Especially helpful for parents of children who get upset talking about their feelings or when parent or
child is at a loss when dealing with strong emotions.
Not exact matches
I thought about the
loss that my
child had suffered without even knowing it of going from thinking she
was at five, or four
at the time, a Fortune Most Powerful Woman, to asking me what a bimbo
is.
It doesn't matter how careful you
are, actions from other people such as your
children, neighbours or visitors can cause you a damage that may cause you a financial
loss at the end.
If that
child were to die, then
at that point the idea of karma might
be introduced to try to ease the sense of
loss, just as someone in the West might say «the
child was spared further suffering».
He
was basically of liberal persuasion, but as a
child of the prosperous postwar era he
was at a
loss concerning Humphrey's argument.
While we realize that there
are gains and
losses to parenting even in the best situations, we also know that those who help their
children value and develop spirituality
at an early age provide them with resources for a productive future.
I
was helping students start exciting new lives
at college even as their parents
were, in a sense, mourning the
loss of their
children to adulthood, and as I
was more and more coming to realize that we all
were going to mourn the
loss of Susan.
The biblical Job
was comforted for the
loss of his wife and
children when he
was doubly blessed
at the end of the book, the Guest allows, «but I doubt whether a living man would accept such consolation.»
When we
were trying to figure out who in the world would come to the frozen depths of North Dakota last winter to watch our daughter while The Professor and I drove the slick highway one hour east to Fargo to deliver our next
child we
were really
at a
loss.
I
'm at a
loss for words right now, next to the birth of my
children this
is the happiest day of my life!!
Which means that when
children arrive in kindergarten without these foundational skills, there
are often few resources in place to help kids develop them, and school administrators
are often
at a
loss to know how to help.
Both kids (and despite the legal distinction that they
are of majority age, they
are still kids
at that age, especially considering that both have
been traumatized by the
loss of their sister a few years ago) felt abandoned, and have had barely any contact with their mother in the five months that she
's been gone (their mother has initiated no contact with our
children, one of whom still lives with me and commutes to college, while the other
is a college freshman, but who comes here during vacations).
But what I have noticed on numerous occasions in my practice
is that the intensity of the college application process distracts family members from confronting the ultimate issue that
is facing them
at this juncture in their evolution — the feelings of
loss and grief that accompany the departure of a
child.
I
am not licensed, certified or have any type of authority on the matter but I believe that postpartum depression should
be looked
at in a different light when you give birth to a
child after
loss.
If you've watched your
child and know that what you
're taking away really does impact them, don't worry about whether or not they seem suitably upset
at the
loss of it.
First Signs My
Child was «Different» Once I
was able to stop worrying about problems like developmental delays and hearing
loss, I found myself puzzled and amazed by what my son could do, reading his first word, for example,
at just a little over 2 years of age.
Right now I
am currently 31 weeks pregnant with my baby after the
loss of my first, and only
child,
at 40 weeks pregnant with my beautiful daughter.
May 7: Grieving On Mother's Day Another look
at Mother's Day and
loss by adoptive mother Kerstin Lindquist, who reminds readers that sometimes the best gift you can give a woman who has lost a
child is permission to grieve.
Nowhere near as big a thing, but I missed both of my
children's first tooth
loss; my eldest
was at school when it happened, and my second lost her first tooth while my husband and I
were out celebrating my birthday.
When their «orphanage friends»
are adopted, they see them disappear forever (causing further
loss for the
child who remains
at the orphanage.)
Because
children begin to bond with their birth mother while still in the womb, even
children who
are adopted
at birth may
be traumatized by the
loss of the birthmother and go on to develop symptoms of RAD.
Even a
child who
was abandoned
at birth who subsequently received good care could experience the
loss of it
's birthmother as traumatic.
Even if my pleas to erase all aspects of punishment from how we understand «discipline» for our
children, including avoiding the imposition of
losses in emotional safety like what
is caused by a timeout, take a little longer for the broader culture to understand, can we
at least start with an understanding that we need to stop hitting the
children?
Should you wish to submit your experiences as a same sex couple that has sadly
been affected by baby or
child loss to
be included, please feel free to email me
at [email protected].
But that «gain» of sleeping through the night
is accomplished
at the «
loss» of trust, and the long - term consequences of a
child giving up on her parents simply aren't worth it.
When tragedy strikes a school community — whether it
's a death
at your
child's school or a
loss of life so horrific that it affects us all, like the shootings
at Newtown, Connecticut — the prospect of sending kids back to school can
be daunting.
You may
be at a
loss as to how to explain it, so looking for books and shows that tell it in a
child friendly manner can
be your best bet.
If your
child has
been diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) you may
be at a
loss as to where to begin.
You
're at a
loss over what to do to help your
child.
If a parent takes a close look
at difficult interactions with their
children, my own experience
is that underneath much of it lies ungrieved
loss in some form or another.
Yet, as parents, many of us
are at a
loss as to how to support our
children's STEM learning, especially if we think we lack those crucial skills ourselves.
Food
is never a socially or emotionally neutral subject, so it makes sense that parents would
be so defeated and
at a
loss when their
child is a picky eater.
Reading this sentence alone could
be unremarkable for some, but it could
be loaded for those who
are trying to conceive, those who have experienced pregnancy / infant /
child loss, or anyone
at any point in his or her own parenthood journey for any number of reasons.
Never had I felt such a strange mix of emotions — I
was elated to know that
at least one of my
children was alive but I
was so very scared that I
was going to experience another
loss.
Children with hearing
loss are typically diagnosed
at birth or soon thereafter.
The time change can wreak havoc
at bedtimes as
children adjust to the new mood lighting caused by the
loss of an hour (imagine
being used to a 7 pm bedtime and now it
's been moved to what your body feels
is 6 pm!).
You may
be surprised
at how many people you know who have suffered miscarriages, stillbirth or the
loss of an infant
child.
If your
child regularly goes to bed late and wakes up early (as many adults do), then he
's probably not getting enough sleep or
is compensating for the
loss by falling asleep in the car,
at meals, or wherever he can.
You
are a committed to helping your
child along their pottying journey but either you
're not sure how to start, you've hit a roadbump, or you
're at a
loss of how to finish things up.
We help parents — mostly mamas, just like you — who
are feeling
at a
loss of where to start, overwhelmed and / or discouraged on their pottying journey to gain the confidence, know - how and support needed in order to get their
child out of diapers.
Though taking care of a newborn can
be one of the most special and fulfilling encounters of your life, you may feel
at a
loss for what to do and will need to provide your
child constant attention and care.
To make it worse, due to my significant hearing
loss I can't hear any
child in the third row of my van so I can frequently
be found lip - reading in the rear view mirror while driving, trying to decipher whatever Urgent Need
is at hand.
There
are online groups and other courageous PAL moms
at PALS waiting to connect during your journey through parenting your subsequent
child after
loss too including PALS — Parenting After Pregnancy or Infant Loss Support Gr
loss too including PALS — Parenting After Pregnancy or Infant
Loss Support Gr
Loss Support Group.
As if having a medically fragile
child were not enough stress, my husband and I
were at a
loss of how we would pay such staggering bills.
Our thoughts
are with his
children at this time of sadness especially so soon after the
loss of their mother.
[52] Cable
was praised during his tenure for his performances
at Prime minister's questions over the Northern Rock crisis, HMRC's
loss of
child benefit data, and the 2007 Labour party donation scandal.
«If our
losses today
are part payment for every
child who does a little better in school, every gay couple who know their love
is worth no less than anyone else's, then I hope
at least our
losses can
be endured with a little selfless dignity.
A new report by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine
at the University of Pennsylvania found that
loss - of - function mutations to Filaggrin - 2 (FLG2), a gene that creates a protein responsible for retaining moisture and protecting the skin from environmental irritants,
were associated with atopic dermatitis in African American
children.
Because there
was only one other published case report about a
child with M. velutinosus — a 1 - year - old with brain cancer who had undergone a bone marrow transplant — Kumar notes that he and colleagues
were at a
loss as to how best to treat their patient.
«We knew there
were nutritional difficulties in teens who had undergone bariatric surgery, but everyone thought it
was primarily the surgery that caused these problems since gastric bypass excludes the portion of the small intestine where many nutrients, especially iron,
are most absorbed,» says Stavra Xanthakos, MD, medical director the Surgical Weight
Loss Program for Teens
at Cincinnati
Children's and a co-author of the study.