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While you would prefer it if your children behaved perfectly all the time, bad behavior as a child grows should be expected from time to time. Some behavioral problems, such as biting or temper tantrums, are usually simply a part of childhood, while other behavioral problems, such as excessive anger or hyperactivity may need special treatment.

Eating for two can be difficult. Eating for three can seem almost impossible if you don’t know how to do it effectively. Expecting twins puts an additional strain on your body and requires not only an increased calorie intake but also an increase in specific nutrients and vitamins. Knowing some of the tricks to adding healthy calories to your pregnancy diet will help you keep those babies growing according to schedule.

Whether you learn that your teen is experimenting with drugs or that he is already addicted to them, it is never a happy discovery. Your reaction could play an important part in determining how effective your efforts are to get your teen off drugs. Ensure that you don’t do more harm than good when you approach your child about his drug use.

If your teenager has anorexia, her treatment is likely to be challenging. Any sort of disorder that starts when a person is young is going to be difficult to treat and recover from, says Dr. David Schlager, psychiatry professor at Texas A & M University. Anorexia is particularly tough to treat. When a teen is severely underweight, she tends to have trouble concentrating and reasoning. With anorexics, typical 12-step programs probably won’t work because they require a person to acknowledge her illness, which many anorexic teens do not do. It is possible, even critical, to treat anorexia; a person can’t get over it on her own.