Pediatric psoriasis is difficult for kids to live with. Most notably because the red, scaly plaques that are the condition’s calling card can not only be physically uncomfortable but draw unwanted attention. And when you’re a kid, that’s the last thing you want which may be why adolescents with psoriasis tend to have increased levels of depression and anxiety, according to research published in
Anais Brasileiros De Dermatologia. “When attention is brought to an area, [a child] can feel embarrassed or ashamed, which can often lead to feelings of anxiety and isolation,” says Johanna Kaplan, Ph.D., clinical psychologist and director of Washington Anxiety Center of Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
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20 Woman-Owned Businesses to Support on International Women s Day
Celebrate International Women s Day by patronizing any one (or all!) of these woman-owned businesses. Share Updated: 3:11 PM EST Mar 4, 2021 Danielle Campoamor
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MiliMili
MiliMili, a Los Angeles-based cribwear and nursery line, was founded by Kelsey Searless and Rose Bridges. The brand produces soft-goods like sleep sacks and crib sheets with colorful, artful, and vacation-inspired prints. We strongly believe that nurseries don t have to be decorated in pastels, neutral, or covered in baby bunnies rather, they can reflect a family s vibrant, playful, and modern style, Searless tells Woman s Day. Rose and I were lucky to be raised by strong, creative, women with bold senses of style who helped set the foundation for our entrepreneurial journey into the world of colorful and modern sleep sacks and nursery g
By Pooja Makhijani | Jan 08, 2021
Despite advances in gender equity, women do a significantly larger share of unpaid labor in the home an inequity only exacerbated by the pandemic. It’s no wonder, then, that mothers remain the primary readership for parenting books.
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The Working Mom Blueprint, which American Academy of Pediatrics will publish in May, Whitney Casares provides tips on balancing parenting and paid labor outside the home. Barrett Winston, senior manager of publishing acquisitions and business development at AAP, explains that the book is atypical for the publisher in that it centers on the care of the parent, rather than the child, and stresses self-compassion. “[Casares] says there are ways to be kind to yourself and be generous,” Winston says. “Women do take on most of the emotional life of the family. There are strategies you can take to balance it. The advice and mantras in the book are evergreen, but needed more than ever right now.�
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s 2020 winds down, we asked our regular columnist pediatrician Matt Thompson for a New Year s reading list for parents of kids at various stages of development. As the pandemic continues, We should all have plenty of time to read this winter, he writes. Here are some books I recommend for parents. Some are newer than others, but they are all good reads. It should be noted that Thompson himself is a fairly prolific author, having written more than 60 columns on all sorts of issues parents face. Among the most shared are Helping Kids Feel Secure from 2016, Teen Tune-Up from 2014 and 2012 s Unleash the Monster, a treatise on relieving childhood constipation. Since 2008, his work has appeared in nearly every issue of