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Monthly Archives: January 2010

Just launched: WYSIWYG editor for everything.

Hi faithful Parents Guild Blog readers! Just a quick note to let you know that we’ve just launched WYSIWYG editing for all questions, answers and comments.  This means you’ll be able to easily put links, formatting, and images into your posts! This is one of the most requested features on UserVoice, so we’ve just gone [...]

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Question of the Day: How to get child to try new foods?

My 3.5 yo’s food preference is for anything breakfast (eggs, cereal, waffles, pancakes), fish sticks, chicken nuggets, hotdogs, bread or white rice. He will not eat anything else. He refuses to even taste anything.Whatever we serve which is outside the Zachary Menu, he immediately says, “I don’t like it”. And our response is, “You haven’t [...]

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Question of the Day: How do I ween my baby from the bottle?

My 9 1/2 month old girl used to hate the bottle–until I started heating her mother’s milk up to near scalding temperatures. She loves it now, and I hate it…. Click through to read more and answer!

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Question of the Day: How to detect a urinary tract infection?

Our 5 year old recently just had an extremely high fever spike with no symptoms. After a trip to the ER, they determined she had a urinary tract infection, but she had no burning, stomach pain, kidney pain, etc… (Click through to read more and answer!)

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Question of the Day: When is the best time to move?

We’re planning on moving. Originally we were going to move before the oldest started kindergarten, but we didn’t find a suitable place. So now he is in kindergarten. Do we move at the end of this school year?… Click through to read more and answer!

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In the News: Outdoor time in childhood may curb myopia

NPR ran a story yesterday about rates of myopia (nearsightedness) in the general population increasing dramatically in the last 30 years. “The prevalence of myopia, or nearsightedness, in people age 12 to 54 went from 25 percent to 41.6 percent,” explains [Susan] Vitale, [an epidemiologist at the National Eye Institute]. “So that’s about a 66 [...]

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Searching for “Parents Guild” on Bing

About 2 months ago, we noticed we had made it to the #1 position on Google and Yahoo with the term “Parents Guild”, but had yet to appear anywhere on Bing. Update: Just today I noticed that Parents Guild is actually appearing on Bing. Almost. To be more precise, the Twitter page for Parents Guild is now ranking [...]

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Happy New Year!

It’s 2010, yay!, and Parents Guild has now been live through its first holiday season – from Thanksgiving, to Hanukkah and Christmas, and now New Years too.  In fact, “holidays” has made it on to the list of Top 5 topics, right after sleep, kids, travel, and toys. As for stats, we now have 71 [...]

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