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.
Not exact matches
Because
of the typical pediatric practice
of asking what a
child's
temperature is when a parent calls to report that their
child is
sick.
A
child can have a
temperature of 102 or 103 degrees F with a cold or other viral infection, but may still be eating and drinking and sleeping well and may not be very
sick.
Others have reported that certain kinds
of artificial light can improve sleep and reduce depression and agitation in people with Alzheimer's disease; that higher air
temperatures seem to curb calorie consumption; that employees take more
sick leave when they work in open - plan offices; and that
children in daylight - drenched classrooms progress faster in maths and reading than do those in darker ones.