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How To Make a Cord Blood Donation

While some parents choose to pay to bank their baby's own umbilical cord stem cells in a private cord blood bank, others make a cord blood donation to a public cord bank for all children to use.

How To Take a Bleach Bath

Dilute bleach baths have long been recommended to help children with recurrent skin infections, especially those with hard to control eczema. Learn the proper way to take a bleach bath with diluted bleach, which can help to prevent infections, including MRSA.

How To Apply Sunscreen on Your Kids

Learn how to properly apply sunscreen on your kids, which can help you to avoid sunburn and that "healthy tan," which, of course, isn't very healthy at all.

How to Wash your Hands Properly

Proper hand washing is an important way to stay healthy year round, helping your kids avoid cold and flu viruses, bacteria that can cause food poisoning and other infections, and germs they can get from their pets or other sick kids.

How To Apply Insect Repellent on Your Kids

Since bites are itchy, even without any worries about health problems, like West Nile Virus, it is a good idea to try to protect your kids from insect bites by learning how to apply an insect repellent properly.

How To Preventing and Avoiding Head Lice

Learn how to prevent and avoid head lice, which is especially important as head lice are getting more difficult to treat these days.

How To Find Head Lice

Learn how to find live head lice and nits on your child's hair, which can be important if you get a note home from school that head lice is going around your child's class.

How To Calculate Your Child's BMI

Your child's BMI (body mass index) is an important tool that you can use to determine if your child is overweight, underweight, or at a healthy weight. Learn how to calculate your child's BMI.