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A patient of mine said to me the other day “Wow—you do so much, it is amazing. How do you it?” I was taken aback because I didn’t have an answer. So I thought about it—how do I do it? Am I doing it “right”? This

The fact that most teenagers are sleep deprived is not news to most of us.   Think that sleep deprivation makes teens grumpy, emotionally labile, and likely to have poor attention spans? You are correct.   But that lack of sleep may mean more serious side effects than just

Recently, my 9-year-old son has been having a tough time falling asleep. He had gotten better after many frustrating nights of continuously coming into our room, pleading with me to lay with him for “another 5 minutes” or worse, to sleep with us (NO!) until

With millions of our children back to school in full swing, one Georgia charter school is bringing back a controversial way of keeping those kids in line: paddling on their buttocks!   The school, which serves children in grades K through 9, distributed consent forms to all

We all know that kids are easy targets for commercials boosting not so healthy treats – “Choco Dracula” and multi colored juice drinks get kids excited and ready to beg mom or dad to buy them.   Yet, do parents know that we are actually the targets

Turns out we haven’t been doing such a great job of keeping our kids hydrated in this country.   A recent study shows over HALF of U.S. children are dehydrated. What exactly does this mean?   The study looked at how concentrated kids urine was – including over 4,000