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Can You Help Your Kids Grow Taller? – 5-Step Action Plan

Kids are often passionate, and sensitive, about how “tall” they are.  I remember each of our kids getting excited with each incremental pencil mark up our kitchen wall.  While it is true that a person’s height is primarily determined by genetics (i.e., the height of their parents), the new sciences of nutrigenetics and epigenetics reveal […]

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December 27, 2022 September 28, 2023 Dr. Bill Sears

Parenting Children Who Push

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Parenting Strategies for Children Who Push Our five-year-old daughter is generally kind and considerate. However,  she tends to push other children around on the playground, sometimes causing them to fall.  How should I handle this? Reacting to the Push Remember our mantra: Parenting is equipping your children with the tools to succeed in life.  I […]

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October 13, 2020 October 13, 2020 Dr. Bill Sears

Breast lump in 8 Month Old

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Breast Lump in Baby: Cause for Worry? “Three weeks ago my daughter found a knot in the right breast, just behind the nipple, of my 8-month-old granddaughter, the knot feels moveable and does not seem to bother her. We are concerned about this, her pediatrician recommended to just watch it for a while, she did […]

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September 16, 2020 September 3, 2023 Dr. Bill Sears

COVID-19 Update: Lessons for Life

Dr. Bill’s COVID-19 Update March 24, 2020 The lessons I have learned from the COVID-19 pandemic have made me a healthier person, husband, father, and doctor. By following the preventive-medicine measures in my previous post, here are the lessons for life our family has learned: 8 Lessons for Life 1. Preload Payoff By keeping our […]

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March 23, 2020 March 23, 2020 Dr. Bill Sears

Keeping Children Healthy

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Five Tips to Keep Your Children Healthy During the School Year You might think that the school year brings sickness but there are ways to keep children healthy during the school year. Some children might be excited to get back to school but we all know that us parents dislike the germs, sickness and unhealthy […]

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February 9, 2020 March 9, 2020 Dr. Bill Sears

Nutrition Books

Help Heal Yourself from Cancer Partner Smarter with Your Doctor, Personalize Your Treatment Plan, and Take Charge of Your Recovery. In Help Heal Yourself from Cancer, cancer survivors and trusted medical professionals Bill and Martha Sears help you go from patient to partner in your cancer-healing journey. They outline the steps you can take, both […]

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April 8, 2019 January 28, 2025 Dr. Bill Sears

Baby Shower: A Gathering of Friends and Family

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A Special Note From Martha Sears on the Baby Shower Celebrating Daughter Erin Saturday, December 1st, was a special day for the Sears women to celebrate middle daughter, Erin Elizabeth. We celebrated her (and baby) with a baby shower with family and friends. Oldest and youngest daughters, Hayden and Lauren, are part of this group […]

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December 10, 2018 September 27, 2023 Dr. Bill Sears

Parenting Tips from Dr. Bill

Dr. Bill’s Top Ten Parenting Tips Parenting, in a nutshell, is giving your children the tools to succeed in life. Here are ten parenting tips that I have tried to teach our children and have used in my medical practice during the past 40 years. 1. Get behind the eyes of your child. Parenting is […]

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January 5, 2015 May 22, 2018 Dr. Bill Sears

ADHD and Nutrition

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The Link between ADHD and Nutrition Are too many school kids being drugged for their D’s? We pediatricians dub October “D-month” because the kids have been back to school just long enough to get labeled. Most parents don’t understand how ADHD and nutrition are related. For example, a mother and her six-year- old son recently […]

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September 25, 2014 October 20, 2017 Dr. Bill Sears

What’s New in Treating A.D.H.D.

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Treating A.D.H.D. Now In the past couple of years many pediatricians, especially those in Sears Family Pediatrics, have changed the way we diagnose and treat A.D.H.D. Once upon a time, it was primarily treated with the pills model: “Child diagnosed with A.D.H.D., take this drug…” The new and improved way of treating A.D.H.D., and the […]

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December 17, 2013 January 15, 2015 Dr. Bill Sears

Toddler Vaginal Hygiene

Toddler Vaginal Hygiene “I have a 3-year-old granddaughter whom I care for once a week. I have been noticing lately that she has had quite a bit of Desitin that had been placed inside her vagina. Is this safe? My granddaughter is in preschool now has been taught to use the bathroom by herself however, […]

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September 3, 2013 April 17, 2024 Dr. Bill Sears
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