Last week, my #2 had BluTac in his hair and he didn’t know how he got it, who stuck it in his hair, and didn’t even realised he had BluTac in his hair until he washed his hair. It was a moment of panic when we both thought I had to snip away a bunch of hair. I tried to
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What do you do when your child is scalded? We will assume it is a small patch on the hand and not a serious scalding involving the whole body, and we will assume the liquid is a bowl of hot chinese dessert. 1. Wipe away the dessert with a towel? 2. Soak hand in ice water or a bucket of
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If you are a parent, chances are, you would have experienced a bombardment of parenting advice, whether from parenting books you read, parenting courses you attend, well-meaning friends, relatives, or even strangers on the street. If you have been a parent for a while, by now, you should know that some advice conflict with others. The truth of the matter
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What would you do if your child’s nose is bleeding? 1. Clean up the blood? 2. Make the child lie down flat or make the child look up, tilting his head back, until the bleeding stops? I know these are the things that older folks would do. Somehow, without questioning, we following the same procedures. It was only when Dominic
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