How much time has your child been spending in front of the television, tablet or smartphone since school ended? How much time have they spent reading a book or playing outside?
According to a new joint survey by the YMCA...
Many of us can remember a year or two when we never managed to get the flu shot. We meant to. We thought about it. But it just didn’t happen. Even Mobeen H. Rathore, MD, remembers a year when...
Alternate title: If my house is a hot mess, I'm a hot mess.
I know what you’re thinking: If she has time to pick up her house every day, she must have a lot of time on her hands. Wrong....
If you told me last year that in 2020 I’d be referring to myself as “socially distant” and declining playdate invitations, there’s no way I would have believed you. I’m what you’d call an extreme extrovert — being social...
Wash, brush, floss..flush! As moms, our family's health is our top priority, and questions about local healthcare providers are some of the most common we see from our readers, followers, and hear from our mom friends.
"I'm looking for...
I’ve likely had endometriosis most of my life but didn’t know it. I remember having painful cramps, leg pains, and heavy periods as a teenager that caused me to miss school and extracurricular activities. At the time, my ob/gyn...
I had an eating disorder. This is not easy to admit publicly, or something I have ever admitted publicly, in fact. But I think it's such an important topic and that it's worth unpacking why I struggled, what I...
Neither my husband nor I had glasses as a child. In fact, my vision is still pretty good in my late 40s except for the need to wear readers when I'm working on the computer all day. I can...
August 1, 2014 4:30pm. Your pathology results came back and you have invasive breast cancer, it’s stage 1 grade 3 and hormone receptor positive, blah blah blah….
What. What. Whaaatt?!? Cancer? I couldn’t hear anything else, my mind was racing...
I don’t like washing dishes. It’s hands-down my least favorite chore, but I’ve learned that having a clear sink helps keep me from being stressed in the mess of my home. I don’t think it's the act of washing dishes...
I was 5 years old the first time I called 911. I was 10 when I thought I would become an orphan at the hands of my stepfather. I was 13 when I made my first police report and...
It's time to lace up those costumes, secure those wigs and put your fastest foot forward! This year’s Monster Mash Dash 5K will take place on Friday, October 16th at the Jacksonville Fairgrounds Exhibition Hall and is bound to...