Tips from A - Z to Keep Your Kids Healthy
Nobody really wants to talk or think about poo, but as I said in my last post on Constipation, it can tell us a lot about how well our kids are digesting their food and if their body is reactive to foods they’re eating. In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) the smell, shape, color and firmness … [Continue reading]
Spring is now here more for some of us then others, hopefully things will start to warm up a bit more. Are you looking forward to the April showers, I know my boys are. Kids just love to play in the rain or the muddy puddles after it’s rained. While we wait for the weather to make up its mind here … [Continue reading]
Allergy season is a time when nosebleeds, also known as epistaxis, occur often. Your child may have a spontaneous nosebleed, bleed after blowing … [Continue reading]
In my last post, Opting Out Part 1: Parents Fed Up with 'Conventional' Medicine and "The Look", I examined the common frustrations parents have … [Continue reading]
Parents today are faced with many challenges and obstacles in their quest to raise happy and healthy children. We get conflicting messages all the … [Continue reading]
Growing pains refer to deep muscle aches or, according to Web MD, “stretching [of ] the bone's thick covering” (1). This may be due to rapid … [Continue reading]
Your health, healing, the food you eat and the things you put on your body are extremely important, even vital to the prevention of illness. That's … [Continue reading]
Trying to have a plan for dinner every night is not as easy as it sounds! If you’re a busy mom like me you know what I mean. I work, run a blog, … [Continue reading]
Asthma is a serious problem in the United States and around the world. Today 9 million children in the U.S. suffer from asthma -- that’s a 75% … [Continue reading]
Time just seems to be flying by and it’s already the end of another month! I’m excited for spring to get here because that means more yummy … [Continue reading]
You’ve joined the mommy club and gone through a labor of love. Now you have this precious angel to care for. A person in your life that you love … [Continue reading]
Every customer who pre-orders a copy of Kristen Michaelis' book Beautiful Babies: Nutrition for Fertility, Pregnancy, Breast-feeding, and Baby's … [Continue reading]
Pediatric tuina massage, or Chinese infant massage, has been used for thousands of years in the East to keep kids healthy and treat illness. This … [Continue reading]
With all the media coverage exploding over the flu epidemic that’s sweeping the nation, it got me asking "What can we do to “flu proof” our … [Continue reading]
This is my first ever giveaway and I wanted to give you two books that I have found SUPER valuable over the years. I refer to them all the time in … [Continue reading]
January 2013 has been an unofficial relaunch of my Kids+Love+Acupuncture blog! I started it over a year and a half ago after I had a Kids Love … [Continue reading]
Everything that goes in must come out. So, it’s time to talk poo! If you’re a parent I’m sure you have a funny or gross poo story (usually … [Continue reading]
There are seven basic tuina massage techniques you can use to treat your child’s constipation. Whether it’s from acute illness and fever or more … [Continue reading]
Every cold and flu season many children come down with a head cold that results in a cough. Coughing can be uncomfortable and downright irritating if … [Continue reading]
There are five basic tuina massage techniques you can use to treat your child’s cough, no matter what kind they have: wet, dry, hacking, barking, … [Continue reading]
Thank you for visiting my blog. I'm Robin, a mother of two boys, an acupuncturist, and a realistic renegade. It’s not surprising that I like to live just outside the proverbial box but at the same time I'm into practical and down-to-earth solutions. Read More...
