So many of you have written asking questions about vaccinations- particularly Varicella (chickenpox) and the MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) vaccines.

There has been concern in the Catholic community about these vaccines containing aborted fetal tissue. Let me clarify this…

At age fifty-two, I often feel hopeless about being able to get back into shape. I used to love to run. For thirty years, I ran because it altered my mood and lightened the dysthmia that snaked its way into…

A reader recently wrote to ask my help with her 3rd grader’s newly developed sleep problem.  I think it’s particularly timely since it had a bit to do with transitioning back to school.

Dear Dr. Meg,

My daughter Susie…

I thought I’d share a video to round out my blog series on The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers. Here is a very brief segment about HOPE and why I feel that it’s so very, very important.

Excerpt:

Many…

Marie brought 8 year old Sidney in stating that she had been having a cough for 6 months. Marie brought her to an Urgent Care one month earlier and the doctor gave her antibiotics. The antibiotics helped a little, Marie…

We introduce Habit #10 in The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers on the blog today. I’ve been briefly touching on each habit, chapter by chapter here on my blog over the last few months. I hope you’ve been following…

It’s school time again and if you are a parent of a teen or even a pre-teen, your child may attend a sex-ed class this year.  But something going on in the news lately has really got me seeing red.…

Julie has 14 kids. No, she isn’t crazy.  Only 9 live in her house now. She and her husband John had four of their own and then began taking in foster children. The kind who have been abused, troubled and…

A special shout-out to my readers that commented that they suspected bullying as the root of Maddy’s mystery.

Here is what happened:

Maddy’s mother brought her to the doctor, who also confirmed that he didn’t find anything physically wrong…

Maddy is in the sixth grade. Halfway through the school year, her mother noticed that he grades were slipping. She was having stomach aches and asking her mother if she could stay home from school. When her mother made her…