Show Topics

Below is an alphabetical list of all the topics covered to date on Keeping Kids Healthy.   Our topics can also be viewed by category.  Please click on a specific topic for a synopsis of that episode, a list of guests, any tips or hints mentioned by our experts as well as additional resources for each health issue.

Please remember that many of our shows have more than one topic, so either scroll up or down to see the other topic covered during that particular show.

If you would like to purchase a copy of a Keeping Kids Healthy episode or segment, click here.

For more information on many pediatric health issues, please click here to find our Child Health Library with more than 4000 pages of clinical content.

9/11
ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
ADHD, How to Cope with
Adapting to a New Baby (Childrearing Transitions) 
Adapting to Your Child's Personality
Adolescent AIDS
Adoption
Adopting a Foster Child: The Child's View
Adopting a Foster Child: The Family's View
Adolescent Onset Schizophrenia: 1 in 100 Young People
AIDS in Adolescents
Allergies (to Food)
Alcohol Abuse
Alcohol and Teens
Alcoholic Parent (When Mom or Dad is an Alcoholic: Coping Tips)
Alternative Medicine (Holistic)
Anorexia: Recognizing & Combatting it in Your Child
Antibiotics Alert: Can They Harm Your Child?
Antidepressants & Children (Depression)
Anxiety (Teen Anxiety Disorder)
Are We There Yet: Tips for Safe & Healthy Travel with Kids
Arthritis in Children
Asperger Syndrome
Asthma (Controlling Asthma with an Asthma Action Plan)
Asthma: A Dangerous Epidemic
Ataxia, Friedreich's (Living with)
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Autism
Baby (Adapting to a New Baby) - Childrearing Transitions
Back Trouble and Kids
Basic Training Tips for New Dads
Bedtimes (Better Bedtimes for Young Children)
Best-Ever Parent (Do You Have to Be the Best-Ever Parent)
Bipolar Disorder in Children
Body Image and Self Esteem
Body Piercings and Teens
Borderline Personality Disorder in Children
Boys & Girls, The Differences Between
Brain Chemistry in Teens
Breastfeeding Your Baby
Bullying (Girl Bullying)
Cancer in Kids
Caring for Kids with Life-Threatening Illnesses
Celiac Disease
Chicken Pox
Child Abuse
Childcare (Finding the Right Childcare)
Childhood Onset Schizophrenia: A Life Interrupted
Childrearing Transitions: Adapting to a New Baby
Childrearing Transitions: Coping with Your Pre-Teen
Choking and Drowning, Preventing
Choosing the Right Doctor
Chronic Illness: A Journey to What's Possible
Chronic Illness in Kids – The Parents’ Burden
Chronic Illness in Teens
Cigarettes & Kids
Circumcision: Is it Right for Your Child?
Cleft Palate, Repairing
Clinical Depression in Kids
Clown Therapy
Cochlear Implants
Communicating with Your Doctor
Communicating with Your Teenager
Computers and Kids
Confidentiality, Between Minors and Their Doctors
Conquering Spinal Cord Injury (Triumph of the Spirit I)
Coping Tips for Mom
Coping with ADHD
Coping with Grief
Coping with Your Pre-Teen (Childrearing Transitions)
Co-Sleeping (Sharing Your Bed with Your Child)
Cutting (Self-Injury in Children)
Cystic Fibrosis
Dangers of Sports
Deaf Children – Cochlear Implants
Depression & Antidepressants
Depression in Children
Diabetes (Living with Diabetes)
Dialysis and Teens
Differences Between Boys & Girls
Differences Between Girls & Boys
Disaster Preparedness and Children
Discipline (How to Discipline Your Child)
Divorce
Divorce: Protecting Your Kids from the Pain

Down Syndrome (Raising a Child with Down Syndrome)
Dressing Dramas: Stop the Struggle
Drinking and Teens
Driving (while Drowsy)
Drowning and Choking, Preventing
Drowsy Driving and Teens
Ear Infections
Eat Right, Get Your Kids to
Eating Disorders
Emergencies in the Home
Epilepsy
Environmental Toxins: Protecting Your Kids from Mercury,Lead & Pesticides
Extreme Shyness, Overcoming
Fevers
Finding the right Childcare
Finding the Right Doctor
Fire Safety
Fitness with Lynn Swann
Flu
Folk Remedies
Food Allergies
Foster Children: The Child's View
Foster Children: The Family View
Friedreich's Ataxia, Living with
Gay Teens (Parenting Gay Teens)
Get Your Kids to Eat Right
Girl Bullying
Girls & Boys, The Differences Between
Glycogen Storage Disease
Grandparents who Parent
Great Nutrition for the Cheapest Price
Grief (Helping Your Child Cope with Grief)
Headaches in Children
Health and Fitness with Lynn Swann
Hearing Loss
Heart Defects in Children
Hemophilia in Kids
Hidden Dangers of Sports
Holidays (Teens Home for the Holidays)
Holistic Medicine
Home Emergencies
Home, Safety in and Around
Homework
Homosexual Teenagers (Parenting Gay Teens)
How to Talk to Your Kids About Sex
Imaginary Friends
Internet Safety
Journey Through Paralysis (Triumph of the Spirit II)
Kidney Dialysis
Kids with Life-Threatening Illnesses
Lead Poisoning
Lead and other Environmental Toxins: Protecting Your Kids
Learning and Music with Bob McGrath
Learning Disabilities
Life-Threatening Illness in Kids
Limits (Setting Limits)
Living with Diabetes
Living with Friedreich's Ataxia
Low Cost / Great Nutrition
Loss of Hearing
Lupus
Lyme Disease
Making the Medical Experience Less Scary
Medical Confidentiality for Minors
Medical Experience (Making it Less Scary)
Meningitis, Preventing
Mom's Coping Tips
Money & Kids
Mercury and other Environmental Toxins: Protecting Your Kids
Music and Learning with Bob McGrath
Naptime
New Baby (Adapting to a...) - Childrearing Transitions
New Dads
Newborn Babies, Nursing Moms
Night Terrors (Sleep Apnea)
Nutrition, Great Nutrition for the Cheapest Price
Obesity and Children
Obesity (Overcoming Obesity)
Obsessive Compuslive Disorder (and Strep Throat)
Older Moms: Having a Baby When You're Over 40
Overscheduled Family Survival Guide
Overweight Kids
Pacifiers and Thumbsucking
Palliative Care
Paralysis
Parents of Kids with Chronic Illnesses
Personality (Adapting to Your Child’s Personality)
Pesticides and other Environmental Toxins: Protecting Your Kids
Pet Therapy
Pets and Kids
Piercings (Body Piercings and Teens)
Postpartum Depression
Preemies
Pregnancy and Teenagers
Premature Babies
Pre-Natal Care
Pre-Teen, Coping with... - Childrearing Transitions
Preventing Choking and Drowning
Preventing Lead Poisoning  
Preventing Meningitis
Raising Kids in Times of Crisis
Safety in and Around the House
Schizophrenia (Adolescent Onset Schizophrenia: 1 in 100 Young People)
Schizophrenia (Childhood Onset Schizophrenia: A Life Interrupted)
School Violence
Scoliosis
Sickle Cell Disease
Sleep Apnea, Night Terros
Sleep Stealers
Spinal Cord Injury, Conquering (Triumph of the Spirit I)
Speech Therapy
Sports Dangers
Sports Injuries and Kids
Step-Parenting
Street Smarts
Strep Throat &Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Strokes (Recognizing Strokes in Children)
Stuttering
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
Suicide (Teen uicide)
TV (The Effects of TV on Kids)

Talking to Your Kids about Sex

Talking with Teenagers
Teen Axiety Disorder: Taking It Seriously
Teen Brain Chemistry
Teen Pregnancy
Teen Suicide
Teens, Communicating with
Teens and Drinking
Teens and Drowsy Driving
Teens Home for the Holidays
Teens with Chronic Illness
Television (The Effects of Television on Kids)
Tips for Moms
Tips for New Dads
Toddler Tips with Penelope Leach and Kyle Pruett 
Tooth Decay
Toxins (Environmental Toxins: Protecting Your Kids from Mercury, Lead & Pesticides)
Transitions, Childrearing - Adapting to a New Baby
Transitions, Childrearing - Coping with Your Pre-Teen
Traveling with Kids
Triumph of the Spirit I: Conquering Spinal Cord Injury
Triumph of the Spirit II: A Child's Journey Through Paralysis
Twins
Vaccines
Violence (Youth Violence: Breaking the Cycle)
Violence in School
Vision
Whooping Cough
Your Child’s Personality
Youth Violence