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8 Tips To Keep Your Child Safe During the Holidays
The holiday season is full of joy and excitement, but it also can bring risks for your child. Here are eight essential safety tips to help you keep your little one safe during the festivities.
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Should I worry about mold on my kid’s toys?
It is a troubling moment when you look at a toy that your child has been playing with nonstop over the past several weeks and discover a disgusting-looking black film on or inside of it. If you’re like me there are two thoughts running through your mind when that happens. First, is this going to make my child sick? And second, how could I be so irresponsible to let this happen? I should have paid closer attention or cleaned up better for my kids.
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Child Life Offers Play, Preparation and Education
Child life at Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies is made up of a team of professionally Certified Child Life Specialists and child life assistants who strive to mitigate the fear and mystery of a healthcare experience for children, teens, and families. They focus on building therapeutic relationships and providing supportive interactions for the purpose of helping these young patients and their siblings understand and cope with hospitalization and medical treatment.
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Living with Illness, Giving Back to Others
Walking the halls of Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, it’s not uncommon to come across the familiar faces of patients who are routinely admitted. Dayna Chavarria is one of those patients.
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The most important thing you probably aren't teaching your child
One of the many hats that parents, caregivers, coaches, teachers, and child life specialists (like myself) wear is that of a cheerleader. We encourage kids to feel smart, capable, strong, creative, and to be kind to others. But what do we do to teach kids about being kind to themselves?
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Get to know Dr. Patricia Wheeler, pediatric geneticist at Arnold Palmer Hospital
You could say that a pediatric geneticist is a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, working to solve the mystery of a child’s medical condition. Geneticists work with families to help determine whether a child’s illness could be caused by a change in a child’s DNA, the hereditary material that carries a person’s genetic information. Accompanied by a team of professionals, a geneticist also helps figure out whether this disorder is likely to be passed on to future generations and helps patients and families seek the best care for their condition. Some common inherited disorders that geneticists diagnose include autism, neurofibromatosis, Down syndrome, sickle cell disease and many more.
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What to tell your kids about vaping
One of the most challenging aspects of raising a teen or pre-teen is this: the environment in which they are growing up looks dramatically different than it did when we, their parents, were young.
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Keeping Kids Safe During Halloween
The American Academy of Pediatrics wants to help you keep your kids safe, healthy and happy this Halloween with some easy-to-follow helpful tips.
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The real problem with hunger all around us
When we think of the word hunger, we imagine children who are thin and starving or of the feeling in our stomachs right before we have a meal. You might be shocked to learn, however, that one out of every seven Americans suffers from food insecurity. They do not know when they will have their next meal or where it will come from- some may even go to sleep without a warm meal.
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How swaddling your baby the wrong way can lead to hip dysplasia
Most people aren’t familiar with the term “hip dysplasia.” This little known condition is the leading cause of hip arthritis in young women and accounts for 10% of all total hip replacements in the United States.
