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  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, The Disease

        Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, The Disease Kristen DiPaolo | CWK Network     “I would look in this corner three times, and then I would have to look in this corner ten times, and then I had to do it again while I was blinking, and then again while I was blinking and smiling.” – […]

  • Speech Delay

        Speech Delay Robert Seith | CWK Network     “(I feel) a little bit of sadness when I see children that are younger than her who are able to communicate so well verbally… and I guess that’s when it hits me.” – Melissa Watrobski, who’s 2-year-old daughter Emily only speaks a handful of […]

  • Cyber Bullies

        Cyber Bullies Robert Seith | CWK Network     “I think it’s a different kind of bullying than the traditional bully that you think about, that would purposefully go out to hurt somebody.” – Joanne Max, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologis –   Related Information What Parents Need To Know Resources 14-year-old Tricia Smith knows […]

  • Bike Accident (ER Story)

        Bike Accident (ER Story) Emily Halevy | CWK Network     “Next thing his mother knew, he was on the ground crying. And when she went over she saw that he had cut his chin quite badly and quite deeply and also bumped his head.” – Professor of Pediatrics Kathleen Nelson, M.D. – […]

  • Building Baby’s Vocabulary

        Building Baby’s Vocabulary Kristen DiPaolo | CWK Network     “I try to always talk to her a lot and enunciate well so she can understand, or at least hear the sounds of the words and know how they should sound.” – Cristine Schulz, Mother –   Related Information What Parents Need To […]

  • Toe Infection (ER Story)

        Toe Infection (ER Story) Kristen DiPaolo | CWK Network     “ Actually, if that foot was in his mouth, there’s a lot of germs in the mouth that can get into broken skin .” – Dr. Kathleen Nelson, professor of pediatrics . –   Related Information What Parents Need To Know Resources […]

  • Methamphetamines Part 3: Recovery

        Methamphetamines Part 3: Recovery Emily Halevy | CWK Network     Click Image for Video “I was the girl that used to call everyone a crack head and call them terrible things. I now understand fully what they went through and I also understand that there’s a solution now. It’s not a one-way […]

  • Methamphetamines Part 2: Addiction

        Methamphetamines Part 2: Addiction Emily Halevy | CWK Network     Click Image for Video “ When my family let me go, I said goodbye and I was fine with it…until I didn’t have any food and I couldn’t shower and my mom, my mom said I couldn’t come into her house. That […]

  • Methamphetamines Part 1: Gateway

        Methamphetamines Part 1: Gateway Emily Halevy | CWK Network     Click Image for Video “We had no idea truly though, and I thought I was a pretty sharp mom, how many drugs and how much she was abusing.” – Carol, Meghan’s mom –   Related Information What Parents Need To Know Resources […]

  • Facial Tic (ER Story)

        Facial Tic (ER Story) Emily Halevy | CWK Network     “Advice to parents when children have these tics is really to try to ignore them, don’t call the child’s attention to them very often, don’t talk about them when he’s not having them, because again that might make him anxious about it […]