Resources
Behavior and emotion resources
Coping with emotional or behavioral issues is hard. We get it, and that’s why we’ve put together resources to help you take those first steps on your journey toward better mental health.
Links of Hope support group
Links of Hope is a group of families and caregivers of children who have emotional and behavioral problems. Many of the children have a diagnosis of attention deficit disorder (ADD or ADHD), depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, or obsessive compulsive disorder.
Period of PURPLE Crying
The Period of PURPLE Crying is a concept developed by Dr. Ronald Barr, MCDM, FRCPC, as a new way to explain colic by educating parents about normal crying behavior and the dangers of shaking babies. The program uses positive messages for parents, rather than negative warnings about detrimental consequences, to improve their relationship with their baby.
Additional educational articles
Access these article resources that Cook Children's has identified to assist families with behavioral health diagnosis.
Your kid's sleep
Aches, pains and injuries
Sick kids
Your child's body
Feelings and emotions
- Anxiety, fears, and phobias
- Becoming a stepparent
- Body dysmorphic disorder
- Childhood stress
- Cutting
- Cyberbullying
- Developing your child's self-esteem
- Eating disorders
- Helping kids cope with stress
- Helping kids deal with bullies
- Helping kids handle worry
- Helping your child deal with death
- Helping your child through a divorce
- How can spirituality affect your family's health?
- How do I handle the transition when my husband returns from war?
- How do I help my kids deal with my husband's deployment?
- Is your child too busy?
- My son is being deployed; how do I help my other kids cope?
- Natural disasters: how families can help
- Postpartum depression
- Posttraumatic stress disorder
- Preparing your child for a move
- Preparing your child for a new sibling
- Questions and answers about sex
- Raising confident kids
- School violence and the news
- Seasonal affective disorder
- Separation anxiety
- Sexual attraction and orientation
- Sibling rivalry
- Taking your child to a therapist
- Teaching your child tolerance
- Tips for divorcing parents
- Traveling without your child
- Understanding depression
- What kids say about handling stress
- When a pet dies
Behavior
- A parent's guide to surviving the teen years
- About teen suicide
- Bedtime basics
- Binge eating disorder
- Breath-holding spells
- Compulsive exercise
- Cutting
- Delayed speech or language development
- Disciplining your child
- Errands survival kit
- Fire setting
- Helping kids cope with cliques
- Helping kids deal with bullies
- Helping teens who cut
- Kids and alcohol
- Kids and smoking
- My child is stealing
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Pica
- Soiling (encopresis)
- Sportsmanship
- Steroids
- Stuttering
- Talking to your child about drugs
- Taming tempers
- Teaching kids not to bully
- Teaching your child self-control
- Temper tantrums
- Toilet teaching your child
- What is ADHD?
- Your child's habits
Growing up
- A parent's guide to surviving the teen years
- Disciplining your toddler
- Helping your teen decide what to do after high school
- Is your child too busy?
- Making the holidays less materialistic
- Menstrual problems
- Signing kids up for sports
- Talking to your child about menstruation
- Talking to your child about puberty
- Understanding puberty
Communication
Feeding & eating
Growth
Learning & play
- Choosing safe toys
- Cooking with preschoolers
- Encouraging your child's sense of humor
- Games for preschoolers
- Games for toddlers
- Group games for school-age kids
- Help your child get organized
- Individualized education plans (IEPs)
- Introducing preschoolers to music
- Introducing toddlers to music
- Learning, play, and your 8- to 12-month-old
- Learning, play, and your 1- to 2-year-old
- Learning, play, and your 1- to 3-month-old
- Learning, play, and your 4- to 7-month-old
- Learning, play, and your newborn
- Music and your school-age child
- Rainy day fun
- Reading books to babies
- Safe exploring for preschoolers
- Safe exploring for toddlers
- School-age readers
- Should your preschooler play sports?
- Story time for preschoolers
- Toddler reading time
- Toddlers: learning by playing
- What's funny to a preschooler?
- What's funny to a school-age child?
- What's funny to a toddler?
Sleep
Sexual development
- About abstinence
- About birth control: what parents need to know
- About condoms
- About emergency contraception
- About fertility awareness
- About spermicide
- About withdrawal
- About the birth control patch
- About the birth control pill
- About the birth control ring
- About the birth control shot
- About the cervical cap
- About the diaphragm
- About the IUD
- How can I reassure my daughter that she'll get her period?
- Is it normal for an 11-year-old boy to fondle himself?
- My 1-year-old son always tries to touch his penis. Is this masturbation?
- Sexual attraction and orientation
- Sexual development
- Should girls who aren't sexually active be vaccinated against HPV?
- Understanding early sexual development
- When should my daughter first go to the gynecologist?
- When will a girl's period start?
General nutrition
Special dietary needs
Eating problems
General fitness
- Fitness and your 13- to 18-year-old
- Fitness and your 2- to 3-year-old
- Fitness and your 4- to 5-year-old
- Fitness and your 6- to 12-year-old
- Fitness for kids who don't like sports
- Games for preschoolers
- Games for toddlers
- Group games for school-age kids
- Home and away: how to keep toddlers active
- Is your preschooler too active?
- Motivating kids to be active
- Motivating preschoolers to be active
- Motivating school-age kids to be active
- Should your preschooler play sports?
- Signing kids up for sports
- Sportsmanship
- Toddlers: learning by playing
Exercise safety
Fitness problems
Exercise Q&A
Asthma
Brain & nervous system
- Abusive head trauma (shaken baby syndrome)
- Asperger syndrome
- Brain tumors
- Brain and nervous system cancers
- Cerebral palsy
- Concussions
- Epilepsy
- Fetal alcohol syndrome
- Hydrocephalus
- Is there a connection between vaccines and autism?
- Raising a child with autism: Paige and Iain's story
- Tourette syndrome
Ears, nose, throat/speech & hearing
Genetic, chromosomal & metabolic conditions
Learning disorders
Sexual & reproductive system
Sleep disorders
General health
- How can I encourage good hygiene habits?
- How can I help my teen quit smoking for good?
- How do I know which vaccines my kids need?
- How will I know if my child has trouble hearing?
- My child is worried about wetting the bed at a sleepover - how can I help?
- Should I start my child on an exercise program?
- Should my daughter sleep in my room after having a nightmare?
- What can I do about my child's bedwetting?
- What can I do to ease my child's fear of shots?
- When should kids start using deodorant?
- When will a girl's period start?
- Who should decide when kids are immunized?
Growing up
- How can I help my healthy daughter realize she's not fat?
- How can I help my son feel better about not having facial hair?
- How can I reassure my daughter that she'll get her period?
- Is it normal for an 11-year-old boy to fondle himself?
- Is my daughter too concerned with her looks?
- Is my son's voice changing too soon?
- My 1-year-old son always tries to touch his penis. Is this masturbation?
- My daughter is embarrassed about her period - how can I help her?
- My son wants to grow taller - what can I tell him?
- My young daughter is already developing breasts. Is this normal?
- When should I intervene during teasing?
- When should kids start using deodorant?
- When should my daughter first go to the gynecologist?
- When will a girl's period start?
- Why does puberty sometimes happen early?
Medical conditions
- Can vision problems affect school performance?
- Could ADHD be hereditary?
- Does Ritalin have side effects?
- How can I teach my daughter tolerance?
- How can parents help kids handle teasing?
- Is there a connection between vaccines and autism?
- Should girls who aren't sexually active be vaccinated against HPV?
- Why does puberty sometimes happen early?
Emotions and behavior
- Can playing video games be good for kids?
- Can vision problems affect school performance?
- Do babies have separation anxiety?
- How can I avoid struggles with my child about going to school?
- How can I get my kids to donate old toys?
- How can I help my child cope with divorce?
- How can I help my child cope with a friend's death?
- How can I help my child deal with my dating after divorce?
- How can I help my child deal with a breakup?
- How can I help my child deal with a bully?
- How can I help my child develop healthy self-esteem?
- How can I help my child overcome shyness?
- How can I help my daughter cope with the death of her father?
- How can I help my healthy daughter realize she's not fat?
- How can I help my son feel better about being a big brother?
- How can I help my son wake up in the morning?
- How can I help my toddler with separation anxiety?
- How can I help a child cope with a parent's suicide?
- How can I improve my child's eating habits?
- How can I stop my child from biting her nails?
- How can I stop my child from sucking her thumb?
- How can we discourage our toddler from biting?
- How do I handle the transition when my husband returns from war?
- How do I help my kids deal with my husband's deployment?
- How do I tell my son he's adopted?
- How influential are we as parents?
- How much exercising is too much?
- Is head banging normal?
- Is it normal for children to hold their breath?
- Is my daughter too concerned with her looks?
- Is my son's voice changing too soon?
- Is there a connection between vaccines and autism?
- My child is worried about wetting the bed at a sleepover - how can I help?
- My child may have an eating disorder what can I do?
- My daughter puts herself down – how can I help her?
- My son is being deployed; how do I help my other kids cope?
- My teen is breaking rules - what can I do?
- My young daughter is already developing breasts. Is this normal?
- Should I be worried about my child's nightmares?
- Telling a child about deployment
- What are the symptoms of an overeating disorder?
- What can be done about a child who steals?
- What can I do about my child's bedwetting?
- What can I do to stop my child from shoplifting?
- What causes night terrors?
- Why is my child anxious about going to school?
Pregnancy and infants
Parenting
- Am I 'too tough' when I discipline my kids?
- Are my kids watching too much TV?
- How can I help my child develop healthy self-esteem?
- How can I wean my reluctant 2-year-old?
- How can parents discipline without spanking?
- How do I know which vaccines my kids need?
- How influential are we as parents?
- How should I deal with a picky eater?
- How should I set an allowance for my child?
- My teen is breaking rules - what can I do?
- What can I do to ease my child's fear of shots?
- What can I do to stop my child from shoplifting?
- When should I intervene during teasing?
- When should kids start receiving an allowance?