This is Pedicast.

Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello everyone and welcome.

Once again to PDACast.

It is a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike, coming to you from the campus of nationwide children's hospital.

We're in Columbus, Ohio.

It's episode 402 for April 26, 2018.

We're calling this one transitioning your teenager to young adulthood.

An important topic.

I want to welcome everyone to the program.

This one will be of particular interest to the parents in the crowd with kids in middle school and high school

as we consider transitioning those children from the teenage years to young adulthood.

Now if you have younger kids, keep in mind, babies and toddlers and preschoolers, they become school-age kids.

And before you know it, they're in middle school and high school.

Trust me, the time flies, and it's always good to be prepared, especially if your young child has a chronic

illness or a complex disease. You know, things like cerebral palsy, significant developmental delay,

extreme prematurity, congenital heart disease, sickle cell anemia, cystic fibrosis,

spina bifida, diabetes, asthma, really the list goes on and on.

For these kids, you know, it's really important to start young, providing age-appropriate

information about their condition and its management, you know, slowly let them take on some

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