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How Adults Can Help Children Prevent and Decompress from Holiday Stress
The holiday season can be filled with festive cheer and family gatherings, but it can also bring stress and the feeling of being overwhelmed, especially for children. It’s important to come up with a strategy to minimize holiday stress for children and build space to decompress after the holidays.
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Preemie 101: Actual vs. Corrected Age
It may be confusing to figure out exactly how old your baby is developmentally, and why it is important to consider more than just their date of birth when calculating age.
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What Is Proton Therapy?
Proton therapy is an advanced type of radiation treatment that uses protons instead of X-rays to kill cancer cells.
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Our Top 10 Blog Posts of 2023
We can’t say “goodbye” to 2023 without our annual wrap-up of the Top 10 blog posts on 700 Children’s! So, before we say “hello” to 2024, here are our 10 most popular blog posts for this past year.
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10 Tips for Families New to Type 1 Diabetes
Parents and kids facing a new diagnosis of type 1 diabetes are beginning a long-term period of learning basic and then more complex points of diabetes management.
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What Do You Think of Your Child’s Weight?
A new study published online in the March issue of Pediatrics found that 51 percent of parents with overweight or obese children don’t believe their kids are too heavy. This perception is also true at the other spectrums of weight.
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How to Talk with Your Kids About Puberty
When kids are toddlers or preschoolers, they start asking questions about their bodies – and even yours. If you start early and talk to them often, then talking about puberty when they get older will be a lot easier.
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Throwing Guidelines for Baseball Players
From that 1st pitch to a throw from outfield to home plate, throwing is a big part of baseball. Shoulder and elbow growth plate injuries are common in young athletes who play a high volume of games each season and throughout the year. Here are 9 tips for preventing injuries.
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Preventing Skin Infections in Wrestling
Wrestlers use strength, agility and finesse to wrestle for victory against their opponent. In every practice and match, skin-to-skin contact between two players is inevitable. This environment of skin and sweat is a breeding pool for organisms such as bacteria, fungus, and viruses.
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The Dangers of Pinterest
I’ll admit I’m no Martha Stewart. But something about Pinterest sucks me in. But as a childhood injury researcher, I have a problem with Pinterest. I see ideas for children that are completely unsafe for them.