Dr. Gwenn’s Huffington Post Blog
If your refrigerator is like ours, it starts to represent a snapshot of your family - as represented by magnets. As you can see from this picture, our family loves to travel, is a member of Red Sox Nation, and, [...]
Kids have been trying to get a rise out of teachers since the earliest days of schooling. Kids have been capturing inappropriate behavior on YouTube such as bullying of others, fights, class room antics, since they figured out they could. [...]
Today, as we pause to celebrate International Women’s Day, it’s hard for me not to think about the amazing women I met recently on my trip to India with a pediatric delegate through People To People. To say the experience [...]
Do your kids do projects that raise awareness of issues around the world? As part of their Honors High School Biology course, my daughter’s class was charged with finding interesting ways to protect and preserve our world. Her group decided [...]
Have you ever wondered how ads that seem to be made just for you pop up on Facebook, Google and just about every other site you go to? It’s called “behavioral advertising” and it’s rather cleaver and sneaky at the [...]
By now you’ve heard the news. Like it or not, the new Facebook Timeline is coming to a Facebook profile near you. In otherwords, yours, mine and all of our closest, and not so closest, friends. Not wanting the change [...]
Reading the tweets and news stories condemning Paula for not disclosing her diabetes sooner, and accusing her of doing so for personal gain, I’m reminded of the old American Indian Proverb: Never criticize a man until you’ve walked a mile [...]
Last year, the Florida State legislature attempted to gag pediatricians from discussing gun safety with families. That law, referred to as the docs n’ Glocks Law, was overturned by a Federal Judge this past September after strong rallying by the [...]
There are times in life I’m reminded of the 1980’s Billy Crystal parody, “You Look Marvelous”. The skit was a paroday of Fernando Lamas and gave birth to the phrase “You look marvelous…it’s not how you feel, it’s how you [...]
Looking for information on the digital world of texting, gaming and social media of your kids and teens? Wondering where that article was on texting or cyberbullying you know you saw recently on Pediatrics Now? Don’t worry! They haven’t [...]
