Parenting a child with chronic pain or illness can feel overwhelming—but you’re not alone. CHYP’s Parenting Blog offers expert guidance, practical tips, and emotional support to help you navigate this journey. From understanding pediatric pain to fostering resilience, advocating for medical care, and finding creative coping strategies, our blog covers a wide range of essential topics. Sign up via our mailing list to receive the weekly blog straight to your inbox, or explore past topics below. You’re not alone—we’re here to help.
We’re All in the Pool: A Develop-Mental Way to Think About Children’s Mental Health
Speak with your child rather than about your child.
Fostering Agency: Building Confidence to Reduce the Impact of Chronic Pain in Young People
Speak with your child rather than about your child.
The Power of Family CranioSacral Therapy (CST) Treatments and the Significance Detector
Children are deeply connected to their environment, particularly to their parents and immediate family…
The True Goal of Pain Management
— it’s not so much resolving pain as restoring function.
The Teen, The Pain, and The Missing Zzzs
It can be fun and collaborative to harness your child’s creativity (and yours!) to affect sensations in their body….
Strategies to Manage Common Characteristics of Youth with Chronic Pain, Pt. 2
It can be fun and collaborative to harness your child’s creativity (and yours!) to affect sensations in their body….
Strategies to Manage Common Characteristics of Youth with Chronic Pain, Part 1
Learn how to prevent over-stimulation, release unwanted energy, and create a protective shield around your personal energy field.
Parenting Without Certainty
There are no perfect ways to protect our kids. There is only a wellspring of love and care from…
Supporting a Child Living With Chronic Pain: Gentle Practices for a More Peaceful Summer
Summer does not have to be about doing more. Sometimes healing begins when we finally slow down enough to…
Getting the Blueprint of Your Child: A Summer ‘True Temperature Check’
The goal is not to “fix” the child. The goal is to understand: Who is this child when they…
Why Scoliosis and TMJ Disorders Can Be Interrelated
Scoliosis and TMJ disorders are deeply interconnected through posture, fascial continuity, and compensatory mechanisms.
How to Support Your Child Through Outings that Require Recovery
This post is written from the perspective of a young person who participated in CHYP. Outings and events are…