Your Childs Health or Unholy Ghost

Your Child's Health: The Parents' One-Stop Reference Guide to: Symptoms, Emergencies, Common Illnesses, Behavior Problems, and Healthy Development

Author: Barton D Schmitt

Emergencies:
--when to call your child's physician immediately
-what to do in case of burns, bites, stings, poisoning, choking, and injuries
Common Illnesses:
-when it's safe to treat your child at home
-step-by-step instructions on dealing with fever, infections, allergies, rashes, earaches, croup and other common ailments
Behavior Problems:
-proven strategies for colic, sleep disturbances, toilet training problems, thumbsucking, and the video game craze
-no-nonsense discipline techniques for biting, temper tantrums, sibling fighting, and school refusal
Health Promotion: From Birth Through Adolescence:
-essential advice on newborn baby care, nutrition, cholesterol testing, immunizations, and sex education
-ways of preventing spoiled children, picky eaters, overeating, tooth decay, accidents, and homework problems

Library Journal

This is the third edition of a standard child care encyclopedia that debuted in 1987. Schmitt (medical director, After-Hours Call Ctr., Sleep Disorders Clinic, Enuresis-Encopresis Clinic) discusses everything from supplies required for a new baby to adolescent rebellion, but the book's greatest value is as a guide to coping with illness or injury. Schmitt succinctly describes symptoms and provides clear directions for first aid as well as advice on such topics as when to call 911, when to go to the Emergency Room, and when to call the doctor immediately. Though for some topics he recommends titles for further reading, one wishes he did so more often (particularly when opinions vary, as with toilet training and discipline), but this is a minor quibble. Bottom Line Every parent will want to own this book. But every public library will want a copy as well for prospective parents to browse, as there's a lot of information here-300 major topics covered-at a very reasonable cost. Highly recommended.-Susan B. Hagloch, Tuscarawas Cty. P.L., New Philadelphia, OH Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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Table of Contents:

	Epigraph	xi
	Acknowledgments	xiii
	Introduction	1
	A Delicious Placebo	8
	Toys in the Attic: An Ars Poetica Under the Influence	21
	Bodies in the Basement: An Ars Poetica with Attitude	29
	One Cheer for Melancholy	38
	Heaven and Nature	44
	Poodle Bed	60
	From Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen	67
	Noontime	75
	Fading to Gray	105
	from Darkness Visible	114
	Strands	126
	An Unwelcome Career	138
	Melancholy and the Muse	149
	Ghost in the House	162
	Writing the Wrongs of Identity	173
	On Living Behind Bars	181
	from The Savage God	214
	Planet No	229
	A Melancholy of Mine Own	242
	The Legacy	256
	Wish You Were Here	270
	A Better Place to Live	281
	Contributors	294