Almost all childhood respiratory disease is caused by one of seven viral or bacterial culprits, but when
a sick kid shows up at a doctor's office, there's no easy way to tell which is to blame.
Not exact matches
While we all want to grow up to believe that we can be Claire Huxtable, the Cosby
Show mother who balanced her legal briefcase with one hand while checking the temperature of a
sick child with the other (never mind that her husband is a doctor), the reality is that most mothers of several children are just trying not to lose a
kid in the grocery store.
If you've got a
kid that's been
sick all week, and he
shows up on Thursday and asks what this team does differently, we'll be able to tell them.»
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kids gets
sick right as you're about to head out the door (#beenthere).
Research
shows that
kids who get fed are
sick less, pay more attention in class, and even do better on standardized achievement tests.
Also if your child
shows really harsh lines around the eyes, like they are unnaturally tired or in pain, do not take your
sick kid out into public except to the doctor.
Wegner suggests encouraging
kids to create art and letters when people are
sick, or for their birthdays, or to
show your appreciation «just because.»
Some
kids walk around with a fever while
sick but
show no signs of it bothering them.
It's hard
show up for a 7 a.m. spin class when you were up half the night with a
sick kid.
And if it was a long night (aka
kids were up
sick) AND I forgot to apply the anti-aging serum, my skin really
showed it in the morning.
Rather than talk about the root causes or psychological aspects of these events, Grossman instead took the opportunity to point blame at «the
sick movies and
sick TV
shows and especially
sick video games around the planet that are creating
sick,
sick kids.»