J&D Ultracare has been providing professional nursing services to medically fragile children for 35 years. We understand the importance of good health, especially when many of us are staying home to social distance due to COVID-19. That’s why our nurses are ready to help those in need while following the safety guidelines set by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

For parents that are staying home with their kids, it’s important to keep everyone engaged and entertained with activities. That’s why we wrote a post in April called “Six Indoor Activities You Can Do With Your Kids.” However, if you’re a parent with young toddlers, it might be hard to do some of the activities from that post. On today’s J&D Ultracare blog, we want to show you five activities that toddlers will love.

These tips come from a great article on a website called Hands On As We Grow. If you like the tips below, you can find more in the full article by clicking here. Here are five of our favorites from the post:

1. Get out the cardboard boxes and create! Let the imaginations flow. A box can be anything: a train, ramps for cars, an airplane, a house.
2. Tape up the doorway and throw some newspapers (or cotton balls!) at it to see if you can stick them. A great indoor activity for gross motor practice!
3. Shaving cream is a wonderful indoor sensory activity that toddlers love. Squirt some on a pan and just let them have fun. Add food coloring if you like. You might want to put them in an old shirt and maybe put a towel down, too. It does get messy (You can keep messy play clean too, I’ve got 10 ways!)
4. Bowl indoors! Grab one of the kids’ balls. Set up a few items for pins. Lots of things will work for these, pop bottles, paper towel tube, or toilet paper works too!
5. Create a necklace, toddler style! Use a piece of string (a shoestring works well because of the hard end) and something to thread on it. Big beads would be great. But other items such as straws or large pasta noodles work too. This would be a great fine motor activity.

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During times like these, it’s easy to feel like there’s nothing to do when you’ve been staying at home every single day. Previously, we wrote a J&D Ultracare blog called “Six Indoor Activities You Can Do With Your Kids” in order to encourage families to try new things even if they are stuck at home. However, with the weather getting warmer, there are now plenty of outside activities that you can do with your family while staying safe.

A great website called Active For Life wrote an article about fun outdoor activities that you can do with kids on a picnic. Not only are these activities exciting, they also keep everyone active as well, making them a great way to get exercise. If you find this topic interesting, please check out their full article by clicking here.

We want to share four of our favorite Active For Life activities here on the J&D Ultracare blog. Check them out below:

1. Picnic parachute. First things first, pick a shady spot and mark your territory with the picnic blanket (classic checkered print, optional). Have everyone choose a corner or side(s) and lift and lower the blanket like a parachute. Add a beach ball to the middle of the blanket and keep it up! Skills: coordination of legs, arms and torso
2. Tree tag. A favourite childhood game of mine with super simple rules. As a family, define an area of trees and one by one, take off to tag them all! The route is up to the runner while the rest will wait and time. Skills: agility, dynamic balance, and speed
3. Balloon sports. A great way to introduce any sport that uses a ball is to substitute a balloon instead. Balloon batting, balloon tennis, and balloon volleyball are all family-friendly picnic possibilities. Skills: hand-eye coordination, striking, and volleying
4. Blanket run. If you have some spare blankets then this game is quite the “ride.” Partner up and start with one person sitting on the blanket and one person standing, blanket edge in hand. Race to the finish line by pulling your partner across the grass as quickly as possible. Extra challenge: go there and back by switching puller and rider halfway. Skills: pulling coordination of legs, arms and torso

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Welcome to this month’s testimonial post! Every month on the J&D Ultracare blog, we like to showcase some of our favorite reviews from the patient’s family and even our own nurses. We love reading them because they inspire us to continue to work very hard to help those in need. Plus, every single testimonial helps spread the word about J&D Ultracare, allowing us to get in touch with more people that need our help. Thank you so much to everyone that has written a review for us so far!

Before we begin, we want to provide a quick update about our office. Since May 15, we have re-opened J&D Ultracare after months of closure! We are following all the guidelines set forth by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and NY State Department of Health to make sure that everyone is safe and protected. Of course, please continue to check our website for updates as the situation may change as things develop. If you want to learn more about COVID-19, please visit the CDC’s website by clicking here.

This month, we wanted to look at a testimonial written by Bonny on Google. Bonny has used our professional nursing services for over 10 years in order to take care of her son. Stories like these warm the hearts of our nurses, so thank you so much Bonny for sharing this with us!

You can find Bonny’s review on Google below. If you would like to see more of our reviews on Google, you can find them by clicking here.

“I have trusted the nursing staff at J& D Ultracare for over 10 years. My son receives plasma infusions every other week. His nurse, Kerry Gough is as professional as they come. She arrives on time, does a complete health check on my son and stays by his side during the entire infusion. Each nurse there is highly qualified and the office staff is extremely efficient. I would, without a doubt, recommend J&D as Kerry truly kind, caring and very loving toward my son.” – Bonny

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J&D Ultracare has been providing professional nursing services to those in need since 1985. Not only do we value the health of our patients, we also value their happiness, especially in times like these. That’s why we want to encourage everyone to safely participate in a variety of activities each and every day.

With a lot of families staying at home, it can be hard to find things to do. That’s why we put together a list of activities you can do indoors with your kids last month on the J&D Ultracare blog. If you are interested, you can find the blog post by clicking here.

This week, we want to write about another type of activity you can do with your kids: cooking! While they won’t be doing the heavy lifting, they can help out with smaller tasks as an assistant. Not only does this help keep everyone busy, it also lets everyone feel accomplished when the food is ready to be eaten!

Below are three dinner ideas that we found from a great Kitchn article called “15 Easy Dinner Recipes You Can Cook with Your Kids“. If you want to get more dinner ideas, we highly recommend that you read the original article by clicking here.

1. Easiest Classic Turkey Chili

This crowd pleasing favorite is more mild than most chili recipes, with a spice blend that you add to your families liking. We almost always serve this with crunchy cheese crackers instead of cheese and chips.
How kids can help: Kids can help measure spices, open cans of tomatoes and beans, as well as grating cheese for topping as desired.

Recipe: How To Make the Easiest Classic Turkey Chili

2. Zucchini Pesto Pizza Rolls

Pizza rolls are brilliant way to put leftovers to good use or here as a vehicle for more vegetables. Use any vegetables or sauce you have on hand using this same basic frame work.
How kids can help: Put those kiddos to work rolling out the dough and rolling things up once they are filled.

Recipe: Zucchini Pesto Pizza Rolls

3. One-Pot Meatballs & Pasta Os

Why yes, this is a more modern take on Spaghetti O’s and it is delightful! No need to make mini meatballs from scratch either, you can roll up bulk sausage which flavors the sauce and works as meatballs instead.
How kids can help: Portion the sausage and let your kids do the meatball rolling. The can also fill pots for boiling pasta and open cans of tomato sauce.

Recipe: One-Pot Meatballs & Pasta Os

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