Pediatrics

early language

Navigating Early Language Milestones

During the first several years of life, a child undergoes impressively rapid and extensive growth, development, and learning to achieve different types of developmental milestones, including physical, emotional, social, cognitive, and language. Reaching appropriate language milestones is vital to a child’s ability to communicate and interact, and their social and emotional development largely depends upon

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The Importance of Unstructured Play

Kids today hear lots of stories about their parents and grandparents exploring their neighborhoods, trying to build treehouses in the summer, and spending hours practicing make-believe in the backyard. In other words, kids today hear about unstructured play, but they don’t experience it as commonly as today’s adults did during their childhoods. Although parents have

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Newborn Reflexes

Decoding Newborn Reflexes

Sweet blinking, cute head turning, grasping, and other movements all make new parents fall even deeper in love with their babies. What many parents don’t realize about their baby’s movements is that they are mostly involuntary. Up until about a year after birth, many of an infant’s movements are actually newborn reflexes.  What Are Newborn

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The Art of Balancing Academics and Extracurriculars

Children and teens can glean a myriad of academic, social, and personal benefits from extracurricular activities. Also called enrichment activities, extracurriculars can include activities such as sports, before-and-after-school programs, educational clubs, student government, private lessons, tutoring, and community service.  The Benefits of Extracurricular Activities On the personal and social front, extracurriculars enrich the lives of

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