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Children with cerebral palsy spasticity who’ve been selected for Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR) surgery at St. Louis Children’s Hospital benefit from the latest technology and access to some of the world’s leading neurosurgery specialists. Learn more about what to expect before, during and after your SDR surgery.

Parenting Advice 10 Things Every Parent Needs to Know – 10 lessons from 10 parents around the world The Parenting Junkie shares with us global parenting advice and parenting tips from 10 parents around the world. In this video you’ll hear each parent share 10 things every parent needs to know. In this video about

How to Get Kids to Listen (without yelling, bribing, or threatening!) The Parenting Junkie shows how to get kids to listen. When our children don’t do what we say it can be maddening. You may find yourself resorting to bribes, threats, and even yelling but after the fact still wondering how to get kids to

The emergency room can be an overwhelming and intimidating place, especially for kids. However, it’s essential for both parents and their kids to keep calm. Dr. Jamie Kondis offers her advice for how parents can provide comfort to kids in addition to encouraging parents to use the resource of child life specialists. Subscribe to our

Parents want to raise emotionally healthy kids. The key to healthy emotional development in children is helping them recognize different emotions and learn how to handle those emotions in healthy ways. What is NOT healthy is teaching children to avoid certain emotions. For example, there was a time when boys were told not to cry.

Join the Play Pandemic Challenge → https://theparentingjunkie.com/challenge THE MINIMALIST NEWBORN (THE ESSENTIALS YOU DON’T NEED) The Parenting Junkie has embraced the minimalist newborn. What are minimalist newborn essentials, you may ask. Let’s consider the minimalist newborn wardrobe and minimalist newborn must haves. Does a minimalist newborn diaper bag necessary? What does a minimalist newborn clothes

Summer is a time to run around, play, and have fun outdoors, but as the 4th of July approaches, it’s important to understand when fireworks can damage hearing. Fireworks are fun, but not always safe for kids. Dr. Maithilee Menezes, Otolaryngologist at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, warns against exposure to close-up, large, and loud explosions

Some children say no to everything, such as eating food or taking a bath. This effective activity especially helps younger children. Visit http://www.smarterparenting.com/ for more activities, parenting skills and parenting help.

How can you, as a parent, help comfort your child’s broken heart after they go through a breakup? Few experiences are as emotionally intense for teens as a broken heart. Teen breakups can be difficult to navigate for children, and also their parents. As a parent, it’s important to know how to respond. In this

What can you do when you’re constantly feeling frustrated, irritated and victimized? Learn about the tremendous power of Self Talk! #peacefulparenting VLOG, BOOK & TOY RECOMMENDATIONS HERE: www.theparentingjunkie.com F A C E B O O K: (Cuz I post inspiring, uplifting things there!) http://www.facebook.com/theparentingjunkie FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/parentingjunkie For more peacefulparenting: “Peaceful Parents, Happy

What is Anxiety? Anxiety is a condition where someone feels uncontrollable panic, stress, worry, and nervousness related to future events, recollections of past events, or constant thinking of daily activities. These feelings are persistent and overwhelming and interfere with daily life. This can be fear of things both real or imagined. Often, this leads to

Out of around 60 species of spiders that bite humans, only the black widow and brown recluse can be fatal. Dr. Jamie Kondis, Pediatrician at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, walks through what you need to know about spider bites, including how to identify them, what steps to take if your child is bitten, and how

HOW NOT TO TALK TO KIDS The Parenting Junkie knows first hand how not to talk to kids. With four little kids at home, mindful parenting and teaching mindfulness to kids by example is top priority. But mainstream parenting is saying the opposite! Do you want see mindful parenting compared to mainstream parenting advice? It’s

Parenting defiant behavior in ODD child can be frustrating. Smarter Parenting is here to help with ODD focused information. ODD is basically defiant behavior where a child constantly fights you when when asked to follow instructions. Often just a simple ask can set a child off. All children struggle doing what their parent ask them

The Parenting Junkie discusses how to reconnect with your spouse even when you are feeling disconnected. Reconnecting with your spouse is essential in a blissful marriage. To reconnect with your spouse emotionally after spending time away from each other watch this. It’s important to reconnect especially when feeling resentful and disconnected. By holding your partner’s

Meet June and St. Louis Children’s Hospital Music Therapist, Christy Merrell and learn about how music therapy had a profound impact on June’s recovery. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: http://bit.ly/2vHvSCw Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stlchildrens Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/STLChildrens Learn More About Donating on YouTube: https://support.google.com/youtube/?p=donate_FAQ’

Have you ever become frustrated when your child has misbehaved? We have. Even the best parents can lose their temper when their child doesn’t listen or throws a tantrum because parenting is stressful and somehow our kids seem to know how to push our buttons. As parents ourselves, we know you don’t want to be

I assumed we could get by with my patchwork network of hand-me-down strollers until our kids were of a more walkable age—but I was so wrong. Earlier this year, I made the tremendously huge mistake of taking my two-year-old daughter and four-year-old son to the park near our house, with only one small, fold-up stroller—the

Meet Dr. Pirooz Eghtesady, Washington University pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.