Spot light

Resources are available on many topics to help keep your family healthy and safe. Key topics include:

• Bronchiolitis (#1250).
• Bullying (#1234).
• Colds (#1898).
• Conjunctivitis (#1943)
• Snacks (#1470).
• Strep throat (#1841).

You can learn about these topics, and many others, by visiting the Patient Handouts/Teaching Sheets section of the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin website. Type in the key topic or number of the handout.

News and recommendations
The American Academy of Pediatrics officially changed its car seat recommendations. The new policy now recommends that children should remain in rear-facing car seats until the age of 2. While this recommendation is the best practice, the Wisconsin law minimum requirement states that infants under the age of 1 year always ride in a car seat facing the rear of the car in the back seat. When children older than age 1 and weighing 20-40 lbs. outgrow the carrier-type infant seat, they should move to a convertible seat that is used rear-facing. This convertible seat should stay rear facing until the child reaches the weight listed on the seat. At that time it can be turned to face forward.

Southeast Regional Center
The Southeast Regional Center serves families and providers who care for children and youth birth to 21 years of age with special health care needs. Examples of special health care needs include cerebral palsy, cancer, diabetes, autism, severe asthma, developmental delay, hearing loss and many others. The center serves families and providers in the following counties:  Jefferson, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Walworth, Washington and Waukesha. 

Booster and car seat fitting stations.

Make sure your child is riding safely.

Updated information on swine flu.

Healthy Children from American Academy for Pediatrics
HealthyChildren.org offers advice for parents and caregivers. Find information on health issues, safety, nutrition and more.

Love and Logic
Looking forward to some summer fun with your child(ren)? You may be interested in this nationally-recognized program recommended by parents and educators. Love and Logic promotes responsibility and respect in children. More information.

Books of interest

• All Grown Up and No Place to Go, David Elkind.
• Caring for Your Adolescent, American Academy of Pediatrics.
• Caring for Your Infant and Young Child, AAP.
• Caring for Your School Age Child, AAP.
• The Difficult Child, Stanley Turecks.
• Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, Benjamin Spock, MD.
• The First Three Years of Life, Burton White.
• Guide to Your Child's Sleep, AAP.
• How to Get Your Kid to Eat...But Not Too Much, Ellyn Satter.
• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk, Adelle
  Faber and Elain Mazlish.
• Hurried Child, David Elkind.
• Instructions for Pediatric Patients, Barton Schmidt, MD.
• Made Here, Baby, Bruce Wolk.
• The Magic Years, Selma Frailberg.
• The Nursing Mother's Companion, Kathleen Huggins.
• Practical Advice for Parents, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.
• Practical Advice for Parents of Teens, Children's Hospital.
• Raising Your Spirited Child, Mary Sheedy Kurcinua.
• Redirecting Children's Behavior, Kathryn Kvols.
• The Sleep Book for Tired Parents, Rebecca Huntley.
• Solve Your Child's Sleep Problem, Richard Ferber.
• What Every Parent Should Know, Paul A. Offit, MD, and Louis M. Bell, MD.