Tuesdays are Your Turn – Baby and Toddler Suspicions
I write a lot about parents’ instincts and those gut feelings we all have when it comes to just plain old raising children and also the more complicated subtleties of kids’ medical treatment. Now be...
View ArticleTuesdays are Your Turn – Allergy Testing
From my email: My daughter has had asthma for 3 years and this had been quite an learning experience. I am curious if other families have had their kid allergy tested and if they found that beneficial?...
View ArticleTuesdays are Your Turn – Bronchodilators and Coughs
This is a long one from my email, but please take the time to read the whole thing. It raises lots of questions that many other parents of young asthma kids have (I had them.): If my asthmatic child is...
View ArticleAsthma Mom’s Rules for Bedroom Dust
I’ve been living the dust mite prevention life for so long, sometimes I forget that families new to asthma don’t necessarily know about the more subtle ways to battle this allergen. You probably...
View ArticleTuesdays are Your Turn – Starting Sports
People in my face-to-face life don’t always know I own this site. It’s not a secret, exactly, but while I’m comfortable plastering my kid’s early medical history all over the Internet in a...
View ArticleMilestone
Just so you all know. I was working on a freelance article recently, and I had to read through the descriptions of asthma severity to refresh my memory. I read, I wrote, and then I realized: AG doesn’t...
View ArticleFriday Links – North American Asthma Care, Childhood Rates, Emotional Impacts
U.S. Asthma Care: Still Lacking 71% of these study participants had poorly controlled asthma, but 64% of them thought it was well controlled. Clearly, there’s a disconnect here somewhere. Canadian Kids...
View ArticleConversations with My Asthma Tween
Let me tell you a little bit about the stage I’ve reached with my kid. First off, a little recent background: My mother came to Colorado for Thanksgiving, meaning I hosted for everyone this year....
View ArticleTuesdays are Your Turn – Missing Your Kid
This morning, Mr. Asthma Mom said two things about our firstborn – or lack thereof – that made me laugh. The first: This house sure is quiet without her walking around and singing everywhere. It...
View ArticleTuesdays are Your Turn – Time and Kids’ Control
From the ‘ole inbox: I’m in the middle of trying to help my daughter right now. She’s 4 and just got diagnosed after seeming to be sick all the time. Right now we’re trying to get used to the fact of...
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