Real-life advice for caring for sick children at home. From medicine-taking tips and comfort measures to recovery foods, hydration, and practical parenting strategies, these posts help families support children through illness, healing, and recovery with less stress and more confidence.
There are few things in this world more heart wrenching than watching your young child in pain. Moms are supposed to be able to fix everything. Those little pain wracked eyes plead with you to take it away but when it comes to chronic pain–you just can’t. This is the case with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis….
Wouldn’t it be fabulous if our kids never got sick? Unfortunately, sickness happens from time to time, especially during school, cold, and flu season. While we can’t prevent every cough, stomach bug, or runny nose, a few simple habits can help reduce how often germs take over your house. And for the illnesses you can’t…
One of the great things about social media is you can easily see what illnesses are spreading in your area. The past week or so, I have seen countless updates about a stomach bug here in Florida. A couple of weeks a go, a nasty cold virus swept through our house twice. Cold weather (well…
It took a couple of years to diagnose Pea’s Juvenile Arthritis. I went through a few specialists that weren’t really a good fit to get to the ones we have now. When she was younger the pain was intermittent and unpredictable. Plus, she was too young to verbally communicate what was bothering her. [bctt tweet=”The…
I haven’t written about Juvenile Arthritis is a while. Why? Because we haven’t had any juvenile arthritis flares. JA can be tricky like that. It slinks back into it’s little hidey-hole only to charge back into our life when we least expect it. But last week, I walked into the living room to find my…