Children's & Teens Health Articles

Teething can cause all sorts of discomfort for babies and parents alike. Read about several natural remedies that can reduce inflammation and ease the discomfort for your little one.

Past generations of parents and carers often used wine or whiskey to soothe teething pain in children, but modern-day science warns against these old-wives practices as they might be dangerous and cause harm to a baby.

Even though they might provide a short relief, it would be best to stay away from numbing gels as a treatment for teething pain because their most common active ingredients Benzocaine and lidocaine may harm babies.

We homeschool. Yeah, we know we're not normal, and we like it. Here's what you can expect to hear if you ask me about the multitude of ways in which homeschooling makes us weird.

I want to believe that we all want the best for our children, and that those who give dangerous things to kids are just misinformed. Homeopathic tablets and teething gels do ease the teething pain, but some of them are proven dangerous.

Yup, homeschool families are different — but the academic, social, and lifestyle benefits of homeschooling naysayers don't talk about mean homeschool students can stand out in a good way.

Are the teen years really some kind of "parental purgatory" that you just have to live through, or is it possible to have a respectful and open relationship with your teen? Communication style may be key.

Learning styles — roughly defined as the individual ways that best enable a person to learn stuff — are a much talked-about subject in homeschool circles. What do you need to know about them to be a successful homeschooler?

"What about socialization?" has got to be the number one question homeschool skeptics ask. It's a tricky one, because the term has evolved to have two meanings — both important, and both related to your child's social needs. How do you meet those?

Homeschooled children can thrive socially — but research proving this says little to nothing about individual families, and meeting our kids' social needs ultimately boils down to personal responsibility.