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Meal ideas for school-aged children, tweens and teens

Learn how to support your child's nutrition needs with nutritious snacks and meal ideas.

Involving kids in meal time tasks

Find out how engaging your child in meal time tasks can help them develop good eating habits.

Healthy food and drink choices outside the home

Find out how to encourage your tween or teen to make healthy food and drink choices when eating out.

Financial literacy: Teaching kids about money

Follow these money milestones to teach your preschooler, tween or teen about the basics of money.

Nutrition: How a balanced diet and healthy eating habits can help your child's mental health

Mark National Nutrition Month by learning about the nutrients and routines that can help with your child's mental wellbeing.

Developing positive eating habits

Developing positive eating habits can be difficult. Find out what your teen can do every day to develop a healthy attitude toward food.

Sports nutrition

Find out what athletes at all levels should eat and drink before, during and after sports and exercise.

Enteral nutrition in intestinal failure

Enteral nutrition is any method of feeding that uses the gastrointestinal (GI) tract to deliver nutrition to your child. It can include food given through their mouth or through a feeding tube.

Feeding your toddler or preschooler

Discover some easy, creative and nutritious meal and snack ideas for your toddler or preschooler.

ADHD: Signs and symptoms

Discover the main signs and symptoms of ADHD in school-aged children and teens.

Encouraging healthy lifestyle habits

Exercising regularly, eating well and sleeping well are all important parts of proper JIA management. Learn how to encourage your teen to be healthy.

Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID): How to help your child at home

Find out what you can do to help your child or teen recover from avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder.

Thrill-seeking and risky behaviour in teenagers

Find out how to help your teen to stay healthy and properly manage their diabetes as they learn to navigate adolescence.

Intestinal failure: Transitions during adolescence

Find information to help support your teen (12 to 18 years of age) with intestinal failure transition through developmental ages and stages.

School-aged children with diabetes

Learn about sharing responsibility for diabetes care with your school-aged child, and the impact diabetes management will have on them.

Nutrition: How a balanced diet can help you when a child is in hospital

Caring for an ill child is stressful. Learn some helpful tips about healthy eating on the go.

Sickle cell disease: Encouraging your teen's independence

Teens with sickle cell disease may need encouragement to become more independent with taking their medications as instructed, filling their prescriptions and making clinic appointments. Learn what you can do to encourage your teen to manage their condition independently.

Magnesium-rich foods for children and teens aged 4 to 18 years

Learn about the best foods to eat to maintain a high magnesium intake through diet.

Energy boosting for teens and kids over one year old

If your child does not gain weight at the rate they are supposed to, they may need to increase their caloric intake. Read how to increase calories in meals.

Encouraging healthy habits during and after cancer treatment

Encourage healthy habits in your teen during cancer treatment and after with these expert tips.

Setting up a meal plan when a child has diabetes

Learn how a registered dietitian will work with you to set up a meal plan to meet the needs of your child and family.

Depression and depressive disorders

Nutrition and feeding consultants for patients with congenital heart disease

Read about various nutrition and feeding consultants, such as dietitians and lactation consultants, who work to ensure that babies and children with heart conditions receive proper nutrition.

Anorexia nervosa: How to help your child at home

Learn how you can support your child or teen as they recover from anorexia nervosa.