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  • When It’s Hot Outside, Protect Your Kids From Heat-Related Illness

    Now that summer break has arrived, families are starting to plan their outdoor activities and summer vacations. With warm weather ahead, it is a good idea to take note of the ways extreme heat can affect children and how to safely enjoy the outdoors.

  • How to Keep Your Kids Hydrated in the Summer Heat

  • New Opportunities for Teen Patients and Siblings - Come Check It Out!

    Calling all teens and young adult patients! The child life department has some exciting news to share.

  • How to Ensure Your Family Is Eating Well While You Travel

    Summer is here, and many of us will soon be off on a vacation of some kind. Whether you are traveling by train, plane or automobile, packing healthy travel snacks is a must for children and teens. The last thing a family wants to do is stop at a gas station or a local convenience store while rushing to get to their destination. Not only does it waste valuable travel time (and money), but it also makes it difficult to make healthy choices.

  • Could your child benefit from the use of a wheelchair?

    Will using a wheelchair discourage your child from walking? Find out what a pediatric occupational therapist has to say.

  • Healthy Snacks Can Help You Manage Your Family’s Hectic Lifestyle

    This blog was written in conjunction with pediatric medical resident, Sanila Sarkar, MD.

  • Why Well-Child Checkups Are so Important for Your Child

    This blog was written in conjunction with pediatric medical resident, Ashley Bedner, DO.

  • What Every Teenager Needs to Know About Suicide

    Talk of suicide seems to be everywhere lately. Whether it is news reports of celebrities whose lives have been tragically lost or popular television shows such as 13 Reasons Why, suicide is a topic that unfortunately infiltrates our everyday lives. And often, the public discourse and television representation of such topics are misleading and confusing for teenagers.

  • What is music therapy and how is it used in a hospital?

    I am a music therapist in a pediatric hospital and a hospital for women and babies. That is often what I say when I’m asked my occupation by friends and family. While most people generally understand what goes on in a hospital, it can be difficult to conceptualize what music therapy is and how it functions in the medical setting. Follow-up questions and comments from those unfamiliar with music therapy often include: “I didn’t know that was a thing” and “So you play music for patients in the hospital?” My answer is yes, it is a thing, but it is so much more than just playing music for hospitalized individuals.  

  • How and why to talk to your kids about their private parts

    Later that night as I thought back on the conversation, though, I realized I wasn’t quite sure what my daughter would call her private parts. For boys, it’s often a different story since the opportunity (or necessity, rather) to discuss boys’ private parts presents itself more readily. If you have boys, you know what I mean; if you don’t, enjoy your ignorance. For girls, though, it seems many of us avoid the conversation while they’re young due to fear of our kids embarrassing us in public with their newfound vocabulary or because we just don’t know what to say. Then, before we know it we look at them and realize they’ve grown up, and we should have had the conversation long ago.