Jill Martin bonded with the Ortiz family through her involvement with the Garden of Dreams Foundation and learned how parents Idalia and Abel are working tirelessly amid the pandemic to create normalcy for their two children with difficult medical diagnoses. Jill paid them a visit in the spirit of the holidays and, with help from actor Tracy Morgan, gave them a huge surprise.
Holiday decorations usually start popping up after Thanksgiving, but in households across America, waiting that long was just one more tradition to go by the wayside in 2020. NBC’s Kerry Sanders reports for TODAY.
A new study from the CDC says that many parents are feeding their babies solid foods too soon. Researchers found that nearly a third of infants began solid foods at 4 months old, rather than the 6 months recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
In this new series, TODAY National Investigative Correspondent Jeff Rossen – father of adventurous kids – will make your child the safest on the block.
Peer Health Exchange is a unique program that trains college students to teach skills-based health curriculum in under-resourced high schools across the country. In our latest episode of “Mental Health & America’s Kids,” we learn how the nonprofit has deployed a new curriculum in Boston that focuses on mental health and self-care to help freshmen high school students cope with the isolation of remote learning. “Mental Health & America’s Kids” is in collaboration with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.