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Help Children Make Friends Checklist
Kids and Teens • Published: November 21, 2007
This article offers helpful hints about helping children make friends. This list contains some truly unique and original hints.
My Child Is Sad
Home and Family: Parenting • Published: November 21, 2007
Everyone gets sad. Every single person has had sad feelings once in a while. It is normal to feel blue, isolated, down or out of sorts occasionally. More than half of teenagers go through a sad period at least once a month and younger children do too. This article offers some insight into why children become sad and what you can do to help.
How Does One Begin Healing From Sexual Abuse?
Self Improvement: Motivation • Published: November 21, 2007
How does one begin to healing from sexual abuse? The answer to that question is simply by putting the left foot down, picking it up and putting down the right foot, then repeating that sequence over and over. Healing from any trauma is done in inches, feet and miles, one step at a time. The highway to emotional health and wholeness may be a long or a short one, but it is best done with supportive people who want what is best for you.
How Do We Teach Respect And Assertiveness At The Same Time?
Home and Family: Parenting • Published: September 19, 2006
We spend hours, days and years teaching our children to be obedient and to follow the rules. Now we are going to teach them to speak up for themselves and speak back to those in authority who ask them to do something they feel uncomfortable with. These are valuable life skills and will stand them in good stead for situations that may come up in relationships, school and careers.
Family Councils That Work
Home and Family • Published: May 23, 2006
A family meeting or council is a regularly scheduled gathering of all family members. Its purpose is to make plans and decisions, set goals as a family, provide encouragement and have fun together. Wise parents use this time for modeling and teaching communication, inter-personal, and life skills that will enable all members of the family to succeed in endeavors outside the family unit. This article explains what a family council is and is not while offering helpful guidelines for running them.
Help Kids Make Friends - What Can Parents Do to Guide the Social Development of Children?
Home and Family: Parenting • Published: November 20, 2005
Making friends is a skill, just like playing the piano or riding a bike. Skills can be learned and behaviors can be changed. While it may require more effort for some people to be comfortable in groups, it can be learned, especially if the child is willing to put forth the effort and knows that she has your support.
Anticipatory Grief and Ongoing Sadness for Caregivers
Self Improvement: Grief Loss • Published: September 7, 2005
At one time the diagnosis of cancer, AIDS or COPD was a death sentence. Advances in medicine and treatment now sometimes place patients with these diseases in a chronic rather than acute condition, leaving the caregiver with a sense of on-going sadness, or "anticipatory grief." Anticipation in this context refers to the anticipation of an event in the future. Barring a miracle, the caregiver has a sure knowledge that death will occur in our loved one sooner rather than later. In anticipation of eventual death, the caregiver changes her focus from the hopes of a miracle cure to ensuring comfort and quality at life's end.
