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Are Your Medications Up, Away and Out of Sight? Sponsored by Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare - All Saints 67,000 children are treated in emergency rooms each year for medicine poisoning. 5 00,000 times each year a child gets into medicine or gets the wrong dose.    Safe Kids Worldwide recently released a new research report that found kids are getting into medicine at an alarming rate. Over the past 10 years, this rate has increased by 30 percent. All Saints is the Lead Agency for Safe Kids Kenosha-Racine. Read more... In its report, An In-Depth Look at Keeping Young Children Safe Around Medicine , Safe Kids reviews the numbers and offers parents simple things they can do to protect their children. “Ask any parent, and they will tell you they store medicine where children can’t get them,” said Erin Donaldson, Safe Kids Kenosha-Racine coordinator. “But they might not be thinking of pills stored in purses, vitamins left on counter tops, or a diaper rash remedy near a changing table.”   T

Expecting?   Sponsored by Sozo Chiropractic Having been through several pregnancies myself, I can personally attest to the many benefits of chiropractic care during pregnancy.  I honestly don’t know how women go through pregnancy without chiropractic, and no women should have to. Let me explain how chiropractic helps women during pregnancy: In addition to the noticeable changes your pregnancy will cause your body, pregnancy can also cause subtle changes in the musculoskeletal system; changes a Chiropractor is able to detect and correct.  The position of your growing baby will cause your center of gravity to shift and your spine will naturally alter itself to accommodate this change. As a result, you may experience low back and pelvic pain. Read more... The increase in hormones during pregnancy can also cause muscles, ligaments, cartilage and even bones to “soften” and become more pliable. Pelvic bones may even become displaced or fixated. Since your hips will need to spread to accommo

  ...And Check It Twice! (updated 12/19/2014)   by Just Add Kids Founder, Paula Herrmann 'Tis the season! It's the battle of the "Breakfast with Santa" 's. Let the games begin! The jolly man in the big fuzzy red suit is coming town. We here at Just Add Kids are compiling an ongoing list of where you can find Santa Claus 'round our corner of southeastern Wisconsin.  Read more... So check this list, and do it twice, or more! We'll add Santa events here and on our website's calendar JAK Happenings , along with other kid-oriented, holiday happenings as we learn about them. Ho Ho Hope you have fun! **DENOTES**activities and events that are designed for and/or welcoming to families of children/dependent young adults with special needs. Make A Date With Santa Southridge Mall, 5300 S. 76 th Street, Greendale November 7 to December 24 Come take your photo with Santa and create special memories that last a lifetime!  Santa is at the mall daily starting November

"Keeping Kids Safe In A World Of Rapidly Changing Technology" by JAK's guest mom blogger from Racine, Karri Hemmig Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, online gaming, texting, sexting, emailing and by the time you finished reading this list a new social platform is being developed.   As a mother of three children ages 12 and under, I struggle to keep up with the rapidly evolving technology and social media forums. It feels like chasing a kid through a maze that is constantly changing and it’s overwhelming! Where do we begin? Read more...   For example, The Journal of Adolescent Health reports that while only 18% of youth use chat rooms, however, the majority of Internet-initiated sex crimes against children are initiated in chat rooms. What? Chat Rooms still exist? Suddenly I am feeling my middle age.   Human Trafficking. It’s a term that invokes images of exotic women being kidnapped and kept in brothel-like prisons half way around the world. While this is a true rea