Why You Should Never Make Your Own Baby Formula
Photo: New Africa (Shutterstock) When you make food for yourself, there’s never much harm in experimenting. Even if you completely screw up the recipe, you can probably still eat it…
Everything You Never Thought You’d Need to Know About Adult Ear Infections
Photo: Andrey_Popov (Shutterstock) Some medical incidents are inextricably linked to the childhood experience: Kids throw up a lot for some reason, they skin their knees, they have their tonsils removed,…
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How to Parent With Depression
Photo: KieferPix (Shutterstock) Everyone has awful days, sad days, and even terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days, but depression is a mental illness classified as persistent feelings of sadness,…
How to Get Cell Phone Insurance for Free
Photo: Andrey_Popov (Shutterstock) Are you constantly worried about dropping your phone or it getting stolen? Maybe you already pay out of pocket each month for cell phone insurance, which at…
There’s No Such Thing As a ‘Clean’ Toothbrush
Photo: Bilanol (Shutterstock) There are two types of people in the world. The type who thoughtlessly store their toothbrushes out in the open, in the same bathroom that harbors a…
How Young Is Too Young to Run a Marathon?
Photo: mooinblack (Shutterstock) Recently a family in Kentucky has found itself in the center of controversy for allowing their 6-year-old son to participate in the Flying Pig Marathon in Cincinnati…
How to Recognize the Signs of Parental Burnout (and What to Do About It)
Photo: True Touch Lifestyle (Shutterstock) If you have parented children—especially young ones—during the past two years of the pandemic, you are likely feeling, shall we say, tired. All parents have…
Stop Refrigerating Your Watermelon
Photo: Africa Studio (Shutterstock) Summer is on its way, but the weather here in the PNW is doing its hardest to convince me otherwise. Constant drizzle punctuated by torrential downpours,…
How to Know If Your Symptoms Are Bad Enough to See an Allergist
Photo: Budimir Jevtic (Shutterstock) So you’re sneezing and rubbing your eyes this allergy season. Who isn’t? Allergies are common enough that many of us can manage our symptoms with over-the-counter…