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Growing independence for children with heart disease

Learn about encouraging self-care in children with congenital heart disease.

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.

Steps towards independence

Information to help your child or teen become more independent and take control of their own health care.

Phenylketonuria (PKU) transitions in the teenage years

Teenagers with phenylketonuria (PKU) face the unique challenge of balancing their health with their growing independence. Read about how you can support your teen with PKU.

The balancing act

This page describes how to balance helping your teenager while being respectful of their abilities and independence.

Steps towards independence

Discover strategies and tips to help your teen become more independent and take control of their own health care.

Teens Taking Charge: Letting go

This page gives an overview of how to help your teen with arthritis take control of their arthritis. It leads to pages on how to help your teen learn to manage own health care.

Acute pain: Effective parenting for teens

Find out how you can use effective parenting to support the 3Ps of pain management for your teen with acute pain.

Teens Taking Charge: Managing Cancer Online

Phenylketonuria (PKU) transitions in the early years

Children growing up with phenylketonuria (PKU) need to incorporate health care into their normal routines. Read about encouraging proper development.

Teens Taking Charge: Managing JIA Online

This page will tell you what to expect as you go through the parent pages of the Taking Charge: Managing JIA Online Program.

How hospitals support teen independence

Your child's paediatric hospital may have resources and processes to help your child prepare to enter the adult health-care system. Learn more about these.

Chronic pain: Effective parenting for teens

​​​Find out how you can support the 3Ps of pain management with effective parenting strategies for your teen with chronic pain.

Living with a chronic condition: Overview

​Find out how a chronic condition affects your child's mental health and how to help them adjust to a recent diagnosis.

Teenagers with diabetes

Discover how to help your teenager manage their diabetes and how it will affect their day-to-day lives.

Getting the most from your support system after a transplant

Setting the stage for a healthy future

Discover how to help keep your child healthy and keep their diabetes under control now and in the future.

Puberty in girls

Puberty is a stage of development where your child's body starts to take on adult form. Learn about puberty in girls and how to talk to your daughter about puberty.

Teenagers and chronic pain

Learn about chronic pain in teenagers and the effect that it may have. Pain management, responsibilities, drinking and drug use are discussed.

Hemophilia: Switching from paediatric care to adult care

Teens living with hemophilia can learn what to expect when making the inevitable transition from paediatric care to adult care.

Appetite slump in toddlers

An easy-to-understand overview of loss of appetite in toddlers, and tips on how to improve feeding at mealtimes.

Puberty in boys

Puberty is a stage of development where your child's body starts to take on adult form. Learn about puberty in boys and how to talk to your son about puberty.

Helping your child transition through health care: Children

Recommendations for helping your child navigate through the health-care system and gain independence in managing their own health care.

Helping your teen cope with scoliosis surgery

Having scoliosis surgery can be a very emotionally difficult experience for a teenager. Learn about common stressors as well as how to cope with them.

Chronic pain: Effective parenting for older children

​​Find out how you can use effective parenting strategies to support the 3Ps of pain management for your older child with chronic pain.