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General Skills of Compassionate Parenting & Effective Discipline

Compassionate Parenting provides a secure emotional base from which children carry out their genetic programs to explore and interact with their environments in safety and protection. At the same time, parents develop the protective, nurturing, and compassionate skills that empower them in all areas of life, including work and health. We simply function at our [...]

Summer Reading at its BEST!

Give me a friendly face combined with superb customer service and I am a lifelong supporter of any business or organization. Summer is in full swing and as my children get older and embrace a love of reading, it is only natural we join a summer reading club. Batavia Library is one of my favorite [...]

Sweet Dreams

SWEET DREAMS…. With the start of Daylight Savings time and summer around the corner, many questions regarding sleep have come up in our office in recent days. Sleep deprivation, accumulated over several days, can be the source of many intensely frustrating behavior problems in children of all ages. Well-rested people learn better and have better [...]

Children up to 2 should face the rear

  The Academy of Pediatrics is now recommending that your child stay rear facing, in a convertible carseat, until they are two years old.  They are also recommending that your child stay in a booster seat until they are 4′ 9″ which will be between the ages of 8 and 12 years old.  Also, that [...]

Vision Theraphy could be what you child needs to improve at school?

By Dr. Carla  D. Adams, Mom and Doctor for Optique EyeCare (www.optique-eyecare.com)           This is the time of the year that we look forward to the holidays, the first snow and it is also the time of the year that school nurses diligently perform “screening eye exams”. Some parents have received a notice that [...]

Car Seat Inspections – A Must

  by Angela Kerulis The statistics are clear, 80% of child safety seats in Illinois are improperly installed.  Are you willing to put your child’s life in danger because you didn’t take the time to have the seat inspected?  The State of Illinois has a four step system categorizing the stages of safety seats. Rear [...]