Category: Safety tips
Dr. Tanya Altmann’s Tips for Keeping Kid’s Healthy During Cold and Flu Season
0 With germs everywhere and kids in school, sometimes a cold is inevitable, but these are tips Tanya uses at home and with her patients to keep their families as healthy as possible during cold & flu season. Wash your hands. So simple, but so important! Get kids in the habit of washing their hands…
5 Back to School Body Language Tips To Fight Off Bullies
0 Going back to school should be an exciting time in every childs or teens life. They get to see their friends after the summer break and make new ones. However, a lot of students are faced with severe anxiety and stress when a new school year comes around. Whether its facing the school bully,…
Online safety for children, apps that help you prevent cyber dangers
0 There are many articles on cyber safety on the Internet. Nevertheless, there is little information on online safety for children, which should have been covered first of all. According to the recent survey, 56% of children aged 8-12 have a smartphone. They spend approximately 4-7 hours a day online, 80% of the time via…
Stranger Danger!
0 6 tips that your child should be aware of! Thanksgiving and Winter Break will be here before you know it, holiday shopping with crowds of unfamiliar people all about. . . Are your children ready to stay at home or be in the community alone? Take a few minutes to teach your kids these…
Concussions in contact sports
0 Concussion Researchers Consider Initial Results of Monitors Worn by College Athletes Last fall, as concerns about concussions in contact sports amped up for professionals and younger athletes, Cottage Health researchers helped introduce a new monitor that can measure the force of a blow to a players head while also recording an individualized hit count….
Sobering Facts – Local Teen Drinking
0 We recently attended the annual Town Hall Meeting hosted by CADA (Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse). There was a panel of local experts that included an emergency room doctor, the District Attorney, assistant superintendent, high school teenagers, a UCSB student, Youth Service Specialist and a police officer. It would be nice to think…
Process for Teens to get a Drivers License
0 My daughters got their drivers permit this year and it was brand new territory for us to navigate. We found tips from the California DMV on the process so we had a better understanding of what order to do things for California since everything is different from state to state. STEP 1 DMV DRIVER…