The 11th annual World Kidney Day was celebrated on March 10, 2016, across the globe in an effort to better inform the general public, policymakers, and the medical community about the importance of childhood kidney disease and the growing recognition that the antecedents of adult kidney disease can begin in childhood. A recent study by Calderon-Margalit et al1 in the New England Journal of Medicine provides further insight into the long-term outcomes of children with a history of kidney disorders that were assessed as having resolved by late adolescence.