Supported by research and clinical insight, this book offers specific strategies to help children achieve healthy separation, while respectfully acknowledging
the emotional lives of children and the need for parents to take care of themselves.
At the heart of these projects are
the emotional lives of children and the emotional communication between parents and their children.
We must be prepared to invest in the spiritual, intellectual, and
emotional lives of our children, as have Chinese Indonesian Christians, who benefit from the dual heritage of Christian faith and Confucian morality.
In the midst of the chaos and insecurity is the crowning tragedy of what is happening in
the emotional life of the children.
Our school fosters the intellect, nurtures the imagination, and recognizes
the emotional life of each child.
Through play, play therapists tap into
the emotional life of the child by activating the same regions of the brain.
Not exact matches
P&G: Pick Them Back Up — Continuing to tug on our
emotional heartstrings by emphasizing the influence
of «mom» in all
of our
lives, the spot clearly romances mom by letting her know how important her role is in her
children's
lives.
In the same way a mother can fall into a depression when ending
of a intensely
emotional, highly personal
child - bearing experience, a founder can experience immense despair when her company is no longer a vital part
of her everyday
life.
The need for adequate legal aid is very compelling in situations where a woman is attempting to leave an abusive relationship, and her
life and her physical and
emotional security are at risk, as is the safety
of her
children.
Such a
child is also likely to experience serious problems
of social and
emotional adjustment, for he senses that in his language deficiency the very foundations for his participation in the
life of relation — and hence for having any
life worth
living — are threatened.
I have deliberately left out
of the discussion such topics as ethics and the Christian family — although I have talked about responsibility, both for one's own adult behavior and for helping one's
children develop the essential
emotional equipment with which to face
life.
Then, the
child develops
emotional, behavioral, and learning disabilities that haunt them for the rest
of their
lives.
I think you are a punk and a fool and a bully, and that you care more for fetuses than for the real
living women and the real
living children who
live with the consequences
of poverty and violence every day, because too many kids are being born to people who don't have the
emotional or financial resources to do the job right.
Would it not embark on a comprehensive program
of parent education as a central focus
of its work, making the discoveries
of the psychologists concerning the
emotional hungers
of children, from the very dawn
of life on, easily available to all its parents?
The most cogent psychoanalytic explanation
of alcoholism indicates that the
emotional damage involved probably occurred in the very early
life of the person — during the period when the
child's primary way
of relating to the outside world is oral.
Having spent many days at
Children's Hospital
of Philadelphia — I could only imagine how
emotional and tearful it is for families
living that horrible reality.
Noah's Ark
Children's Hospice provides clinical, emotional and practical care and support to children and young people with life - limiting and life - threatening conditions, with a central aim of enabling them to live life as fully as possible, regardless of cognitive or sensory
Children's Hospice provides clinical,
emotional and practical care and support to
children and young people with life - limiting and life - threatening conditions, with a central aim of enabling them to live life as fully as possible, regardless of cognitive or sensory
children and young people with
life - limiting and
life - threatening conditions, with a central aim
of enabling them to
live life as fully as possible, regardless
of cognitive or sensory ability.
This means being able to tune in to the
emotional and academic
lives of our
children.
and also with later satisfactory partnerships in adult
life Good father -
child relations are associated with an absence
of emotional and behavioural difficulties in adolescence and greater academic motivation.
The focus
of this model is on healthy social, physical, and
emotional development and the integration
of athletics with a
child's
life (rather than the other way around).
The neurological infrastructure is being formed that will support all
of a
child's future capacities, including not only her intellectual abilities — how to decipher and calculate and compare and infer — but also those
emotional and psychological habits and abilities and mindsets that will enable her to negotiate
life inside and outside school.
A relatively small change in caregiver behavior made a big difference in the
lives of the
children and in the
emotional climate
of the orphanage.
The
child's development
of an
emotional attachment to a primary caregiver in the first six years
of life is very important.
The lesson
of Okinawa is the lesson
of consent, the lesson that indicates that if a
child is well - mothered and well - guided by both parents, then the
child given the best
of all possible starts in
life and seems well on his way to
emotional stability.
Feldman postulated that this is likely internalized by the baby as an «
emotional sense
of security that accompanies the
child throughout
life.»
An empty
emotional bucket can not help fill the bucket
of another, especially a
child who is feeling the effects
of a divorce in his or her own
life.
It is understandable that enthusiasts wish to offer
children the same benefits in hopes
of preventing poor mental and
emotional habits from developing later and perhaps optimizing well being over their
lives.
A study from the London School
of Economics draws the conclusion that «The most important childhood predictor
of adult
life - satisfaction is the
child's
emotional health....
The
emotional consequences
of stress from colic alone have lasting effects on the
child's development and
life dissatisfaction
of the family years later according to a Finnish Family Competence Study Project by researchers at the University
of Turku.
There will always be a temptation to return to it when
life is hard, and your
child will also be more vulnerable to other addictions — even non-chemical addictions, such as gambling, which can have the same sort
of emotional appeal.
Regnerus (the same sociologist behind a controversial study
of how
children of same - sex couples fare) says cheap sex — sex with little cost as far as time or
emotional investment — is behind a host
of societal ills, from fewer people marrying to the rise
of unmarriageable men to more people
living together to more
children being born outside
of marriage — you get the idea.
Most obviously, the needs
of very young fathers are substantially different from those
of older young fathers (Kiselika, 2008, p. 132); and they tend to be most socially disadvantaged to start with, are less likely to be
living with their
children's mothers, and are more likely to be involved in criminality and substance misuse and to suffer anxiety, depression and
emotional volatility (Kiselika, 1995).
The other thing I want you to know is about a very disturbing statistic, that
children who
live in a home with a non-biologically related male - your boyfriend, a stepfather, a stepbrother, have 11 times the risk
of sexual, physical or
emotional abuse.
Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development Social practices and cultural beliefs
of modern
life are preventing healthy brain and
emotional development in
children.
«From educational achievement to
emotional development and healthy self esteem, the contribution that dads make to the
life and the development
of children is unique and enduring, and Parentchannel.tv's National Dads Matter Week is a great way to recognise this.
It's so important to find like - minded parents who can offer their «been there, done that» stories,
emotional scaffolding, and specific suggestions for when you feel confused as to what to do about your
child's behavior, or when you question whether this new thing you're trying, like positive discipline instead
of spanking, for example, is going to work out in the long term, or how exactly to keep those family attachment bonds strong as your
children grow, or how to move forward when your family encounters challenging
life circumstances.
But it also gave them, sort
of, an
emotional sense that they matter, that they actually could be good parents, that they could make a real difference in the
life of their
child.
With five years
of clinical experience and nearly ten years
of experience supporting individuals with developmental disabilities
of all ages, Melanie offers a unique approach to addressing difficult behaviors, as well as the physical,
emotional, and sensory regulation challenges that are often a big part
of a
child's
life.
Given the critical nature early relationships, it is imperative that all care givers and professionals touching the
lives of young
children have the knowledge and skills to promote healthy early development, including social -
emotional development or infant mental health.
Together, they are embarking on a mission to provide
children in impoverished regions
of the country with opportunities and resources to integrate purposeful play into their everyday
lives; a factor proven critical in
children's
emotional, physical and cognitive development and future growth.
Children have
emotional and behavioral difficulties for a variety
of reasons, sometimes related to parenting deficits, but often related to personality characteristics and
life experiences.
Children who are
living with food insecurity during the first five years
of their
lives are more likely to lag behind in social,
emotional, and cognitive development once they start kindergarten.
It talks about traditional foods as the tools with which to bring our
children back from a
life slated toward disease and illness and into robust health where they can be free
of weight issues, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, dental problems, mental and
emotional disorders like depression, ADD, ADHD, and other related (even autism).
Secure attachment forms when a
child's physical and
emotional needs are consistently met during the first 2 years
of life.
What a securely attached
child - OR ADULT - looks like: competent, self - confident, resilient, cheerful much
of the time, anticipating people's needs (not from a co-dependent place), empathic, humorous, playful, tries harder in the face
of adversity; not vulnerable to approach by strangers because won't go to strangers (as adult, out - going without being foolhardy), good self - esteem, achieving, able to use all mental, physical,
emotional resources fully, responsive, affectionate, able to make deep commitments as appropriate, able to be self - disclosing as appropriate, able to be available emotionally as appropriate, able to interact well with others at school and in jobs / careers, likely to be more physically healthy throughout
life, self - responsible, giving from a «good heart» place
of compassion, has true autonomy, no co-dependent self, because
of well developed internal modulation system, less likely to turn to external «devices» (addictions) to modulate affect
Many studies suggest that
children raised in a two - parent family have a higher standard
of living and fewer behavioral and
emotional problems.
Through this webinar from PBS's This
Emotional Life — featuring Daniel J. Siegel, MD,
of the Mindsight Institute, moderated by Kathryn Power, M.Ed,
of SAMSHA — we learn how the quality
of parent -
child attachment impacts your
child's:
From this point, they can begin talking about what that really looks like for their
child in this stage
of life, and that discussion allows for the
child's
emotional needs to be considered alongside their financial and physical needs.
I went back through several books I'd recently read: Kohn's Unconditional Parenting, Lieberman's
Emotional Life of the Toddler, Cohen's Playful Parenting, and half
of Aldort's Raising Our
Children, Raising Ourselves (I'm still finishing that one), and asked for the collective wisdom
of my seasoned mama friends.
We meet
children, adolescents, teens and their families at the most challenging times
of their
lives and help them overcome some
of life's most difficult circumstances:
child abuse and neglect, complex
emotional and behavioral issues, and family crisis.