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As a child, I tiptoed. Not just through the house on Christmas morning but always. It was my trademark, my “funny characteristic” that made people notice me. It got to the point that my mother and grandmother decided it was time to find out why, exactly, I was walking on my toes. They refused to […]
Gift of Play: Zucker Family Gives $5 Million to MUSC for Children’s Play Area Being in the hospital can be a time of anxiety for children. Just ask Laura Zucker, daughter-in-law of local business leader Anita Zucker. By the time she left home for college, she had undergone 18 surgeries to fix a cleft lip […]
You’re Not Going To Like Me Very Much After What I Say Next Lice. Easily one of the worst words a person can hear, it immediately signals our brains to embark on a nonstop assault of our unsuspecting scalps. As a parent, there isn’t a more dreaded call home from the school nurse. Tell me […]
Remember when you were a kid at the dinner table and Mom urged you to eat those Brussels sprouts you’d tried to hide under the corner of your napkin? She might have asked you to “Think of all those starving children in…” some real or fictional developing nation where children your age would clamor for […]
Parenting is a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week challenge. Little ones don’t come with instruction manuals. Parenting is a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week challenge. Little ones don’t come with instruction manuals, and that means lots of questions, often after-hours or on weekends. When your baby has a fever, your toddler seems lethargic or your grade-schooler flips off a skateboard in […]
More than 80 percent of all Americans will experience low back pain at some point during their lifetime. According to Crow and Willis, the economic impact of low back pain in the United States is estimated at $240 billion annually in terms of treatment costs, lost wages and lost productivity. Two common classifications of low […]