THE KID’S DOCTOR: Intranasal steroid sprays approved for children with allergies
When considering allergy medications for your child, consult your pediatrician.
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Health & Advice
What is Personal Power?
By Sherry BrantleySTART TO EXERCISE
PERSONAL POWER
What is Personal Power and how do we go about ‘tapping’ into it? First of all, it is a Spiritual Power that we all literally have within us.
Interpersonal Edge: Your coworkers’ prickliness is about them, not you
By Dr. Daneen SkubeTribune Content Agency
Q. The people I work with seem rarely to take the way they affect me into account. Why do they think so little of me? How can I work well with others when they appear to have no interest in my needs?
Jill on Money: How to spend your tax refund – responsibly
By Jill Schlesinger
Tribune Content Agency
The IRS says about 82 million taxpayers have received an average refund of about $2,800. Although many love the concept found money, a refund is really just the return of a yearlong, interest-free loan that you extended to Uncle Sam.
Congratulations on your Student Loan DEBT… It has Increased!
By Porsche Miles-Grant
Did you know that the college graduates of 2015 made history by having the most student loan debt? In 2015, the average student loan debt totaled to 35k. In past years, student loan debt ranged anywhere from 26k-28k on average.
Interpersonal Edge: Workplace friendships are different from those in private life
By Dr. Daneen SkubeTribune Content Agency
Q. I’m a very loyal person, and I have a hard time with the rapid coming and going of people in the workplace. I enjoy long-term relationships, and it just seems like I get whiplash watching the turn over at work. How do you recommend your clients handle their personal attachments to people at work?
THE KID’S DOCTOR: Early talkers are few but mighty
There are few children who are speaking in full sentences by the time they are 18 to 24 months.
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By Sue Hubbard, M.D.
Is your child a precocious talker? Most children start to acquire words around 12 to 15 months, but that means five to 10 words and building. By the time children are 18 months old, they are often mimicking when you ask them to say a word, and some are putting two words together.
Jill on Money: Onus is on students, parents to nail down college costs
By Jill Schlesinger
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College acceptances are in, and now the hard part: figuring out how to pay for it! With the cost of tuition, fees, room and board at public four-year colleges running around $20,000 – and up to $70,000 for some elite private schools – how can families foot the steep education bill?
THE KID’S DOCTOR: Caring for kids with strep throat
A rapid strep test entails having a swabbed specimen taken from the throat.
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Jill on Money: Free trade: Good or bad for America?
By Jill Schlesinger
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There has been a lot of trash talk about U.S. trade policy this political season. Candidates Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump have led the rallying cries about how trade deals have killed U.S. jobs and upended the economy, which is a great way to incite disgruntled voters. However, as always, the facts are a bit murkier.