By Teri L. Bourdeau — 2013
Learn how to cope, manage your emotions and keep stress in check when a child is diagnosed with chronic illness.
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CLEAR ALL
Maintaining your authority is important to your child’s well-being—and it’s important for your own emotional health too.
With kids spending more and more time on screens, parents worry that they are getting hooked
But despite the challenges, kids raised by one or more disabled parents often benefit immensely from the experience.
With each diagnosis, knowing her life hung in the balance, she was “stunned, then anguished” and astonished by “how much energy it takes to get from the bad news to actually starting on the return path to health.”
Supportiv’s new Caregiver collection of articles seeks to meet caregivers where they are, providing tools to create emotional change for the better, either within themselves, or together with the person for whom they’re caring.
Whether you become a caregiver gradually or all of sudden due to a crisis, or whether you are a caregiver willingly or by default, many emotions surface when you take on the job of caregiving.
The National Alliance for Caregiving is pleased to present Circle of Care: A Guidebook for Mental Health Caregivers.
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Injuries, while hopefully infrequent, are often an unavoidable part of sport participation. While most injuries can be managed with little to no disruption in sport participation and other activities of daily living, some impose a substantial physical and mental burden.
When the scariest parenting moment happened, I didn’t know where to turn. After months of talking with experts, we’re on the path to healing.
“I just didn’t want them to stress and not be afraid to go to school. The less they knew, the better it was.”