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BR Parents: March 2019

As Education editor, I wrote pages 22-25 of the March 2019 issue of Baton Rouge Parents Magazine. See the layout on the magazine's website . I also wrote Exceptional Lives: A Smile Sweeter Than Any Cupcake .

BR Parents One Amazing Kid: Joshua Green

What started as a way to fill summer days as a kid became a passion for 16-year-old Joshua Green . When Joshua was five, his mom, Brenda, began taking him to the Kids Bowl Free summer program. Joshua quickly discovered that he was a good bowler, and he has worked hard to become competitive at the high school level and be part of the Southern Scratch Junior Bowling Association League. Read the rest on the Baton Rouge Parents Magazine website .

BR Parents Exceptional Lives: A Smile Sweeter Than Any Cupcake

Like most babies, when Jack Beach turned one, his parents, Emily and David, switched him to whole milk and started adding fruits and veggies to his diet. Unlike most babies, however, Jack reacted badly and began having 7-10 icky diapers per day. With Jack being the couple’s fourth child, Emily knew right away that something wasn’t right. At first, Jack’s pediatrician suspected that he had a milk allergy, but those tests came back negative. Then, the family took Jack to see a pediatric gastroenterologist. Since Jack’s nine-year-old brother, Howard, had salmonella as a baby, the Beach family returned to Dr. J. Brannon Alberty for Jack’s care. Dr. Alberty suspected that Jack had fructose malabsorption or sucrose deficiency. The easiest way to test this was to give Jack straight fructose and observe him. “Fructose wasn’t easy to find, but I got it and put it in his bottles,” Emily says. “Almost immediately, after two or three bottles, he began having diarrhea.” At only