How to Take Care of Children’s Skin in the Winter Months

This is a guest post by Michael West.

Skin care is just as important during the harsh winter months as it is during the summer season. Parents sometimes see the cloudy skies, overcast days, and snow filled streets and develop a false sense of security, but the truth is children suffer from extremely painful, annoying skin conditions that require treatment.

The following are some skin care tips parents can use to treat and prevent many of the most common skin conditions children suffer from during the winter months. 

Bracing for Mother Nature's Strange Behavior

The end of October this year was weather-strange.

On the 29th I embraced the warm weather, enjoying my garden. Marigolds were raging with color and the Morning Glory was blooming in abundance. Purples and blues traveled among heart-shaped leaves up my front railing. October had been so nice even our rosebush decided to bloom a third round of lovely pink blossoms.

On this morning I picked a whole bowl of tomatoes - some red, most were green. The shiny, round green ones would ripen in a paper bag. They found a perfect place to sprout – the corner of the compost. Tomatoes didn’t do well in the garden this year, but one tomato plant found a place to thrive late in the season and we had more tomatoes in three weeks than we did all summer.


On this day, I had a different reason for bringing in so many tomatoes. The weather was about to turn with reportedly an inch of snow later that day.