Kids

Hepatitis A usually lasts several weeks, but prolonged or relapsing disease can last as long as 6 months.

Meningitis is a disease that is passed from person to person in close contact with mouth and nasal secretions.

Avoiding drugs is a lesson all children should learn. Those in younger grades need only the basics.

A mother wants to know how to explain sex to her five-year-old in a way that's appropriate to her age.

An expert explains why punishing a child for refusing to sleep in his own bedroom will not change his behavior.

The desire not to bring your kids sadness on Christmas is understandable, but it is more harmful to ignore their loss.

The best treatment for eczema is to control the environmental things that irritate the disease, such as avoiding contact with things known to trigger itching and scratching.

If a three-year-old enjoys playing with a computer, he certainly should be allowed to be curious about it and enjoy what pleasure it can afford him.

An expert advises against any formal computer training for a three-year-old -- not now, and not for many, many years.

Many child safety advocates have argued that any child ID should not be visible or easily accessible to others; the fear of child abduction has spawned these fears.

At age 14, many teens demonstrate this type of behavior with their younger siblings.

A mother seeks advice on how to change her daughter's tendency to place her interests and happiness below those of others.

Our expert is concerned that a parent's attempts to correct a "listening" problem appear to be forms of punishment.

A parents wants to know how to teach her 11-year-old son to deal with his anger and respond appropriately to kids who pick on him.

A mother wonder how she can get her six-year-old daughter with Down Syndrome to cooperate on routine tasks like dressing and eating.

The unfortunate reality about being a small boy in this culture is that one will most likely receive jibes for it throughout childhood.

When a child has trouble with classmates, it helps to look for friendships outside of school -- in social, civic, athletic, religious, and volunteer kids' groups.

An expert explains how to handle inappropriate outbursts from a ten-year-old.