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  • Pre-School Responsibility

        Pre-School Responsibility Robert Seith | CWK Network     “Part of what you’re teaching children is to follow two or three step directions. Because as you teach them as young children, they get more able developmentally to handle two or three steps. When you get to school you have multiple step directions of […]

  • Long-Term Teen Dating

        Long-Term Teen Dating Robert Seith | CWK Network     “Recognize that within limits that it can be a valuable experience to go through the rough and tumble of a intimate romantic relationship early on.“ – Psychologist Jim Purvis, Ph.D.   Related Information What Parents Need To Know Resources 17-year-olds Alison Watt and […]

  • Finger Blister (ER)

        Finger Blister (ER) Emily Halevy | CWK Network     “Anytime you have a problem with your kidney’s or liver, you have to be very careful about the medications that you administer.“ – Mike Ziegler, emergency pediatrics, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta   Related Information What Parents Need To Know Resources A week ago, […]

  • Teens Drop Sports

        Teens Drop Sports Kristen DiPaolo | CWK Network     “As it went on it got like really competitive and stuff, and I’m not exactly the most competitive person ever.”– Katie Meyer, 16   Related Information What Parents Need To Know Resources Katie, Brittany, and Laura all used to be athletes— and they […]

  • Emergency Contraception

        Emergency Contraception Kristen DiPaolo | CWK Network     “The sperm and the ovum can’t get together. It prevents the ovulation in the first place. So it is not a pill that does abortion. It is not that at all. It prevents the pregnancy from getting established in the beginning.”– Michael K. Levine, […]

  • ‘Pharm’ Parties

        ‘Pharm’ Parties Robert Seith | CWK Network     “Just take whatever we had you know, not really thinking about how high I was going to get or you know, how messed up.“ – ‘James’, age 21, explaining how he and friends shared drugs during his teenage years.   Related Information What Parents […]

  • MRSA

        MRSA Kristen DiPaolo | CWK Network     “ We are seeing a doubling or tripling of the number of staph infections that present, both to community doctors and to the hospital. “ – Bob Harrison, MD, Epidemiologist and Infectious Disease Consultant, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta   Related Information What Parents Need To […]

  • Home Fetal Heart Monitors

        Home Fetal Heart Monitors Robert Seith | CWK Network     “It’s very difficult to actually hear the babies heartbeat using these devices. It’s a very very faint ‘thud, thud, thud’, and nothing like what the patients are hearing when they come to (the doctors office).“ – Steven Rabin, M.D., Ob-Gyn.   Related […]

  • Eye Injury (ER)

        Eye Injury (ER) Emily Halevy | CWK Network     “ Sometimes when you get hit in the eye, you can scratch your cornea or get what we call a corneal abrasion. That’s very painful and affects your vision and can cause serious visual problems if it’s very deep or doesn’t heal properly.”– […]