Hope and Will: A Parenting Podcast from Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Welcome to Hope and Will: A Parenting Podcast from Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. We’re here to ease the minds of moms and dads by serving up doses of insight from pediatric specialists and real stories from parents like you. By combining medical smarts with practical experience, our goal is to help make the journey from diapers to diplomas a little less scary, helping you raise healthier, more resilient kids along the way. Georgia families know when they see Hope and Will, our beloved mascots, they’re in good hands—and we Hope you Will come to know us as an extended part of your parenting family.
- Update frequency
- every 28 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 34
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Is Your Child Getting Enough Sleep?
If you have kids, you won’t be surprised to hear that “Is my child getting enough sleep?” and “hours of sleep by age” are top digital search queries.
In this episode of Hope and Will: A Parenting Podc…
Keeping Kids Safe Online
As technology becomes a bigger part of childhood, parenting in a digital age presents new challenges and risks. From video games and smartphones to social media and AI, digital platforms are giving k…
Pediatric Healthcare Deserts in Rural Georgia
Rural towns across Georgia are home to special, tight-knit communities that fill vital roles in our state economy. Unfortunately, lack of access to high-quality medical care can make it challenging t…
Heads Up: Protecting Kids from Concussions
Parents know these panicky moments all too well: a tumble off the couch, a hit on the field, the bonking of heads during a bout of roughhousing. Concussions are more common than many of us realize, a…
Phones Off, Focus On: Benefits of a Phone-Free Classroom
Teens receive hundreds of phone notifications a day. Those notifications aren’t just a distraction—they’re reshaping how kids learn, engage and feel.
In this episode of Hope and Will: A Parenting Podc…
Sick of Being Sick? How to Stop the Cycle
In this episode of Hope and Will: A Parenting Podcast from Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, we take a close look at the relentless cycle of flu, RSV and other viruses that have been hitting families…
Button Batteries: What Parents Need to Know
In this eye-opening episode of Hope and Will: A Parenting Podcast from Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, we dive into the hidden—yet very serious—dangers of button battery ingestion. Laura Johnson, m…
Precious Cargo: How We Safely Transported 202 Patients in 10 Hours
At Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024 was a day nearly a decade in the making. More than 200 Children’s patients—including several on advanced life support—traveled in a careful…
School Anxiety: How Parents Can Help
When kids enter school-age years, you reach a new stage of parenthood. As fun as it can be to shop for the latest school supplies, it’s also the dawn of a new season—one in which your kids will face …
Special Episode: Inside Our Helicopters and Ambulances
When a Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta helicopter flies overhead or a Children’s ambulance zooms past you, you know a child is in need of lifesaving care. Most of us are lucky enough to not know wha…
Golf Cart Safety: How a Casual Ride Led to the Fight of a Lifetime
Remember when hoverboards dominated headlines? The skateboard-like toys quickly became popular around the holidays in 2015 and, just as quickly, started landing kids in hospitals with injuries.
Whil…
Preventing Sports Injuries in Kids and Teens
Every time an athlete heads out to a practice or a game, there’s risk for injury. As kids play more frequently and advance to more competitive teams, that risk increases.
From tee-ball to swimming to …
Our New Hospital: Everything Parents and Kids Want to Know
Arthur M. Blank Hospital will open Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024, at the site of our expanded North Druid Hills campus. If you’ve driven on I-85 or North Druid Hills Road in the past few years, you’ve likel…
Helping Kids and Teens with Perfectionism
Perfectionism. It’s a word that, as a society, we tend to hold in high regard. We associate it with people who are overachievers and have high standards. These individuals appear to have it all toget…
Screen Time and Kids: Balancing the Benefits and Struggles
This episode explores the No. 1 topic requested by our listeners: screen time. You might know it as the ultimate love-hate relationship of parenting.
No matter what your thoughts were about screens …
What Parents Don’t Know They Need to Know
If parenting had a secret menu, these conditions could get top billing: febrile seizures, nursemaid’s elbow, toxic synovitis, pneumonia, impetigo. These conditions often fly under parental radars—unt…
Talking to Kids About the News and Current Events
When newsworthy events happen in the world, kids need help making sense of it all. While you may not have all the answers to their questions (and that’s OK!), there are guiding principles you can fol…
Keeping Kids Safe in Cars: Why “Just this Once” Isn’t Worth the Risk
Few things are more intimidating to a new parent than buckling a baby into their car seat for the first time. Then you blink and that same child is pressuring you to retire the booster seat—or even s…
Changing the Narrative on Suicide: The Parker Family’s Story
In January 2022, Erin Harlow-Parker and her family were thrust into headlines when her husband, Jeff Parker, died by suicide. At the time, Jeff was the CEO of MARTA, a well-respected businessman, fat…