Caregiver Advice
Ages and Stages
If you have kids, you probably have questions about their health. The staff at Cook Children's Neighborhood Clinics share explanations, symptoms and tips that answer many of the questions parents and kids ask us about the most.
Developmental Milestones to age 5
CDC's Developmental Milestones from 2 months to 5 years.
Get the CDC Milestone Tracker app - ages 2 months-5 years
Expectant and new parents
Safe sleep
Period of Purple Crying
Healthy mom
- Tips for a Healthy Pregnancy
- Are you really eating for two?
- 10 Things No One Told You
- What to Expect Week-by-Week
- Things to Avoid While Pregnant
Birth to 6 months
6 months-2 years
Feeding and healthy eating
Discipline
Home safety
Establishing routines
- Sleep
- Sleep 4-7 months
- Sleep 8-12 months
- Sleep 1-2 years
- Food portions and routines
- Toddler reading time
3-5 years
School readiness
Nutrition
- Nutrition guide
- Snacks
- The importance of breakfast
- Hunger and your preschooler
- Strategies for feeding your preschooler
- Portion control and serving sizes
Fitness
- Fitness for preschoolers
- The magic of play and early development
- Getting your preschooler to be active
- Cooking with preschoolers
- Raising a fit preschooler
Safety
Personal hygiene
Screen time
Boundaries and discipline
- How to discipline your child without spanking
- Effective discpline
- How to discipline your child without spanking
Sleep
6-10 years
Physical growth and development
- Growth and your 6-12 year old
- Your child's checkup at age 6
- Your child's checkup at age 7
- Your child's checkup at age 8
- Your child's checkup at age 9
- Your child's checkup at age 10
Social and academic competence
- Communicating with your 6-12-year-old child
- How to help your child succeed in elementary school
- How to help your child succeed in middle school
- 10 tips for homework success
- Helping your child with homework
- Helping young readers
- Reading milestones
Nutrition and physical activity
- Fitness for school age kids
- Health and fun food tips for parents and kids
- Sports and energy drinks
- Getting your school-age kids to be physically active
- Active fitness for kids who don't like sports
- Healthy diet for young athletes
Safety for school age kids
- Choosing safe toys for school age kids
- Bicycle safety
- Preventing concussions
- Safe skateboarding
- Staying safe on the Internet
- Outdoor water safety
Screen time
Bullying
- About cyberbullying
- How to help your child deal with bullying
- How to help your child deal with teasing
- Teaching your child not to bully
ADHD
- Understanding ADHD
- Parenting a child with ADHD
- School and your ADHD child
- Therapy and your ADHD child
- Medicines for kids with ADHD
11-15 years
- A parents guide to surviving the teen years
- Your child's checkup at age 11
- Your child's checkup at age 12
- Your child's checkup at age 14
- Your child's checkup at age 14
- Your child's checkup at age 15
- Understanding puberty
- Talking to your child about periods
- Female reproductive system
- Male reproductive system
- Sexual development
- Precocious puberty
- Body odor and feeling fresh
- Puberty for boys
- Dealing with acne
Personal hygiene
Social and academic competence
- Understanding shyness
- Developing self-esteem
- Developing confidence
- Help for high school success
- Homework help
- Sexual attraction and orientation
- Abusive relationships
Nutrition and physical safety
- Nutrition: 5 ways to get your 5 a day
- Healthy eating for sports and athletic activities
- Sports physicals
- Sports safety
- Strength training
Dating and social safety
- Sexting: What parents need to know
- Cyberbullying
- Internet safety
- Sexual harrassment
- Protecting your online identity
- Date rape: what parents need to know
- Date rape: what teens need to know
- Dealing with bullies
- Dealing with family abuse
- Abusive relationships
Sleep hygiene and screen time
- Sleep for teens
- How much sleep do teens need
- 5 tips for better sleep
- Can you catch up on sleep?
- Screen time guidelines for teens
- Healthy TV, video game and Internet habits
HPV Vaccine
Substance abuse
Depression, anxiety, ADHD
- What is drepression
- Talking to your parents about drepression
- Understanding stress
- Anxiety
- ADHD for teens
- Parenting a teen with ADHD
16-18 years
Transitioning to adult care
Nutrition and physical safety
- Nutrition: 5 ways to get your 5 a day
- Healthy eating for sports and athletic activities
- Sports physicals
- Sports safety
- Strength training
Dating and social safety
- Sexting: What parents need to know
- Cyberbullying
- Internet safety
- Sexual harrassment
- Protecting your online identity
- Date rape: what parents need to know
- Date rape: what teens need to know
- Dealing with bullies
- Dealing with family abuse
- Abusive relationships
- Driving safety
School activities and school work
- Organizing school work and assignments
- Tips for taking notes
- Writing a paper for school
- Homework made easier
- Studying for tests
- Tips for test taking
- Summer jobs and internships
Sleep hygiene and screen time
- Sleep for teens
- How much sleep do teens need
- 5 tips for better sleep
- Can you catch up on sleep?
- Screen time guidelines for teens
- Healthy TV, video game and Internet habits
Depression, anxiety, ADHD
- What is drepression
- Talking to your parents about drepression
- Understanding stress
- Anxiety
- ADHD for teens
- Parenting a teen with ADHD
Additional resources from Cook Children's
- Health Care Notebook
- Checkup Newsroom
- Gun safety
- Reading milestones
- Feeding your family on a small budget
- Health body image from babies to teens
- Developing your child's self-esteem
- Recognizing eating disorders
- What is obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)?
- What is obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)?
- Parent Resource Center
- Teen Resource Center
- Kid Resource Center
- Child Safety Center
- Cook Children's Checkup Newsroom
- Learn about issues affecting North Texas children