Shakespeare speaks of the seven ages of man, but from the medical point of view man has been considered in three periods: childhood, when we practice pediatrics on him; the grown-up stage, when we have no special term for our procedures; and old age, when we now say that he is a candidate for geriatrics. [...]

Through his research, Dr. Jerome Kagan, a psychologist at Harvard University, found two types of children: One, by the middle of the second year, is timid and shy, fearful and wary. The other is outgoing, sociable, and not easily frightened. Both types can come from similar families.
By school age, half the fearful children Dr. Kagan [...]

When to see your doctor

• if you suspect that this is the first episode of eczema in your child;

• if the rash is weeping or bleeding;

• there is no significant improvement after a few days, despite the measures you usually take for your child’s eczema;

• if your child is having trouble sleeping due to excessive [...]

WATER SAFETY

Drowning is almost always preventable. Always supervise your toddler or young child around water. There is no such thing as ‘drownproofing’ a young child. By all means, take your child swimming with you to get him used to water — most children can begin swimming lessons at preschool or early school age — but [...]

SHORTENING OF REFRACTORY PERIOD: I think I could go again and again. We don’t, but I can have sex and then go into the bathroom and masturbate and then come back and have sex.

I just stop because we stop. I can get ready in a matter of a few minutes, no, seconds. I could do [...]

We just don’t connect. When I say up, she says down. If I’m horny, she’s not, and if she is, I’m not. She says it’s because of my “period.” She says I have worse periods than she does.

DISCONNECTION:

SENSE OF HUMOR, TRAGEDY, VALUES IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT

HUSBAND

CONNECTION:

SENSE OF HUMOR, TRAGEDY, FAIRNESS, VALUES IS THE SAME FOR BOTH [...]

It is hereditary and tends to run in families. It may be brought on, or made worse, by emotional factors, by injury or by infection. It may be mild or severe, be localised to one or two areas or generalised and affect the whole body. It may be stable and chronic or it may be [...]

Many people suffer in bed at night from painful cramps, usually involving the calf muscles or the small muscles in the sole of the foot.

These cramps are not usually related to any underlying problem but are thought to be due to mechanical factors.

With normal muscle tone, each group of muscles has an antagonistic group which [...]

Croup usually develops suddenly and the child, well on gtyng to bed, might wake during the night with the typical croupy cough — a hard “brassy” sound — and have difficulty in breathing. The larynx is swollen and there is marked difficulty in breathing in.

In asthma, by contrast, there is difficulty in breathing out. Normally [...]

 
Signs and symptoms

In severe cases of scoliosis the curvature of the spine can easily be seen when the child stands up. Even a slight curvature may be easy to recognize because the child stands in a hip-shot position, with one hip more prominent than the other. Scoliosis in almost any degree can be observed when [...]