Erin Walsh, co-founder of Spark and Stitch Institute, is a parent, speaker, educator, and writer. She has worked with communities across the country who want to better understand child and adolescent development and cut through conflicting information about kids and technology. Check out her blog Read More
Televisits
For a lot of us, the way we perform our work looks much different than it did a year and a half ago. The concept of working from home was frequently discussed but infrequently put into practice. Delivery of groceries and online shopping has taken on a whole new meaning. Covid has Read More
Asthma
Asthma is a disease of the lungs, and the most common chronic disease in children. Common symptoms of asthma include wheezing, cough, chest tightness, and trouble breathing. Asthma is likely caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors, so it can run in families. Genetically, asthma, Read More
October Is SIDS Awareness Month
SIDS. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Those words bring fear to parents and pediatricians everywhere. By definition, SIDS is the unexplained death of an infant under one year old. For most of us, it is the unexplained and unpredictable part that is so tragic. Research does suggest that many of these Read More
Illness Trends in the Office
Pediatricians look forward to the week after Labor Day. Kids go back to school, giving a slow down to the crazy pace of summer physical season. Germs haven’t had time to circulate amongst classrooms and families. We breathe in the sweet air of September and gear up for the winter sick Read More
Back to School With Delta
Summer in Minnesota is always my favorite time of year. I look forward to lazy days spent in the sunshine on a lake. This year was even a little sweeter because the beginning of the summer coincided with a drop in the Covid-19 cases. For many people, the masks came off and people gathered again with Read More