Parenting Advice From Your Physicians at Kaiser Permanente

Parenting Young Kids? Put on Your Teacher Hat!

Positive parenting and clear boundaries make kids feel safe and encourages behavior that makes them – and you – feel proud. READ MORE

How Emotion Coaching Can Transform Your Parenting

Emotion coaching is a parenting approach meant to help children understand and manage their emotions. Instead of dismissing, ignoring, or punishing their feelings, you help them constructively express their emotions. READ MORE

How to Help Your Child Be a Good Friend

Little kids have the funniest ideas sometimes! Here’s one that took me by surprise: Some kids think they can have only one friend at a time! Help your child make and keep friendships. READ MORE

How to Discuss Violent Events and Disasters with Your Children

Even young children will hear about major news events – often from other children. It’s best if they get this information from you. READ MORE

Protecting Your Family from COVID-19 (Coronavirus)

As cases of COVID-19 (the illness caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus) spread in the world and appear in the U.S., parents have many questions. READ MORE

Is Your Child Too Sick for School? (Or, When Doctor Land’s Kid Threw Up on the Teacher)

At about 7:30 a.m., while I rushed to clean up breakfast, make lunches, dry my hair, and convince 3 slow kids to move along, I heard my son say, “Mom, I don't feel so good!” READ MORE

Getting Kids to Talk After School: Beyond “How Was Your Day?”

At the end of a long day at school, there’s nothing a kid wants to answer less than, “How was your day?” And yet, that’s what all of us parents ask. Why doesn’t this question work? READ MORE

National Child Abuse Prevention Month

As parents, we do everything possible to keep our kids safe – using car seats, keeping up with vaccinations, having them wear helmets, and more. April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month – a reminder to us all, doctors and parents alike, to focus our attention on keeping our kids safe from the dangers of abuse and neglect. READ MORE