If you’ve followed the news over the past few months, like me, you’ve seen cases of child sexual abuse being reported at an alarming rate. Studies have shown that approximately 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys are sexually abused by the time they are eighteen. And sadly, the abuser is known and trusted by the child and their family in 90% of the cases. While these statistics are sobering, as a parent you can use these facts to help protect your child from being a victim of sexual abuse.

Question: My wife and I have gone from having almost nothing to making about $90,000 in the last few years. The problem is that I can’t get her interested in saving money. What’s worse, her father is the preacher at our church and he has convinced her that he knows the Lord is coming back in our lifetime. Thinking this, she says there’s no reason to save because it will all be gone anyway. What can I do?

RSV stands for respiratory syncytial virus. This virus causes acute respiratory tract, (upper and lower), infections in all age groups and is seasonal here from November to April. RSV usually peaks in January and February. In fact, it is the most common cause of lower respiratory (lung) infection in infants - those less than one year of age. Almost all children have been infected by age two.

Question: Our 4-year-old daughter’s weight (25 pounds) is at the first percentile for her age, but she is otherwise healthy, energetic, creative, polite, and well-behaved. Our only real problem occurs at meals during which she picks at and dawdles over her food. We end up coaxing her to finish, telling her how important it is for her to eat so she’ll grow, and so on. Sometimes, she has been there so long we’ve taken her plate away, but we are reluctant to do that because we don’t want her losing any weight. Are we worrying for nothing?