Find information to help promote independence in your teenager while continuing to help them manage their cancer treatment.
Discover some easy, creative and nutritious meal and snack ideas for your toddler or preschooler.
Find out how you can help your child cope with difficult emotions by learning and talking about them.
Learn how anorexia nervosa causes malnutrition and disrupts the body's usual functions.
Learn about the development of a baby's vision in the first year of life, including the development of spatial perception and depth perception.
Read about social and emotional development in a baby’s first year of life.
When you tell your child about the operation depends on your child's age and how anxious you think your child will be. Use the ages on this page as a guideline.
Find out about the range of in-hospital and outpatient treatments that can help a child recover from anorexia nervosa.
Find out how to tell if your child might have bulimia nervosa.
Learn about the factors that affect pain assessment such as our emotions, behaviour and cultural attitudes to pain.
Children growing up with phenylketonuria (PKU) need to incorporate health care into their normal routines. Read about encouraging proper development.
Find out what it's like for a child with diabetes to adjust to different challenges of managing the condition at different ages and stages.
In this section of the site, you will learn about the issues children born with congenital heart condition may face at different ages.
Find out how a child’s speech and language skills usually develop between the ages of 3 and 5 years, when to be concerned and what you can do to support communication development.
Learn how avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder can cause long-term health problems.
A heart transplant operation takes four to 10 hours. Learn what happens during the transplant and the major problems that may occur.
An echocardiogram (or ‘echo’) is a special test that uses ultrasound (sound waves) to take pictures of the heart. Learn about how they are done, and how to help your child prepare for one.
Find out how you can help your child or teen recover from bulimia nervosa.
Find out how an organ transplant can affect your child's development, school performance and self-esteem.
Sexuality is a healthy and normal part of life. Find out what sexuality is, how it is impacted by cancer and what you need to know to make safer choices about sex.
Information on the extremely difficult task of helping siblings adjust to their sibling suffering from a brain tumour.
Learn about the everyday activities, like playing games, you can do with your young child to help develop their math skills.
Learn tips to help navigate the transitions you and your child will experience during their hospital stay for intestinal failure and when planning to return home from the hospital.
Read about how the development of a child's intellect may be affected by a congenital heart condition.
Learn about articulation milestones in children and when to consider a speech assessment with a speech-language pathologist for articulation difficulties.
