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• Is Your Child Ready To Walk to School?

  Is your child ready to walk to school? It can be scary for parents to make that decision, but teaching your child some basic rules and safety tips can help ease your concerns. 

• Choose the Right Summer Camp for Your Kids

  Finding a healthy, safe and memorable summer camp can be stressful for parents and their kids.

• Responding to the Sandy Hook shooting: How to cope with tragedy

  In some ways, it seems impossible to write anything about the tragic shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School and yet I want to reach out.  What can anyone say about such a loss?  I cannot imagine the feelings of the families whose children and loved ones have died.  Or the feelings of the children, teachers and families who were traumatized even though they escaped physical harm.

• A little bit of fabric equals a lot of love: a pillowcase makes the hospital feel like home

  Written by Nora Elkins, customer service specialist.

• Feeling the warmth of a furry friend

   A few times a week, a special (furry) friend visits Arnold Palmer Hospital to brighten the day of our children who are receiving care. Pets have been a healing part of our hospital for over 20 years, bringing hope, joy, and comfort to our patients. Thought of as the “softer” side of treatment, man’s (and kids’) best friend provides physical and emotional healing to sick children who are fighting to get better everyday.

• Helping your teen learn to make good decisions

   I remember the day I graduated from high school: caps, gowns, diplomas, the whole deal.  Questions that I heard over and over were, “So…what are you going to do now?”  “Are you going to college?”  “Where?”  “What are you going to major in?”  “What are you going to do with a degree in THAT?!”

• Putting the "thanks" into Thanksgiving

  What are you thankful for this holiday season? This should be a question that all parents ask their kids, not only around the holidays, but year-round too. Studies show that adults who have an attitude of gratitude have more energy, more optimism, more social connections, and are all-around happier than those who do not. And researchers are finding that this same theory holds true for children and adolescents too. Kids who show signs of gratefulness typically have higher GPAs and are less materialistic.

• Winning the kid lottery: how adoption changed my life... continued

  Our family continued to adjust and grow together. Brandon sometimes recognized gaps in his early years and we did our best to fill those in. One time when he was seven or eight, he asked me if we could read some fairy tales and said, “I never go to hear those when I was little.” So we read fairy tales.

• Decoding the FDA’s new gluten-free labeling law

  This blog post was written by Dr. Karoly Horvath, pediatric gastroenterologist at the Center for Digestive Health & Nutrition at Arnold Palmer Hospital.

• Living through the uncertainties of spina bifida

  Written by Amanda Kern