They Are Low-Risk Midwives generally only take care of low-risk patients. This means that your midwife has been trained to ensure that you do your best to stay healthy and low-risk throughout your pregnancy by guiding you in your choices towards healthy options. It also means that they are constantly watching to ensure you are within these healthy parameters (like a lifeguard, only stepping in when needed). Occasionally, a high-risk practice will have a midwife on staff to provide patient education....

Materials 1 cup flour Liquid tempera or acrylic 1/2 cup salt paint and paintbrush Water (optional) Food coloring (optional) Clear acrylic spray Baking sheet Magnetic strip Glue gun Directions

Your son scores a goal in hockey; you tell him he’s the best player on the team. Your daughter learns to ride her bike in a single weekend; you tell her she’s the fastest learner on two wheels. Add another heaping helping of praise: Your child eats it up. And you’re all too eager to serve second helpings; chances are, no one fed you much encouragement when you were growing up, now did they?...

Representation in Children’s Televison If it seems like television is becoming more diverse, it’s not just your imagination—positive representation of marginalized groups has become more and more common over the years. “Part of that is because we are becoming a more enlightened population. Part of it is there are so many more places for programming to do this now,” said Robert Thompson, founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture and a trustee professor of television and popular culture at Syracuse University....

Teens & Tobacco: A Fatal Attractionby Susan S. Lang, Beth H. MarksDrawing on a variety of current documents, books, and articles, the authors emphatically make their point regarding the medical risks associated with smoking.How to Raise Non-Smoking Kidsby Neil Izenberg, Robert P. LibbonThis book offers parents concrete methods to prevent children from starting this deadly habit. It includes a quiz for kids on their knowledge of smoking and its effects, an organ-by-organ breakdown of how tobacco affects the body, a timeline on the popularity of tobacco, and more....

Types of Working Animals Service, emotional support, and therapy animals undergo specialized training, of varying degrees, to perform different tasks based on their owner’s individual needs. They also have access to more public places than companion pets. According to the Service Animal Association, a service dog works to help the owner perform tasks they cannot perform on their own because of their disability, an emotional support animal works to improve the health of their owner who is disabled, and the therapy animal works with their owner to improve the health of others....

“One of the most important roles played by a primary care provider—perhaps the most important—is as a source of objective information,” says pediatrician Cara Natterson, MD, co-founder of puberty resource OOMLA. “This information may reflect back on something that has happened in the past or that’s going on in the moment, but it often points forward in the form of anticipatory guidance.” The Study in Detail The researchers from University of Minnesota analyzed data from a nationally representative survey of U....

According to the American Pregnancy Association, you may have an increased risk of another pregnancy loss if your body isn’t ready to support a pregnancy yet. Both the uterus and the endometrial lining need time to recover and restrengthen. Many doctors recommend that women wait two or three months to conceive again after a miscarriage. This is so they can recover physically and emotionally from their loss. Some doctors may recommend waiting even longer if the couple needs more time to heal....

What can parents do to prepare? “Given the costs of education increasing, start to save and invest for these costs," says Will Rainey, the author of “Grandpa’s Fortune Fables.” “The power of compounding from saving over years and tax advantages can reduce the required contributions substantially, compared to not saving in advance.” College savings might come in many forms, but most American families consider a 529 plan first. “A 529 savings plan offers a way for households to save for college in a tax-efficient manner,” explains Raymond J....

Leonardo da Vinci Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, and scientist. Renaissance Man. Did you know he had a learning disability? Admiral Peary American arctic explorer and naval officer. He had a communicative disorder. Vincent Van Gogh Post-impressionist painter, originally from the Netherlands. Van Gogh had epilepsy and struggled with mental illness, including depression and dementia. Marc Chagall Russian Cubist and Expressionist painter. He had a communicative disorder. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec French painter and lithographer....

As a parent, you can help your child develop reading skills with enjoyable activities, some of which you might not have thought of as reading enrichment. Easy Reading Strategies for Parents to Use at Home How to Incorporate Reading Into Your Child’s Time at Home When you practice reading skills with your child, it is important that you remember to keep your reading activities stress-free. Use mistakes as teachable moments....

Make a river of red or a swirl of blue. Your kids can create their own unique paintings without even picking up a paintbrush! Materials needed:· Paper· Straws· Water color or tempera paints· Crayons or markers (optional) What to do: Step One: If your child is younger than five years old, ask her to practice blowing with the straws first. Step Two: Add water to the paints to make them runny....

At the core of this groundbreaking work is helping parents identify and nurture their child’s character strengths. This approach is a dynamic new tool because it differs radically from the more traditional approaches to parenting. More: Authoritative Parenting is On The Rise Rather than trying to improve IQ, skill, behavior, or learning this new approach gives parents and kids real hope for promoting happiness and achievement by developing their character....

The demand for children’s fitness programs has even led to a health club in Chicago that is exclusively for kids. It plans to open franchises in other cities. A key part of these programs is strength training to improve muscles and build bones. Although strength training was long thought to be unnecessary—and perhaps even unsafe—for children, current research shows that if done correctly it’s beneficial for all ages, from kids to seniors....

Supine is a medical term for lying flat on your back. Hypotension is low blood pressure. When you’re pregnant, and you lie flat on your back, the weight of the baby and your uterus press down on your spine and abdominal organs. The pressure can squeeze two of the largest blood vessels in your body – the aorta and the inferior vena cava. Pressure on the aorta or vena cava can affect your circulation or the flow of blood in your body....

Debit cards are tied to a bank account and allow a person to spend up to the amount in the bank account. The spending limit is determined solely by the amount in the bank account. Two types of plastic cards can be used to pay for things: Credit cards Debit cards While your child is living at home, using plastic as a form of payment may not be essential because you’re there to help out by paying for things or lending him your own credit card on occasion....