Are you a good parent?, take the test
1. This holiday season I plan to shop, put out the holdiay decorations and do the cooking baking, while:
a. My partner (grandparents, babysitter) watches the kids
b. When the kids are busy with activites
c. I will have the kids help
d. all of the above
Are you right? See
Kids and Holiday
Giving Thanks
Family Thanksgiving Activities
2. The best toys to get kids are
a. Safe, I know because I checked the recall list
b. Hot this year, the ones everybody is getting
c. Traditional, the ones I liked when I was kid
d. Those approprrate for my child's age
Are you right?, See
recall info
toys by age
3. It's cold and flu season, your child has the sniffles, what do you do
a. Keep them home from school
b. Send them to school unless they have fever
c. Give them over the counter cold medicine
d. teach them to wash their hands, cover their mouth when coughing and other good hygiene measures
Are you right? see
Notes From the School Nurse
Cold and Flu Season
4. You are what you eat, true- false
a. What my adolescent eats can affect their IQ
b. There is no relpacement for rice in the whole grains family
c. Herbs are only for spicy up what we cook
Are you right? see
Adolescent Vegetarians and IQ
Rice, Again?