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Whether you follow sports regularly or not, the Summer Olympics is always captivating. During the London 2012 Olympics, it’s been hard to miss the story of Gabby Douglas, a 16-year-old who won the gold medal in the All Around Championships for Women’s gymnastics last week, the first African-American to do so. Gabby’s mom was watching […]

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During the summer months, doctors’ offices in Carmel Valley are full of kids, usually healthy and rambunctious.  They are either there for their check up or having to tag along as their sibling gets his or her check up.  For some kids it is fun.  For others it is agony. I remember a certain San […]

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Healthy body image and it’s best friend, high self esteem, are hardest to find in teenage girls, but let’s not forget that teenage boys and kids of all ages can potentially suffer from an unhealthy or distorted body image (not to mention adults).  Your child’s self-image isn’t plain to see, so monitoring it can be […]

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Maurice Sendak, the children’s book author most famous for authoring ‘Where the Wild Things Are,’ passed away recently at the age of 84. While my main roles in life are as wife and mother, pediatrician, and community health educator, I am also an author.  If you have ever been to my office you can see […]

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In the book, The Five Love Languages of Children, Dr. Gary Chapman, PhD and Dr. Ross Campbell, MD, outline five ways kids (and all people) ‘express and interpret’ love. They are: Words of affirmation Spending quality time Receiving gifts Acts of service Physical touch According to the book, every child has one dominant way of […]

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I love the Holiday Season.  Everyone is in a good mood, the kids are full of expectation and excitement, and families get together all over Carmel Valley to celebrate the essence of our society. Usually, during visits to my pediatric office, there is lots of chatter about Santa, Christmas trees and gifts.  I’ve taken to […]

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TEDMed.com 2011

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As a Carmel Valley San Diego community pediatrician, I found it important for me to attended the TEDMED conference. TED.com stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design. A given conference can then be narrowed down to Global, Medicine, Woman, Technology etc. TEDMED is in its third year being held at The Coronado Hotel right here in San […]

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