All Ohio schools closed. Bars, restaurants eat-in dining rooms shuttered. Sports and other events cancelled. COVID-19 has changed every family’s daily routine, activities and even their spring break travel plans for the foreseeable future. We’re quarantined in our homes with no place to go. Parents are stressed, while kids are fighting boredom. Now what? “Through […]
Archives for March 2020
Coronavirus Q&A: Answers to your top 10 questions
Akron Children’s Hospital Pediatrician Dr. Sarah Adams shares insight on COVID-19 and how to protect your family. How is COVID-19 different from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Ebola and other global outbreaks? Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that are common in people and many different species of animals. Human coronaviruses can cause mild […]
Tips to make a good night’s sleep a priority
If you or your children are tired or cranky during the day, it’s time to make some changes. In observation of the annual Sleep Awareness Week, Jamie Travis, PhD offers some strategies parents can encourage for a good night’s sleep for the whole family. “Our environment can impact how we sleep,” said Dr. Travis, a […]
Entrepreneur hopes to turn t-shirt sales into a new NICU bed
Linda Barton has a passion for taking something old and making it new again. She’s doing it with her Western Pennsylvania century home that she’s refurbishing, and she’s doing it in the business world with a vintage t-shirt business she’s building. Her first product is a line of original-design t-shirts marking the 100-year anniversary of […]
What parents should know about novel coronavirus
Large cities on lockdown. Flights suspended. A rising death toll … a global health emergency. The headlines are anxiety-producing, even for those oceans away from the epicenter of this health crisis. And now the first cases and deaths in the United States have been reported. The spread of a novel strain of coronavirus (COVID-19), first […]
Family of 5 has brittle bone disease, unbreakable spirits
In early 2017, Kristen MacKellar had just finished nursing her 3-month-old baby boy to sleep. A snuggly baby, she typically nursed Samuel in her bed and later transferred him to his crib for safe sleep. Though on this day, he was especially tired and she didn’t want to disturb him. But when she stepped away […]
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