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The staff at POD looks forward to Spring Break every year. In years past, this generally marks the end to the cold and flu season! (We’re not so sure this year.) But with half the doctors out of town, it was time for the staff to have some fun!

If you were here for a visit, you might have seen a super hero, a Disney character or two, and a hula hoop contest. With the relaxed atmosphere, it was a much needed break for the staff.

The staff at POD looks forward to Spring Break every year. In years past, this generally marks the end to the cold and flu season! (We’re not so sure this year.) But with half the doctors out of town, it was time for the staff to have some fun!

If you were here for a visit, you might have seen a super hero, a Disney character or two, and a hula hoop contest. With the relaxed atmosphere, it was a much needed break for the staff.

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Watkins’s Ideas About When To Start Kindergarten

It's probably the wrong time of year to be addressing this issue, but in recent weeks I've seen a lot of five and six year-olds getting ready to start Kindergarten. Most were very excited and I was excited for them too. Also anxious. I hope they have a great experience, a wonderful, memorable year, but, like their parents, there's always the worry that a bad first experience at 'real school' will color forever their attitude about school.

Watkins’s Ideas About Some of the Modeling We Do for Our Children

Ever wanted to be a model? You are one! Children learn, of course, from what we tell them, but so much more often, and more effectively, from how we act. I am sometimes asked how best to react when a child complains of vague and essentially non-worrisome complaints. Almost every parent hears these from time to time: stomach aches, leg pains, headaches, annoying itches or feelings of dizziness or light-headedness. All these complaints might be signs of serious illness, but more often they aren't and most of the time parents know this.

Watkins’ Ideas About Tummy Time

Work on those Abs! Disclaimer: I'm not sure if my partners will agree with me on this one, but they let me write what I like. Just don't assume they agree. In the late nineteen eighties, reports began to appear in the medical literature that Sudden Infant Death Syndrome was less common in infants that slept on their backs. This information was, at the time, mostly disregarded in the United States, as the long custom in this country was to have babies sleep on their tummies and logic seemed to suggest that that would be the safest position. Although we have known for a long time that regurgitation was not the cause of SIDS, the lack of a real answer left most of us thinking that better safe than sorry, don't risk choking, have babies sleep prone, on their tummies.

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