It’s Thanksgiving morning, 2007, and before I start wailing about what isn’t right in my life, I think I should give thanks for what is right. First of all, of course, would be my husband, children and their children, without whom life would be empty for me. I often think how sad it would be, to be alone in this world. Then I thought back to the days when my children were finally giving me some long-awaited grandchildren. That, I hoped, guaranteed I’d have little ones around …
Beginning Your Memoir Despite Family Guilt and Critic Voices
When we write memoir, we reclaim our own voice, we stake a claim to our version of the story. Every family has multiple story lines. There is the official version, controlled by the most powerful people in the family, usually the parents or those who have the most to lose. The lesser points of viewmost often held by the children or those lesser in powerare often not believed or accepted as true.
Weaving the Brokenness – Healing the Wound of Mother Abandonment
My story is only one such story about this topicmother-child abandonment. There are many thousands of such stories in the world, people who were abandoned as children. On my book tour for Dont Call Me MotherBreaking the Chain of Mother-Daughter Abandonment, people listen with tears in their eyes as I read about the loss and loneliness that I felt as a child, and they cheer me on as I read how I fought to find myself and create a better life.
Ghost Mothers
Mothers who are neglectful, selfish, and abandoning do not set out to do these things, they are a result of her own problems, her own pain, and maybe even mental illness. It is hard for us as her child to see this fully, or to forgive it.
Connecting the Past and the Present: Healing Abandonment and Abuse through Awareness
For people who have been abandoned, either literally by actual physical absence, or emotionallya parent can be in the home and not there for usthe abandoned child syndrome may remain years later, showing up through insecurities and fears, clinging behaviors or its oppositewalls to intimacy.
Abandoned AgainHow We Repeat Our Childhood in the Present
You can change these old patterns. It takes time, awareness, determination, and work on your part, but it can be done.
How to help stop repeating abandonment and abuse in your life now.
Eco And Organic Schools
To reduce climate change we need both adults and children to become greener and to think more about the environment. The question is how do we engage children and pull them away from the TV and Play station and promote a sense of citizenship and environmental responsibility in them?
Talking About Strangers
A parents worst nightmare: your child goes missing. No one saw anything, no one knows what happened. One minute your child is there, then theyre gone. How can you prevent this from happening? There are approximately 2,100 reports of missing children filed every day. As alarming as that sounds, the majority of children make it through their childhood safely.
My husband and I talk to our son all the time about strangers. When he started talking and interacting with others, …
The keys to raising happy kids that Super Nanny doesn’t tell you
Television programs like Super Nanny and Nanny 911 have captured public interest lately. These programs offer much in terms of helping parents manage their children’s behaviour but there are many aspects of parenting that you need to consider if you watch these programs. Following are the keys to raising happy kids that Super Nanny doesn’t tell you.
The secrets to improving kids’ behaviour
Effective parents have a range of strategies to improve their children’s behaviour, whether it be eradicating annoying behaviours or dealing with strong-willed kids. This article shows you the best question to ask yourself when children misbehave and gives rock-solid principles guaranteed to help you improve your children’s less than perfect behaviours.
Why first borns fuss, seconds are resilient and youngests like to laugh
Why are my children so different? The answer to this conundrum lies in children’s birth order. Each position in a family leaves its own stamp on children, which stays for life.
Understand children’s birth order personalities and you will have the key to raising them effectively. Its easy once you know the rules of birth order.
Meet the Twixters!
If you think of parenting as a childhood to the end of school experience think again. There is a new group on the radar who need special parenting – those young people in the 18-24 year age group. They are not settling down nor are they financially independent, so it is parents whom they turn to for emotional and financial support.