If anyone has a child who suffers from febrile seizures, take heart ... 99 percent of children outgrow them by time they are six years old and there are generally no ill after effects.

Febrile seizures can occur in babies as young as three months old. When child is running a fever, a seizure brought on by sudden rise of their body temperature can overtake them.

Febrile seizures look like epileptic attacks and they are one of most frightening events a parent can live through. These seizures happen only when a child has a fever and are not a precursor to epilepsy, although in about 1 percent of cases, febrile seizures are an indication of more complicated neurological problems.

When my older daughter was 18 months old, she had her first febrile seizure. Thankfully, I had read about them and knew what was happening. The first episode lasted less than two minutes and by time paramedics arrived, she was sleeping peacefully. I wish I could say that was her last febrile seizure. She had at least ten more in following four years, with last episode occurring when she was five-and-a-half-years-old.

Dads are solid foundation of our lives. They are shore we swim to when our arms and legs feel increasingly tired. They are strength we rely on as we take our first tentative steps into world. Dads can be tender, tough, fragile or powerful but they are probably most uncomplicated love we will ever know. For daughters, Daddy is first man they adore ... first man whose eyes shine with overwhelming amazement when they look at us. He is first man to fall in love with us.

For sons, Daddy is idol they first aspire to emulate ... their mirror image of what will be and possibly only man they will ever feel comfortable loving.