Welcome to Bladder Basics
Bladder problems affect many children and can often be improved through bladder health education.
Bladder Basics, developed by the Kan Lab at Stanford, offers free, evidence-based resources to help children, families, educators, and healthcare providers support children's healthy bladder habits.
Families
Need resources to support your child's bladder health at home?
Healthcare Providers
Need resources to support your patient's bladder health in your clinic?
Educators
Need resources to support students' bladder health and bathroom use at school?
Explore Bladder Basics
Watch individual Bladder Basics videos and songs anytime to learn about children's bladder health. No account or registration required.
Enjoy the complete Bladder Basics learning experience with interactive activities and a certificate of completion.
Bladder Basics Overview
Bladder Basics is an engaging, informative, and most importantly, fun video series that teaches children and their families about bladder health. That’s right! Your bladder is the part of your body that holds pee. We need to follow healthy bladder habits to keep it happy.
Why Bladder Health?
As kids grow, they can often develop new problems after potty training such as (pee) accidents during the day, rushing to the bathroom, pain with peeing, and urinary tract infections. The right habits can often help improve bladder health and prevent bladder problems.
Target Audience:
- Kids: Ages 5-10 years with or without bladder problems.
- Parents and Caregivers: Watch with your child to support your child’s healthy habits.
- Family Members and Friends: Feel free to watch. There’s always something new to learn!
Using Bladder Basics:
This series includes seven videos. Each video is ~10 minutes long and covers a different topic related to bladder health.
Introduction to Bladder Basics
6 minutes
Act 1: Getting to Know Our Bladders
13 minutes
Act 2: Learning Why Our Bladders Become Unhappy
8 minutes
Act 3: Why Poop Is Important to Bladder Health
8 minutes
Act 4: Making Our Bladders Happy
16 minutes
Act 5: Launching Our Bladder Health Journeys
10 minutes
Resources for Parents
8 minutes
Families
Need resources to support your child's bladder health at home?
Healthcare Providers
Need resources to support your patient's bladder health in your clinic?
Educators
Need resources to support students' bladder health and bathroom use at school?
Disclaimers
Kai, Bladimir, Brainhavi, Waterlupe, and Pootrick are five main characters that you will meet in Bladder Basics. Their names, characteristics, stories, clinical symptoms, and in-session details are an amalgam of many different cases from practice and do not reflect any specific patient. The case animations do not contain any identifiable patient data. Any similarity with real patients is purely coincidental.
The Video Content has been made available for informational and educational purposes only. The Video Content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read or seen on this site. Stanford hereby disclaims any and all liability to any party for any direct, indirect, implied, punitive, special, incidental or other consequential damages arising directly or indirectly from any use of the Video Content, which is provided as is, and without warranties.
Copyright and Educational Reuse
Copyright Statement
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All content in Bladder Basics has been created by the Kan Lab at Stanford University. You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, modify, create derivative works, or in any other way exploit any part of copyrighted material without the prior written permission from Kan Lab at Stanford University. For questions, please email kkan@stanford.edu.
Educational Reuse Statement
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