Parenting Resources
The following guides and articles cover a range of health topics, with tips for parents, tips for kids and teens, recommended reading/viewing, and crisis resources put together by the pediatric experts at CHOC and Premier Pediatrics. These guides are not meant to replace your child’s professional healthcare team, but rather, to supplement it by giving you helpful tips and tools all in one place.
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How to have hard conversations with your children
A CHOC expert gives advice for having difficult conversations with kids, whether about current events, divorce, death and more.
The benefits of incorporating seafood into your family’s diet
CHOC nutrition experts explain the benefits of seafood for kids, and addresses concerns about methylmercury, a poisonous form of mercury.
Tics and tic disorders: What parents should know
A CHOC expert treatment strategies and management for tics and tic disorders that most commonly affect kids ages 5 to 12 years old.
Teens and vaping: What parents should know
A CHOC expert advises parents on the risks of vaping for teens, answers questions and offers tips for helping teens quit vaping.
Is it OK to skip your child’s checkup if they’re healthy?
A CHOC pediatrician explains six reasons why you shouldn’t skip your child’s checkup like getting parent support and questions answered.
A family and care team that never gave up: Kaslyn’s story
After a rare heart condition and strokes almost took her life, Kaslyn is miraculously walking and talking thanks to expert care from CHOC.
