Kids' Health and Wellness

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Building a Positive Foundation with Your Child

Building a positive foundation through consistent praise, active listening, and supportive interactions helps parents maintain a strong relationship with their children, making moments of discipline more effective and less disruptive.

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What is Emotional Regulation?

A change in environment for children can cause a change in emotions and behaviors. When they learn to regulate, it can help with these emotions.

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Supporting Children Through Loss & Trauma

Supporting children through grief or trauma involves providing love, understanding, and a safe space for their emotions while also caring for yourself as a caregiver.

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Are Vaccines Safe for Children?

Before vaccines, kids missed school for weeks, and parents lost work caring for sick children. Thanks to vaccination, these illnesses are now rare — but they can return if we stop protecting our kids.

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Understanding Aggression in Children

Aggression in children can be caused by an inability to communicate an emotion or a need. Making sure that you clearly respond without anger is really important because that only teaches them to continue to respond in that way.

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Autism Diagnostic Tools

Autism is diagnosed through a thorough clinical evaluation that combines parent insights, developmental assessments, and observations across home and school settings to determine the best approach for supporting each child.

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Newborn Head Shape

Babies are sometimes born with imperfectly shaped heads. So when should you be concerned?

A System of Pediatric Care

As a dedicated pediatric health system that includes New Hampshire's only children's hospital, we have the widest breadth of pediatric services available in the region.