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

Healthy 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