicines in kitchen spoons. But when smart college students were asked to pour a real teaspoon o…
Choosing the Right Vitamin Supplement for Your Children
If the world were a perfect place, we wouldn't have to worry about giving supplements to our families. Children are miraculously designed to thrive on a balanced variety of whole foods: fruits, veggie…
Cold Medicine for Your Kids
Last year an advisory panel of independent experts convened by the FDA recommended that the FDA ban popular over-the-counter oral decongestants, antihistamines and cough suppressants for children unde…
Cholesterol, Drugs, and Kids
Controversial new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics call for more children to get their cholesterol checked, starting as young as age 2, and for some kids to be started on statin drug…
Temper Tantrums – When to Worry
Temper tantrums can be a normal and common part of early childhood, but sometimes they are a sign of a problem that needs to be addressed. Parents often ask me whether their child's tantrums are beyon…
Superbugs at School (and Preschool)
MRSA infections now kill more Americans than does HIV/AIDS, according to a CDC report in the October 17, 2007 Journal of the American Medical Association. Most of these infections are in adults over a…
Cows, Cats, Siblings, and Immune Health
Regular contact with farm animals is associated with a dramatically lower risk of a young child's later developing an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) such as Crohn disease (CD) or ulcerative colitis …
The Bedtime Pass Program
For almost ten years now I've suggested using a simple, easy "Get Out of Bed Free Card" for those who want to help preschool and school-age children learn to happily stay in their own rooms at night. …
Digital Childhood, Physical World
Today's generation of children is growing up unlike any previous generation in history. In the last 10 years there has been an explosion of digital and electronic media available to and even targeted …
Dr. Greene’s Organic Rx — Item #4
#4 Organic Baby Foods Picture a treasured, pristine newborn, just beginning the voyage of life. Imagine a baby who hasn't yet picked up the habits or tastes you wish you never had. Let it sink in - th…
Baby Fat
Dr. Greene's take on baby fat... I often hear from parents who expect that their cute, chubby young childrenwill naturally thin out the baby fat as their height spurts up. Unfortunately, it doesn't t…
The Tooth Fairy Lives in Texas. And Has a New Purpose
In 2003 I wrote an article about the very sensitive subject of stem cell research. However, I wasn't writing about fetal stem cell harvesting; I was discussing stem cells found in baby teeth. Prelimin…