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Healthy food and drink choices outside the home

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

Involving kids in meal time tasks

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

Meal ideas for school-aged children, tweens and teens

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

Nutrition

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Learn what nutrition is optimal for your child from the time they are born to the time they are a teen. Learn about the different food groups and find information about the different nutrients that food contains.

Financial literacy: Teaching kids about money

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

School-aged children with diabetes

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

ADHD: Signs and symptoms

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

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

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

Enteral nutrition in intestinal failure

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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.

Developing positive eating habits

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

Mathematics: How to help your pre-school and school-aged child

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Learn about the everyday activities, like playing games, you can do with your young child to help develop their math skills.

Physical activity and sport post heart transplant

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Find out why physical activity plays an important role in improving the social, emotional and physical health of children who have had a heart transplant.

Assessing younger school-aged children (age five to eight)

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Learn about pain assessment of younger school-age children. By this age, children begin to develop a sense of cause and effect concerning their pain.

Balancing blood sugar levels for a child with type 1 diabetes

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Although there is no cure for diabetes, the condition can be effectively managed. Learn how to properly test and manage blood sugar levels.

Needle pokes: Reducing pain with comfort positions and distraction

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Find out how you can use comfortable positions and distractions with your child to ease pain from needle pokes.

Physical activity and sport post lung transplant

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Learn about the important role physical activity plays in improving the social, emotional and physical health of children who have had a lung transplant.

Needle pokes: Reducing pain in children aged 18 months or over

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Discover the CARD system, which offers strategies your child or teen can use to cope with the pain and fear associated with vaccination.

Sleep tips: How to help your teen get a good night's sleep

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Use this video to help your child or teen learn about and develop a bedtime ritual so they can fall asleep more easily.

Brain disorders and mental health: How to help your child cope

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Find out how you can help your child cope with the challenges of a neurological condition and any related mental health issues.

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

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

Nutrition and feeding consultants for patients with congenital heart disease

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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.

Learning & education: Before your child goes back to school

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Essential information regarding issues that one should consider and take into account before sending a child with a heart condition back to school.

Navigating the school environment with celiac disease

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February 9 is National Pizza Day. Learn how to prepare for school events such as pizza day when your child has celiac disease.

Sports nutrition

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

Sickle cell disease: Making a plan for school

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Learn about some of the accommodations that may be available to make school more comfortable for your teen with sickle cell disease. Also find tips for communicating your teen's needs to their teachers.