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Did you know that there are certain foods that increase your child's height naturally? Foods that are rich in essential nutrients such as Vitamins, Calcium, Zinc, Magnesium etc can prove to be highly instrumental in adding extra inches to your child's height. Read on...
1. Whole Grains - Whole grains are rich sources of Zinc, Magnesium and Vitamin B, which play a very vital role in promoting your child's growth during his/her budding years. Additionally, whole grains also contain calori...more
1. Whole Grains - Whole grains are rich sources of Zinc, Magnesium and Vitamin B, which play a very vital role in promoting your child's growth during his/her budding years. Additionally, whole grains also contain calori...more
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD is a chronic disorder usually seen in children and teens. The condition involves hyperactivity, attention deficiency, and impulsiveness.
Bringing up a child with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is very different from traditional child-rearing. Keeping up with usual household activities and making house-rules almost seems impossible when you have a hyperactive child around.
Recognizing the signs of ADHD in your chi...more
Bringing up a child with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is very different from traditional child-rearing. Keeping up with usual household activities and making house-rules almost seems impossible when you have a hyperactive child around.
Recognizing the signs of ADHD in your chi...more
Last Updated: 7 years ago• Featured Tip
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD is a chronic disorder usually seen in children and teens. The condition involves hyperactivity, attention deficiency, and impulsiveness.
Bringing up a child with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is very different from traditional child-rearing. Keeping up with usual household activities and making house-rules almost seems impossible when you have a hyperactive child around.
Recognizing the signs of ADHD in your chi...more
Bringing up a child with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is very different from traditional child-rearing. Keeping up with usual household activities and making house-rules almost seems impossible when you have a hyperactive child around.
Recognizing the signs of ADHD in your chi...more
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Effective ways to deal with stubborn child
Stubbornness can be a characteristic that your child demonstrates right from infancy. You can take comfort in the fact that there plenty of parents who are in a similar situation. The way in which you handle your stubborn child will make all the difference in the kind of adults they turn out to be. The toddler phase and the teenager phase are considered the toughest to handle.
It is important to understand that stubbornness is a part of the...more
Stubbornness can be a characteristic that your child demonstrates right from infancy. You can take comfort in the fact that there plenty of parents who are in a similar situation. The way in which you handle your stubborn child will make all the difference in the kind of adults they turn out to be. The toddler phase and the teenager phase are considered the toughest to handle.
It is important to understand that stubbornness is a part of the...more
Last Updated: 7 years ago• Featured Tip
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Raising a child with dyslexia can stir up a lot of emotions. You may look ahead and wonder if this learning issue will affect your child's future. But dyslexia is not a prediction of failure. Dyslexia is quite common, and many successful individuals have dyslexia.
Research has proven that there are different ways of teaching that can help people with dyslexia succeed. There's a lot you can do as a parent too.
What are the symptoms of dyslexia?
Because dyslexia affects ...more
Research has proven that there are different ways of teaching that can help people with dyslexia succeed. There's a lot you can do as a parent too.
What are the symptoms of dyslexia?
Because dyslexia affects ...more
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Your child is fond of nuts and has eaten a chocolate with nuts but shortly after that develops a skin rash and starts to itch. The rash may even spread to the surrounding area. This is an indication of food allergy to nuts.
What happens is simple - the body's immune system recognizes specific proteins in the food as harmful (antigens) and produces antibodies which can combat them. This leads to an allergic reaction which can vary from something as simple as a skin rash to severe breathi...more
What happens is simple - the body's immune system recognizes specific proteins in the food as harmful (antigens) and produces antibodies which can combat them. This leads to an allergic reaction which can vary from something as simple as a skin rash to severe breathi...more
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Motherhood is a big responsibility. Being a caretaker and a nurturer requires a lot of hard work and time. Staying active physically, emotionally and spiritually is the most difficult work of all. It is even more tiring as the entire process of giving birth is a tiring task in itself.
In order to get over this tiredness, according to Ayurveda, one should try to calm their Vata. Spiritual elements of the body are collectively called Vata. Vata is responsible for maintaining the balance a...more
In order to get over this tiredness, according to Ayurveda, one should try to calm their Vata. Spiritual elements of the body are collectively called Vata. Vata is responsible for maintaining the balance a...more
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If your child is suffering from mental retardation, homeopathy can help. A system of complementary medicine, homeopathy works on the dictum of like treats like . It is able to treat some of the toughest disorders and illnesses that allopathy finds hard to contain.
Mental retardation: Definition
Mental retardation is a blanket term for a pattern of persistently slow learning of basic motor and language milestones during childhood.
The adult manifests a below-normal intellec...more
Mental retardation: Definition
Mental retardation is a blanket term for a pattern of persistently slow learning of basic motor and language milestones during childhood.
The adult manifests a below-normal intellec...more
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Fever is defined as a body temperature of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) and higher.
What you can do at #home:-
1. Administer an antifever medication, such as acetaminophen (paracetamol) or ibuprofen. Dose as advised by your doctor according to child's weight
Don't give your child aspirin, as it has been linked to a serious, potentially fatal disease, called Reye syndrome.
2. Other ways to reduce a fever:
#dress your child lightly. Exce...more
What you can do at #home:-
1. Administer an antifever medication, such as acetaminophen (paracetamol) or ibuprofen. Dose as advised by your doctor according to child's weight
Don't give your child aspirin, as it has been linked to a serious, potentially fatal disease, called Reye syndrome.
2. Other ways to reduce a fever:
#dress your child lightly. Exce...more
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Top 10 Homeopathic Medicines For Your Child!
Becoming a parent completely changes your world. You are more concerned about your kids health, their safety, diet and hygiene. All you want to provide them is best of everything. Now a days parents are aware of the side effects caused by conventional medicines. Hence most of the parents opt for safe and natural way of treating even minor ailments.
Homeopathic medicines are the most safest and side effect free compared to other holis...more
Becoming a parent completely changes your world. You are more concerned about your kids health, their safety, diet and hygiene. All you want to provide them is best of everything. Now a days parents are aware of the side effects caused by conventional medicines. Hence most of the parents opt for safe and natural way of treating even minor ailments.
Homeopathic medicines are the most safest and side effect free compared to other holis...more
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