Advice for the testy child
Laurence I. Sugarman, MD
Taking care of kids’ holiday spirits
Think about what you’re teaching them as you gather around the tree
Food for thought
I had the pleasure of meeting with a wonderful, insightful, intelligent 17-year-old woman who came to my office for weight-loss counseling. She weighed 345 pounds. She said that her lifelong obesity made her feel that she had been born into debt and had been unable to pay it off. According to the American Obesity Association, […]
Parenting in a world gone mad
Parenting 9/11: five years and one month later Events play tricks with our memories. September 11, 2001 does not seem to have been five years ago. It still echoes in our lives. We all know what we were doing that day and recall it vividly. We know that our lives changed then. I learned that […]
With great puppies come great responsibility
How a dog can help change your kid’s life






