Drs. Scott Goldstein and Rebecca Unger hosted a discussion about behavior and discipline concerns for children of all ages. Here are the questions that came up during our conversation, and our answers/advice for each question.
A fitness project for the whole family. Check out this illustrated outdoor obstacle course that can be done by anyone, in any season, Just start by stepping out your front door! We also included an indoor obstacle course for your family.
Melissa Shaw, MS3 student at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, along with Dr Rebecca Unger discuss the temptations and hazards of the most frequent teenage vaping habit, JUULing.
Oby Ekwueme, MS3/MPH student at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Dr Rebecca Unger offer a developmental approach to helping children and families understand safe media use.
Acts of kindness have psychosocial benefits, however there is also evidence that there are also physical health benefits. Dr Rebecca Unger describes the benefits of being kind, as well as offers practical advice for families to promote kindess.
Dr. Marc Weissbluth, the founding member of the Northwestern Children's Practice, wrote a blog for the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital about sleep training tips.
For teenagers, a healthy dose of physical activity and participation in family and community activities is a recipe for illness prevention, obesity prevention, and reducing risk-taking behaviors.
Karen Pierce, MD, a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Northwestern University, joined us at our Brown Bag Chat to talk about strategies and tools to help parents and families identify and manage anxiety
A review of studies about family meals indicates that frequent family meals are not only associated with better nutritional value and meal structure, but also many positive psychosocial outcomes
Ready for an adventure? Looking for a family activity that tickles everyone’s fancy? Want to run away from screen time for an afternoon? A post written by Terry Kass and Rebecca Unger MD
