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Our goal is to educate, encourage, and entertain as we provide general pediatric advice. However, please understand that Two Peds in a Pod does not replace your relationship with your pediatric health care provider. Parents should address specific questions about their child’s health with their child’s health care provider and not delay seeking this advice because of content learned from Two Peds in a Pod. Please know also that while our anecdotes are based on real patients, identifying features have been changed in order to protect patient confidentiality.

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Two Peds in a Pod: Category Archive for 5. Elementary school kids

In the Blink of an Eye: corneal abrasions

Avoiding "TV Heads": how to limit your child's TV and video game time

What's the big deal about Fifth Disease?

That's using your head! Or, how to assess your child's knock on the noggin.

Hot Summer Tips

A Parent's Field Guide to Field Trips

The skinny on preventing skin infections: decontaminating scrapes and scratches

Top Ten Skills You Acquire as a Mother

Books for Helping Children Through Bereavement

AH-CHOO! Coping with seasonal allergies

When your child's friend moves away

"Ya gotta have heart!" Heart murmurs explained.

Hand Held Health Hazards: your kids and their devices

Subduing stress: relaxation techniques

Managing Munchies: More healthy weight ideas

Making Sense of Ear Pain

Child (or anyone) abduction prevention tips

Traveling With Children

Ankle Strengthening Exercises- what to do after an ankle sprain

Always something-those rubber bands

Holes In Your Head: Sinus Infections

How to Help Your Bedwetting Child

Dry winter skin - guidance from a guru

Count down the pounds: six simple guidelines to helping overweight children

STREP THROAT Part 2: diagnosis, treatment, and when to worry

STREP THROAT Part 1: what is it, who gets it, and why do we care about it?

Tantrums, Anxiety and Tics in the Young School Aged Child- our first podcast party

What's up with Acetaminophen (Tylenol)?

How Sick is Sick? When to Worry about Your Child's Illness

Dry chapped hands - home remedies

How to Take the Sting Out of Injectable Vaccines

Got Milk? Dispelling Myths about Milk

Tips on Toes- and other foot related stuff

"Common Cold" vs "The Flu": How to tell the Difference

How best to hydrate your sporty kid

Food Allergies- or why is my kid's classroom peanut free?

Wake Up, Sleepy-Head, It's Time for School!

Bittersweet transitions- surviving the first day of school from daycare to college

Ouch! Those nasty wasp and bee stings

How to Explain Death to a Young School-aged Child

Save Money: How to Penny Pinch Without Hurting Your Children

Soothing the itch of poison ivy

Lyme Disease: What Makes it Tic? Ticks!

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