Dr. Gwenn’s Huffington Post Blog
Activity TV (index) An activity based video-web site for parents and kids. Everything your older child and tween could imaginedoing is on this site from cooking to summer fun! The best part is the family involvement so check it out!! [...]
There’s an epidemic at our malls: parents taking their small children up and down escalators in strollers of all sorts of sizes and shapes. I ended up behind one such parent yesterday and found strollers heading up and down all afternoon. Some were small, some large. Some had bags dangling off of them, others not. Sometimes parents had both hands on the handles, other times they were balancing the stroller and a drink or cell phone.
Disney/Pixar’s Up has been the rage of reviews since it opened. Looking fun and having a cool story, I decided to take my 6th grade daughter and her friend last weekend, and was joined by just about every other family [...]
Vicks Vaporub is one of those products that has caused controversy for years in the child health world. While some parents swear by it for helping relieve their children’s nasal congestion caused by typical colds and flus, there’s been a [...]
Peanut butter is once again in the news causing food poisoning from salmonella in 42 states. Unlike the past recalls of retail brands (such as the infamous Peter Pan scare), however, this current outbreak is limited to institutional sales such [...]
It may look cute and cuddly. It may seem like the perfect gift for the biggest Pooh fan in your family. But, did you know this toy is actually dangerous and is on this year’s W.A.T.C.H. (World Against Toys Causing [...]
This is good news after all the recalls and concerns of the past year with so many toys. The proposed law would ban the use of the chemicals in toys we have been most concerned about recently: lead and phthalates. [...]
This is very alarming! There’s been an increase in nursery-related injuries since 2005 that doesn’t seem to be related to product safety. As reported by the Wall Street Journal today, “(n)ursery products were involved in 66,400 injuries that sent children [...]
This story on ABC News yesterday is a good reminder that some toys that appear safe, may not be so. ABC’s JuJu Chang reported about a boy who swallowed a magnet from a Magnetix set that caused severe intestinal perforation. [...]
At work this past weekend, I saw three families who made me wonder: when we talk, what do parents hear? The same could be asked for when TV reporters talk or when authoritative figures like the FDA or the American [...]
