Read about the Apgar score, which is used to assess a newborn baby's well-being using five categories: heart rate, breathing, muscle tone, reflexes and skin colour.
Learn about newborn nutrition, routine care and everyday health issues as well as some common physical and emotional adjustments to life after pregnancy.
Dehydration occurs when the body does not have enough water to function properly. Learn how illness can cause dehydration and how it is treated.
Learn about the different sections and topics in the Sickle Cell Disease Learning Hub and what to expect from each one.
Learn how a neuropsychological assessment is done and how it helps your child's epilepsy team plan your child's treatment.
Read about various behavioral problems that premature babies may develop as they grow. In general, the most premature babies are more at risk.
Find strategies to help children manage their cancer related symptoms.
A guide on cutting and giving hazardous medicine tablets safely.
Pain can be caused by cancer, procedures, treatments or symptoms of cancer and treatments. Find out how you can manage and how your health-care team can help you.
Learn how to responsibly manage your money and save for the future.
Find out how you can use effective parenting strategies to support the 3Ps of pain management for your child with cancer-related pain.
Find out how sport-related concussions can occur and how best to respond to them.
A guide on cutting, dissolving and giving hazardous medicine tablets safely.
Learn about the benefits of taking part in organized sports for your child.
Here is an introduction to scoliosis surgery. Links are provided to pages that give information about what will happen before, during, and after surgery.
Health games and videos for kids.
Legal information for AboutKidsHealth.ca
A list of helpful glossary terms for Teens Taking Charge Managing Your Hemophilia program.
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.
2:19; Ages 4–8
Hear from other kids about what bullying is, the different types of bullying, and why someone might bully.
30 minutes; Ages 8–13
Click through conversations to learn about building relationships on common interests, traits and experiences.
25 minutes; Ages 11 and under
Choose your captain and complete missions in space by learning to recognize emotions and respond to them appropriately.
