OBJECTIVE Unintentional injuries are the number one cause of death for infants. Many of these injuries could be prevented if parents took additional safety precautions. In this study physicians' and parents' perspectives regarding the part that physicians play in educating first time parents about child safety issues were compared. METHODS All pediatricians and family physicians in London, On...

Feedback controls are usually designed to achieve multiple and often conflicting performance goals. These incommensurable objectives can be found in both time and frequency domains. For instance, one may want to design a control system such that the closed-loop system response to a step input has a minimum percentage overshoot (Mp), peak time (tp), rise time (tr), settling time (ts), tracking e...

Although dental caries appears to be almost universal disease, rampant caries in the infant and very young children is one of the most frustrating and difficult conditions to treat. It exacts an alarming toll in terms of the child’s comfort, health and development. Milk in particular is responsible for major account of the damage, although pacifiers and nipples dipped in sweetening agents will ...

In this article we discuss the results of a motor intervention study that we conducted with young children with Down syndrome and other disabilities (Mahoney, Robinson & Fewell, 2001). Results from this study indicated that neither of the two major treatment models that are commonly used with young children with motor impairments was effective at enhancing children's rate of motor development o...

This article reviews the three major ways parents influence children: direct interaction, identification, and transmission of family stories. This essay summarizes some of the relevant empiric data in support of this claim and describes the operation of other mechanisms that also contribute to the child’s development. Pediatrics 1999;104:164–167; parental influence, children. The profile of cog...