Learn what creativity is, why it is important, and how you can help nurture creativity in your child at home.
Learn about how to help children and teens with chronic pain cope during the COVID-19 pandemic, and which medications are used to treat chronic pain.
Learn about the other members of your child’s blood and marrow transplant/cellular therapy health-care team.
Learn how sleep improves brain function and mental health and how much sleep your child needs each night.
Find out how to encourage your tween or teen to make healthy food and drink choices when eating out.
Learn about what you should do after your child has been tested for COVID-19 and what to do if they test positive or negative.
The mind-body, or brain-body, connection is the link between a person’s thoughts, feelings and behaviour and their physical symptoms. Learn about the role that this connection plays in your child's health.
Meditation is a technique you can use to handle stress, pain or other strong emotions. Learn how you can practice meditation to help calm your mind.
Your body can give you clues that you are feeling stressed. Learn about the physical and mental signs of stress to help you pay attention to your stress levels.
Discover some easy, creative and nutritious meal and snack ideas for your toddler or preschooler.
There are many resources available to help your child learn to read, including books, workbooks, games and computer programs.
Learn about how stress works, how you can recognize when you are feeling stress, and the signs of body and mind stress.
Learn how to create a wind-down routine that you can do in the 30 minutes before bedtime to help your body and mind get ready for sleep.
Learn strategies to help your child relax in the days before and on the day of surgery. Strategy categories include mind-body, movement and medication.
A dietitian can help you with special food requirements during cancer treatment. Find out what else a dietitian does and why you will have one as part of your health-care team.
Learn about somatization, the connection between the mind and body and how to get help if somatization becomes a problem.
Depending on your treatment for cancer, you may experience hair loss. Learn about ways to deal with hair loss.
There are books, games and computer programs available to parents to help their child with phonological awareness.
Helpful tips on sharing responsibility when caring for a sick child.
Learn about some ways you can help your child or adolescent to cope and stay connected with family and friends while they are separated from them.
Learn about the nutritional benefits of whole grains and how to include them in your daily meals and snacks.
Learn about child-friendly activities in the hospital, after a blood and marrow transplant.
