Information to help you manage children's health, understand child development and explore parenting concerns.
Articles
- Acetaminophen and children: Why dose matters
- Asthma in children: Creating an asthma action plan
- Bruise: First aid
- Burn safety: Protect your child from burns
- Car seat safety: Avoid 9 common mistakes
- Cast care: Do's and don'ts
- Child sleep: Put preschool bedtime problems to rest
- Childhood vaccines: Tough questions, straight answers
- Children and divorce: Helping kids after a breakup
- Children and gender identity: Supporting your child
- Children's nutrition: 10 tips for picky eaters
- Children, sports and exercise: Choices for all ages
- Cold medicines for kids: What's the risk?
- Dehydration and youth sports: Curb the risk
- Don't let your tots burn
- Ear infection treatment: Do alternative therapies work?
- Fitness ideas for the entire family
- Halloween safety: Tips for trick-or-treaters
- Healthy body image: Tips for guiding girls
- Healthy snacks for kids: 10 child-friendly tips
- Helping children cope: Tips for talking about tragedy
- Iron deficiency in children: Prevention tips for parents
- Kids' swimming: Keep health risks at bay
- Kindergarten readiness: Help your child prepare
- Lead exposure: Tips to protect your child
- Learning disorders: Know the signs, how to help
- Mental illness in children: Know the signs
- New sibling: Preparing your older child
- Nutrition for kids: Guidelines for a healthy diet
- Potty training: How to get the job done
- Preparing your child for menstruation
- Pubertal blockers for transgender and gender diverse youth
- Screen time and children: How to guide your child
- Sex education: Talking to toddlers and preschoolers about sex
- Sex education: Talking to your school-age child about sex
- Sibling rivalry: Helping your children get along
- Single parent? Tips for raising a child alone
- Staying healthy in school: Kid-friendly tips
- Stepfamilies: How to help your child adjust
- Stroller safety: Tips for parents
- Temper tantrums in toddlers: How to keep the peace
- Thermometer basics: Taking your child's temperature
- Thumb sucking: Help your child break the habit
- Treating asthma in children ages 12 and older
- Treating asthma in children ages 5 to 11
- Treating asthma in children under 5
- Vaccines: Keep your child's shots on track
- Water safety: Protect your child from drowning
Conditions
- Adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Atrial septal defect (ASD)
- Atrioventricular canal defect
- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Bed-wetting
- Child abuse
- Childhood apraxia of speech
- Childhood asthma
- Childhood schizophrenia
- Constipation in children
- Ebstein anomaly
- Eisenmenger syndrome
- Ependymoma
- Greenstick fractures
- Headaches in children
- Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS)
- High blood pressure in children
- Legg-Calve-Perthes disease
- Microcephaly
- Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD)
- Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA)
- Patent foramen ovale
- Pulmonary atresia
- Pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum
- Pulmonary atresia with ventricular septum defect
- Pulmonary valve stenosis
- Reactive attachment disorder
- Transposition of the great arteries
- Tricuspid atresia
- Truncus arteriosus
- Type 1 diabetes in children
- Type 2 diabetes in children
- Vascular rings
- Ventricular septal defect (VSD)
- Vesicoureteral reflux
- Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome
FAQs
- ADHD diet: Do food additives cause hyperactivity?
- Acute flaccid myelitis: What is it and can it be prevented?
- Asthma triggers: Are hard flooring surfaces better than carpet?
- Autism spectrum disorder and digestive symptoms
- Autism spectrum disorder treatment: Can special diets help?
- Autism treatment: Can chelation therapy help?
- Baby teeth: When do children start losing them?
- Can you use honey for allergies?
- Car sickness in children: Can I prevent it?
- Child growth: Can you predict adult height?
- Coxsackievirus in children: How serious is it?
- Fruit juice: Good or bad for kids?
- Head lice prevention: What works, what doesn't?
- How to treat baby eczema
- Hygiene hypothesis: Early germ exposure prevents asthma?
- Multivitamins: Do young children need them?
- Super lice: Should I be worried about these treatment-resistant pests?
- Test anxiety: Can it be treated?
- Uncircumcised penis: Is special care needed?
- Use these tips to help children prevent diabetes
- Warm-mist versus cool-mist humidifier: Which is better for a cold?
- Will my child outgrow asthma?