10 Ways to Encourage Babies to Play Independently: Can babies play? Can babies play independently? Can babies play by themselves? I believe that Independent Play is the pillar of childhood – and can be encouraged as early as in the newborn days. Human babies are born, designed, and wired for play and exploration and it
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St. Louis Children’s Hospital is one of the ONLY hospitals in the nation that hosts an adaptive triathlon to champion kids on the move. The Tri My Best adaptive triathlon encourages children with movement disorders to swim, cycle and run their way to the finish line!
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Welcome to the world of discovery, a place for baby to explore their senses and develop new skills. Black and white are the first colours a baby sees and our new MPlay toy range has a combination of black and white mixed with bold patterns and colours to help support your baby’s eyes to focus
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Thanks to everyone who participated in the 2021 Tri My Best Adaptive Triathlon! Held virtually again this year, these incredible athletes ran, swam and biked their way to the finish line. Check out their video below and remember to keep staying active year-round! We look forward to our 2022 event!
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The Children’s Runners 10 program is a stretching program developed by Washington University pediatric sports medicine specialists at the Young Athlete Center. The program focuses on 10 stretching and strengthening exercises designed to improve flexibility, strength and endurance of the muscles used for running. Visit our website for more information about our injury prevention programs:
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Indiana University School of Medicine researchers are learning more about the effects of herbicide exposure during pregnancy, finding glyphosate in 99 percent of the pregnant women they observed in the Midwest. In the study, published recently in Environmental Health, higher glyphosate levels were associated with lower birth weight and may also lead to higher neonatal
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The Parenting Junkie asks what marriage advice did you receive? How did your parents model a happy marriage? Or if they didn’t what did they model? If you find yourself asking how to improve your marriage, or looking for healthy marriage tips you may not have had a healthy relationship modeled for you (most of
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A recent study published in the journal Academic Pediatrics evaluated the associations between severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and early breastfeeding. Study: Association of SARS-CoV-2 Infection with Early Breastfeeding. Image Credit: HTeam / Shutterstock Breastfeeding offers profound benefits to children and mothers. However, some demographic characteristics are linked to lower breastfeeding rates. Besides, shorter
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Why Kids Lie & What to Do About It! The Parenting Junkie discusses lying. Learn why kids lie and what you can do to stop kids from lying. Why do children lie? Keep in mind that lying is a normal developmental behavior. Still wondering how to stop kids from lying, we have to let them
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