YOUR WELLNESS GUIDE
CREATING WELLNESS THAT LASTS A LIFETIME
Welcome to Your Wellness Guide. We provide a print version of the Your Wellness Guide at all of our well visits. This is a supplemental list of resources to learn more about topics that will support your family in creating wellness that lasts a lifetime. To use this portion of Your Wellness Guide, simply click on the tab that corresponds with your child’s age and click on links to read more. Visit our blog for other valuable information.
Birth to 6 Months
Car Seats – tips and infographic
Newborn and Older Sibling – Create Special Time for Each Child–
Crib Safety Guidelines – Consumer Product Safety Commission
How to Calm a Fussy Baby – Swaddling Your Baby – 5 S’s recommended in the book: The Happiest Baby on the Block, by Harvey Karp, MD
Safe Co-Sleeping Guidelines and Resources for Co-Sleeping By Notre Dame
Bedtime routine – National Sleep Foundation and The Baby Center
Choosing Quality Child Care – Choosing Child Care Center, Parent Checklists for Child Care Facility Visits, Finding a sitter
Storage and Handling of Human Milk by CDC, Milk storage do’s and don’ts by Mayo clinic, Formula Feeding FAQ: Preparation and storage
Gut health – Guts, Bugs, & Babies – Build Your Microbiome
Preparing for Feeding your Baby – Baby Led Feeding Podcast; Baby Led Feeding: A Natural Way to Raise Happy, Independent Eaters by Jenna Helwig[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]
6 – 11 months
Baby Led Weaning – Baby Led Feeding Podcast; Baby Led Feeding: A Natural Way to Raise Happy, Independent Eaters by Jenna Helwig
Developmental games – Developmental games for 10 month olds, So Big Game, 11 fun activities 6-12 months,
Bedtime routine – National Sleep Foundation and The Baby Center
Fussy Baby – Book: The Happiest Baby on the Block, by Harvey Karp, MD
Separation Anxiety – How to Ease Your Child’s Separation Anxiety
AAP Healthychild.org Toddler articles – https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/toddler/Pages/default.aspx
Car Seats – AAP Recommendations and tips and infographic
Nutrition and Serving Sizes for Toddlers – https://www.healthychildren.org/English/healthy-living/nutrition/Pages/How-Children-Develop-Unhealthy-Food-Preferences.aspx and https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/toddler/nutrition/Pages/Serving-Sizes-for-Toddlers.aspx
Sleep Routines for Toddlers – https://www.babycentre.co.uk/a558218/bedtime-routines-for-toddlers
Limit Setting and Discipline- training-toddlers-to-obey/setting-boundaries-for-toddlers and 8 tools for toddler discipline and how to make time out work.
Separation anxiety – https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/toddler/Pages/Soothing-Your-Childs-Separation-Anxiety.aspx
Biting – https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/toddler/Pages/Aggressive-Behavior.aspx
Preparing for toilet training – https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/toddler/toilet-training/Pages/default.aspx
Media Use – AAP Media Plan and Common Sense Media
AAP Healthychild.org Ages & Stages Toddler and Preshool pages offer a variety of developmental information and guidance.
Chores – your 2-3 year old can do chores! They can assist with making their beds, pick up playthings with supervision, take their dirty laundry to baskets, fill up a pet’s food and water bowls with supervision, help parents clean up spills and dirt, dust.
Nutrition – Sample Menu for 2 year old and Selecting snacks for toddlers and healthy serving sizes and How Children develop Unhealthy Food Preferences
Car Seats – AAP Recommendations and tips and infographic
Emotional Development – https://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/preschool/Pages/Emotional-Development-in-Preschoolers.aspx
Learn about the impact of media and screens and how you can minimize the impact now. Families Managing Media
Special time – https://www.handinhandparenting.org/article/how-special-time-makes-children-content/
Media Use – AAP Media Plan and Common Sense Media
Car Seats – AAP Recommendations and tips and infographic
Healthychild.org Ages & Stages Page for Preschoolers
Nutrition – Serving sizes by age
Parenting Resources –
- Hand in Hand Parenting
- Emotional development
- Limit Setting & Discipline
- Special time
- Families Managing Media – learn about impact of screens on brain (and overall) development and how to create healthy use of cell phones, video games, and other media.
- Calming when upset/angry and Calming Strategies
Media Use – AAP Media Plan and Common Sense Media
Nutrition
Serving sizes by age and Ensuring adequate Calcium intake
Booster Seats and Seat Belts
AAP Recommendations and tips
Parenting Resources
- Families Managing Media – learn about impact of screens on brain (and overall) development and how to create healthy use of cell phones, video games, and other media. Media Use – AAP Media Plan and Common Sense Media
- Hand in Hand Parenting
- Calming when upset/angry and Calming Strategies
- Building resilience through discipline
- Girlology – This is a great resource for online and in person classes about what to discuss regarding puberty. Some girls at 8 or 9 will already begin their pubertal development and this company provides great resources for learning about puberty and discussing it with your daughter. They offer a subscription service for a variety of pre-teen and teen related topics.
Age Appropriate Chores
- Make their bed every day
- Brush teeth
- Comb hair
- Choose the day’s outfit and get dressed
- Write thank you notes with supervision
- Be responsible for a pet’s food, water and exercise
- Vacuum individual rooms
- Wet mop individual rooms
- Fold laundry with supervision
- Put their laundry in their drawers and closets
- Put away dishes from the dishwasher
- Help prepare food with supervision
- Empty indoor trash cans
- Answer the phone with supervision
- Take care of personal hygiene
- Keep bedroom clean
- Be responsible for homework
- Be responsible for belongings
- Write thank you notes for gifts
- Wake up using an alarm clock
- Wash dishes
- Wash the family car with supervision
- Prepare a few easy meals on their own
- Clean the bathroom with supervision
- Rake leaves
- Learn to use the washer and dryer
- Put all laundry away with supervision
- Take the trash can to the curb for pick up
- Test smoke alarms once a month with supervision
- Screen phone calls using caller ID and answer when appropriate
Nutrition
Serving sizes by age and Ensuring adequate Calcium intake
Safety Websites & Resources
Seat Belts for Older Children and Adults; Parent are the Key to Safe Teen Drivers
Parenting Resources
- Hand in Hand Parenting
- Families Managing Media – learn about impact of screens on brain (and overall) development and how to create healthy use of cell phones, video games, and other media. Media Use – AAP Media Plan and Common Sense Media
- Disciplining – Big Kid Discipline Discipline strategies
- Puberty
- Girlology – This is a great resource for online and in person classes about what to discuss regarding puberty – for girls and for boys. This company provides great resources for learning about puberty and discussing it with your daughter. They offer a subscription service for a variety of pre-teen and teen related topics.
Prevention of Drug and Alcohol Use
- Growing Up Drug Free – A Parent’s Guide to Prevention
- Talk it Out NC
- How to keep your Teens Safe from Prescription Painkillers
Vaping/E-Cigarettes
For Teens
- Puberty and Sexuality – http://www.iwannaknow.org/teens/index.html
- Know the Facts about Drugs and Alcohol at http://abovetheinfluence.com/ and www.talkitoutnc.org
- Teens and Sleep
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline – 1-800-273-8255; Crisis Text Line – 741741
For Parents
- Parent are the Key to Safe Teen Drivers and Driving safety and Parent/Teen driving agreement
- Bullying
- Sexual Health – Be an Askable Parent and I Wanna Know
- Teens and Sleep
- Prevention of Drug and Alcohol Use –Growing Up Drug Free – A Parent’s Guide to Prevention
- How to keep your Teens Safe from Prescription Painkillers
- Talk with Your Teen about E-Cigarettes: A Tip Sheet for Parents
- Facts for Parents about E-Cigarettes & Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems
- Discipline Strategies
- Build Your Microbiome
- Media Use – AAP Media Plan and Common Sense Media
- Girlology – this company provides a subscription service that provides parents with resources for having conversations with their teens about a variety of topics – with new topics every day.
