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Tween tracking food
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Should Tweens Use Health Apps?
Experts caution parents to research health apps before tweens use them and consider such factors as privacy, ad content and body image impact.
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Thrive With Your Family: Supporting Kids With Chronic Diseases During COVID-19
Children with chronic conditions may need extra support during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our expert panel offers advice and tips for parents navigate these challenges.
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Rare, COVID-Related Inflammatory Disease Affecting Children
A rare and potentially fatal COVID-related disease is affecting some kids. A children's health expert discusses what is being called multi-system inflammatory syndrome, or MIS-C.
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Mother’s Day Wishes for 2020
A tribute to mothers who delivered babies during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Thrive With Your Family: Supporting Kids with Special Needs and Preventing Sibling Fights
Experts discuss how to help kids with autism and development delays cope with change, and provide communication tips for family conflicts.
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Thrive With Your Family: Teens and the Pandemic
How to help teens emotionally adjust to social distancing and how to balance increased media use along with online learning and socializing. 
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Thrive with Your Family: Parental Self-Care, COVID-19 Anxiety and Managing Screen Time
Experts talk about maintaining your well-being as a parent, helping kids manage anxiety around the coronavirus and how to handle sleep regression and electronic use.
image of a phone with pregnancy growth milestones on it surrounded by green covid-19 cells
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12 Things to Know About COVID-19 and Pregnancy
Being pregnant in the time of coronavirus presents a new set of challenges for expectant parents. One doctor answers questions about pregnancy during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Girl in hospital room
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Avoiding Crowds is Nothing New for 10-Year-Old with Bone Marrow Disease
A rare childhood bone marrow disease made social distancing a requirement for one patient to mitigate the risk of infection long before COVID-19 required it of everyone.
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Thrive with Your Family: Processing Change
Experts tackle processing change while understanding feelings, responding to new behaviors, juggling home and work and managing screen time during the coronavirus crisis.
Autism, 6 things to do at home
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6 Ways to Support Children with Autism During the Pandemic
A child psychiatrist provides support resources for children with autism, and their caregivers, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pediatric trauma
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How to Prevent 7 Common Pediatric Injuries
Avoiding the emergency room for preventable childhood injuries is especially as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. A Michigan Medicine expert gives guidance on how to practice prevention for common child safety pitfalls, and avoid the ER.
Student on laptop at home on couch
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8 Ways to Help Teens Cope with Social Distancing Blues
Isolation is hard for all of us, but may be disproportionately difficult for teenagers who are missing major social milestones due to current necessary social distancing measures.
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Social Distancing With Kids
A childhood expert provides social distancing, routines and behavior management tips to help parents with kids now at home full time.
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7 Ways to Talk to Your Child About Good and Bad Touch
A national poll, conducted by pediatricians at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, covers sexual abuse and ways you as a parent can discuss the topic with your own children.