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Ruby Makes a Difference with the Teen Leadership Council

Having a chronic disease, with frequent hospital visits, is always challenging. Particularly for teenagers who can feel isolated from their peers during their illness. For Ruby, it was no different. At the age of 16, she came to Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children with a diagnosis of gastroparesis and severe dysmotility of the GI tract. In other words, her digestive system didn’t properly move food from the stomach to the small intestine.

How to get kids active and without breaking the bank!

I grew up in a neighborhood full of children around my age. All summer long we would ride our bikes around the neighborhood or to the neighborhood community pool. Pretty much everyone I knew was on a park district swim team. Exercise was a way of life, whether we realized it or not.

Summertime Often Leads To Excess Screen Time For Children

Tips to help find balance between the time kids spend online and outside

Sending a child with epilepsy to school: what every parent should know

Pediatric Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging

Our radiology department uses the most advanced technologies to capture digital images to help diagnose and treat your child.

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.

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.