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The following printable articles cover a range of health topics, with tips for parents, tips for kids and teens and recommended reading/viewing put together by the pediatric experts at CHOC. These articles are not meant to replace your child’s professional healthcare team, but rather, to supplement it by giving you helpful tips and tools all in one place.
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Navigating Peptides, Body Image, and Muscle Development with Dr. Kornswiet
From muscle-building promises to rapid weight-loss claims, peptides are increasingly being marketed to teens on social media. But what are they, and what should parents know? Dr. Kornswiet explores the risks behind the trend, the pressures young people face online, and the importance of fostering healthy body image and lifelong wellness habits.
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Why is mental health wellness essential for academic excellence?
Discover why mental health is essential to achieving academic excellence and how emotional well-being supports focus, resilience, and student success.
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What are the best ways to prevent window falls at home?
Window falls are a leading cause of childhood injury. Discover practical ways families can reduce risks and create safer homes.
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Stay cool this summer: Three kid-friendly hydration recipes to beat the heat
When temperatures rise, staying hydrated becomes even more important. Learn how smoothies, popsicles, and frozen fruit treats can help kids stay cool, hydrated, and nourished all summer long.
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When are youth sports injuries too serious for a child to keep playing?
Not sure if your child should keep playing? Learn how to recognize serious youth sports injuries.
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Stay Cool This Summer: Three Kid-Friendly Hydration Recipes to Beat the Heat
Hydrating foods can be especially helpful during hot weather, after physical activity, or when children are recovering from illnesses that make it harder to eat or drink normally.
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How do you do a bowel clean-out with MiraLAX?
A MiraLAX bowel clean-out can help relieve severe constipation in children. Learn instructions, diet tips and what parents should expect.
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How do you transition your child from pediatric to adult care?
Helping families navigate pediatric to adult care with confidence, independence, and support for a smooth healthcare transition.
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Why do children bite and how can parents stop it?
Why children bite and what it means. Learn the causes of toddler biting, when to worry, and how to stop biting behavior with calm, effective strategies.
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Does your child need their tonsils out?
Worried about your child’s snoring or sore throat? Learn when tonsils should be removed and how the procedure helps, expertly explained by Dr. Huoh.
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With their second child home in time for Mother’s Day, these parents couldn’t be more grateful
Born Jan. 7 with congenital heart disease, Baby Madeline spent two months in the neonatal intensive care unit and six weeks in the cardiovascular intensive care unit.
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Perinatal Mental Health 101: Spotting the warning signs
Support for your mental health matters. Learn common signs and when to get help during pregnancy and postpartum.
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How are nature and mental health linked?
Nature and mental health are deeply connected. Learn why getting outside reduces stress, eases anxiety, and boosts mood, focus, and emotional well-being.
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Cooking for a Healthy Gut: Spring Tacos with Strawberry Salsa
May is a meaningful time to highlight digestive health, bringing awareness to gut-related conditions and the role nutrition plays in overall wellness.
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How do trauma and adverse childhood experiences affect children?
Learn how adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and childhood trauma affect children, and how trauma-informed care matters.
Topics
- Allergies
- Anxiety
- Appendicitis
- Arthritis
- Artificial Intelligence
- Asthma
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Autism
- Balanced Carbs
- Balanced Macros
- Balanced Meal
- Balanced Protein
- Bedtime
- Bedwetting
- Bike and Helmet Safety
- Birth Defects
- Blood Donations
- Build Your Own
- Bullying
- Calm
- Calming
- Cancer / Oncology
- Car and Travel Safety
- Celiac
- Child Life
- Cleft Lip
- Cochlear implants
- Cold and Flu
- Colorectal & Urogenital
- Comfort Food
- Concussions
- Controlled Substances
- Cooling
- Coping with chronic illness
- COVID-19
- Critical Care
- Culinary Medicine
- Customizable
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Dentistry
- Depression
- Dermatology
- Diabetes
- Down Syndrome
- Driving
- Ear Infections
- Ears, Nose, Throat / Otolaryngology
- Easy Prep
- Eating Disorders
- Emergency
- Endocrinology
- Epilepsy / Seizures
- Fall Flavors
- Fermented
- First Aid
- Flourless
- Food Allergies
- Freezer-Friendly
- Fun
- Fun Activities
- Gastroenterology
- General Surgery
- Genetics
- Gentle
- Gentle Flavor
- Gentle Spices
- Halloween
- Handheld
- Headaches
- Health
- Heart / Cardiology
- Hematology
- Herby
- Hernia
- Holidays
- Home and Window Safety
- Hot Weather Safety
- Hydration
- Hygiene
- Immunizations / Vaccinations
- Immunology
- Infectious Disease
- Internet / Online Safety
- Kid-Friendly
- Lactation / Breastfeeding
- Leukemia
- Maternal-Fetal Care
- Meal Prep
- Medication
- Mental Health
- Metabolics
- Musculoskeletal Tumors
- Neonatology / NICU
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- New Year
- No Cooking
- No-Bake
- Nutrition
- Nutrition and Lactation
- Obesity
- Orthopedics
- Outdoor Safety
- Oven-Baked
- Palliative Care
- Parenting
- Pediatric Surgery
- Pharmacy
- PICU Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
- Plant Protein
- Plastic Surgery
- Portable
- Post-Illness
- Primary Care / Family Medicine
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
- Psychosis
- Pulmonology
- Radiology
- Rare Disease
- Recipes
- Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy
- Rheumatology
- Safety
- School
- School-Friendly
- Scoliosis
- Screen Time and Social Media
- Seasonal
- Sensory Engaging
- Serve Warm or Cold
- Sexual Health
- Sleep Safety
- Sleeping
- Soothing
- Speech therapy
- Sports and Fitness
- Sports Medicine
- Stir Fry
- Stroke
- Suicide Prevention
- Summer Safety
- Sun Safety and Skin Protection
- Thanksgiving
- Tiny Hand Friendly
- Toddler-Friendly
- Tonsils
- Transition to Adult Health Care
- Traumatic Events
- Urinary Tract Infections
- Urology
- Veggie Boost
- Versatile
- Vision / Ophthalmology
- Warm
- Warming Spices
- Water Safety and Drowning Prevention
