About Sibling Rivalry While many kids are lucky enough to become the best of friends with their siblings, it’s common for brothers and sisters to fight. (It’s also common for them to swing back and forth between adoring and detesting one other!) Often, sibling rivalry starts even before the second …
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Survey Results: How Do Parents and Kids Get Along?
How well do kids and parents get along? Most say pretty well, but relationships can start to fray as children get older, according to a survey done by KidsHealth.org and TIME for Kids. First, the good news. The online survey of 900 parents and 9,000 kids found that: 85% of …
Taking Your Child to a Therapist
Sometimes kids, like adults, can benefit from therapy. Therapy can help kids develop problem-solving skills and also teach them the value of seeking help. Therapists can help kids and families cope with stress and a variety of emotional and behavioral issues. Many kids need help dealing with school stress, such …
Teaching Your Child Tolerance
America is the great “melting pot,” a rich blend of cultural traditions from all over the world. Many American families can trace their histories to immigrant ancestors who traveled great distances, enduring risk and hardship, to make a home where they would be guaranteed basic freedoms. And for many American …
Tips for Divorcing Parents
Every Family Is Different What’s the best way to help your family get through a divorce? Every situation — and every family — is different. But some stress reducing guidelines might make the adjustment a bit easier. These suggestions can make the process less painful for kids, teens, and families. …
Traveling Without Your Child
Leaving your child at home while you travel may feel a bit frightening and stressful if you’ve never done it before — and even if you have! But you can prepare your child before you leave so that both of you can feel more comfortable. Are Kids Ready? Kids’ readiness to …
What Kids Say About: Handling Stress
Compared with what adults face, it might seem like kids don’t have that much to stress about. But kids have their own concerns — and sometimes feel stress, just as adults do. And kids’ stresses can be just as overwhelming, particularly if they don’t have effective coping strategies. A KidsHealth® …
When a Pet Dies
For most kids, pets are more than just animals their families own — they’re members of the family and the best of friends. Unfortunately, the joy of owning a pet goes hand-in-hand with the heartbreak of losing one, whether because of old age, illness, or an accident. And that can …
Stool Tests
Stool (or feces) is usually thought of as nothing but waste — something to quickly flush away. But bowel movements can provide doctors with valuable information as to what’s wrong when a child has a problem in the stomach, intestines, or another part of the gastrointestinal system. A doctor may …
Strep Test: Rapid
What It Is A rapid strep test involves a quick throat swab. Within minutes, the test can show the presence of group A streptococcus bacteria, which can cause strep throat and other infections (including scarlet fever, abscesses, and pneumonia). Strep throat is a bacterial infection that affects the back of …