Links For Kids

The following is a list of excellent Web based consumer health topics developed for children and teens

Bandaides and Blackboards - Kids
This site has over 180 pages of excellent information for children, teens and parents. Written by a nurse in Connecticut, these sites take viewers on a virtual tour of procedures that happen in a hospital. Information for siblings of sick children, essays by kids for kids and how to cope with teasing are featured links.

Bandaides and Blackboards - Teens
This site is an excellent resource for and about kids who grow up with medical problems. It is written from their own perspective and how the cope with life.

FDA Kid's Site
A kid web page created by the FDA, this site offers sections on food safety. Other interesting features are drug definitions of the contents of the home medicine cabinet, as well as information on diseases that people get vaccinated against.

KidsHealth for Kids
This site has a series of pull-down menus dealing with a series of topics. Featured are sections on aches and pains, healthy recipes, and feelings.

KidsHealth for Teens
Teens can use this site to find information on eating disorders, healthy snacks, moods, feelings and a question and answer format dealing with sexuality.

Medline's Children's Page
Directory of websites aimed for children about health, medical conditions, safety and the human body.

Medline's Teen's Page
Directory of websites aimed for teens about health, medical conditions, safety and the human body

Mercy Bear's Big Adventures
A teddy bear goes through several routine medical procedures, explaining them in easy to understand terms. This site is beautifully illustrated and excellent for explaining medical procedures to small children.

This page contains links to web sites which provide health information. Please note that these sites are not affiliated with The Montreal Children’s Hospital Family Resource Library.