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- The simplest way is to double the child's height at age 2.
- Another trick is to look on a gender-appropriate growth chart for the child's height percentile at age 2 and then look at the height for that same percentile for age 18 year.
- Lastly, for boys, you can add 5 inches to the mom's height and then average that number with the dad's height. For girls, you have to subtract 5 inches from the dad's height and then average it with the mother's height.

IIn general, tics are worst when kids are tired or stressed. Children with tics have little control over them. Medicine is used only when they are severe enough to interfere with functioning. There are therapy techniques to help treat tics as well. Good luck.View Thread






Normally, the best way to train a child for BM's is to take advantage of the gastro-colic reflex - which is the body's natural urge to make a BM after a meal. Experts recommend having you daughter sit on the toilet for 5-10 minutes while you engage in an enjoyale activity like telling her a story or reading a picture book. You can also create a positive incentive with some small gift-wrapped items -- such as trinkets from a party store. Edible rewards can also be effective.
One other option: assuming she is not just soiling on the sheets and that you can get her to accept the pull-up (again with praise and rewards), you could just wait a few months and then try again in 2-3 months.View Thread


- Have the doctors tried giving your child a once-daily antibiotic as a preventative treatment for ear infections?
- Is it possible to get a third opinion from a different ENT?
- Are these ENT doctors pediatric specialists? If not, I would go to the trouble to see a pediatric ENT.
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