Kids, Mental Health and Meds
For quite some time now, there’s been debate raging over the prevalence and treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety, and other mental health concerns among children and teens. Are these issues being misidentified and overdiagnosed? Should medications be prescribed…
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What Kids Think about Oral Sex
Several years ago, I had a conversation with Dr. Meg Meeker, a pediatrician who saw a significant number of teenage girls in her practice. I remember Dr. Meeker telling me about some of the frank conversations she was having with…
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Kids and Hearing Loss
When I was a little kid in Sunday School, we would sing that familiar “Be Careful” song and eventually get to a verse that began like this: “Be careful little ears what you hear.” Well, my ears certainly aren’t as…
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Screens, Exercise and Childhood Health
Sometimes research will confirm what our intuition has already told us. That’s certainly the case when it comes to kids and obesity. Researchers have been warning us for years that a child’s heavy use of digital media is associated with…
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