Opinion
Tap of the brakes on gender-affirming care
It seems to me a thorough and sensitively done mental health evaluation might minimize the collateral damage from some gender-affirming care and...
Opinion
Perinatal research and the Tooth Fairy
Those little bits of enamel long-forgotten may hold the answers to a plethora of unanswered questions about those critical months surrounding the...
Opinion
Time to attack hypoactivity in our children
Our sedentary lifestyles are shortening our lives and launching our children into adulthood burdened with a raft of health risks they could...
Opinion
You’ve been uneasy about the mother’s boyfriend: This may be why
Recently, a professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University discovered a specific set of neurons in the mouse brain that...
Opinion
Pandemic goal deficiency disorder
Articulating a national goal that covers both communities where the response to the pandemic has been less thoughtful and robust along with states...
News
A pediatrician notices empty fields
It may be that after years of sitting in front of a video screen, too many children have settled into the role of being spectators and find the...
Opinion
A long look at long haulers
I suspect we will find that pediatric “long haulers” and their adult counterparts do not differ in most respects.
Opinion
Not so fast food
If we think nutrition and physical activity are important components of our children’s educations then we must make the time necessary to provide...
Opinion
Masking in school: A battle of the op-eds
Vaccination should continue to be considered our primary tool in prevention and control of COVID-19, and children need to be in school. As for...
Opinion
Reappraisal as a way to cope with pandemic news
Reappraisal is an intervention that encourages individuals to think differently about their current situation in hopes of improving their...
Opinion
Nowhere to run and nowhere to hide
My standard recommendation of a time-out can be difficult to follow for a family of six living in a three-room apartment, particularly during...
Opinion
A pediatrician wonders about the influence of an unhappy teacher
Teachers are nearly twice as likely to experience job stress and almost three times as likely to experience depression than the general adult...
Opinion
The challenge of poverty to health and success: What should pediatricians do?
Maybe if we worked harder to foster and support two-parent families the drag of economic disadvantage would be reduced.
Opinion
Rethinking your journey to work every day
The pandemic has been a wake-up call for many of the fortunate folks who have found that they can work from home, eliminating what may have been a...
Opinion
Coping with postpandemic school hesitancy
For the children who have always been a bit ambivalent about school either because they were anxious in social situations or because they found...