Understanding Bullying Behaviour Moms and dads often despair when their beautiful child starts showing aggressive behaviour and bullying other children. To be honest, this behaviour might even be apparent from early on, although it often seems to develop as part of toddlerhood. Many parents first notice bullying or aggressive [...]
Fever In Babies And Children The normal body temperature for a baby or child is the same as for an adult: 36–37 °C. Feeling Baby’s forehead will give you an indication of whether or not Baby is warmer than usual, but you should always use a thermometer to get [...]
Daycare, or day hospital? ‘Daycare disease’ needs no explaining – every parent with a little one in crèche can relate! It’s a well-known fact that when a baby or toddler is cared for in a crèche or similar group facility, she is more prone to becoming ill often. When [...]
How You Can Help Soothe Your Child’s Pain Pain, much like fever, is not a disease, but a symptom alerting one to an underlying problem. That’s why you should be guided by common sense and the presence of additional symptoms like fever, when assessing the need for medical attention [...]
Comprehending Croup Croup is a common childhood disease that often strikes during the late autumn and early winter months. It’s a respiratory tract illness that’s best known for causing a sudden onset of barking cough and breathing difficulty in the middle of the night, in a child who was [...]
What To Do About Fever, Earache And Croup At Night Baby has been crying constantly, it’s the middle of the night, and you wonder if there’s something seriously wrong – should you go to the hospital? This is a difficult call to make because illnesses always appear worse at [...]
Preventing And Treating Eczema And Other Skin Rashes Does your little one have a skin rash? The most common skin rash in little ones is eczema, which has two types. Atopic eczema is the most common type of eczema and produces red and often dry and scaly skin patches mostly on [...]
The ABCs Of Mending Bad Behaviour School has started again and it’s a relief to get back into routine – or is it? Suddenly your little one is acting up, sucking her thumb, and insisting that her princess tutu is appropriate attire for school. The first step is not [...]
Snotty Noses Sorted – Not Snorted! Wiping snotty noses – it’s simply part of being a mom. But what does all the mucus mean? Is it allergies, sinus, or something worse which requires medical attention? Sister Lilian Centre's mucus guide (that’s probably something you never thought you’d read before [...]
Potty Training Parents Hindsight is wonderful! And if you could see into the future, you would see some of the things that hindsight will in any case one day show you, making you wish you hadn’t sweated the small stuff. Potty training, for one, would not loom as this [...]
