Questions tagged [coping]
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Balancing children's needs with a parent's own needs
For me, as a new parent I found it difficult to find a balance between meeting the needs of my son and my own needs. I was inclined to view my own needs as being selfish and an inadequacy within me ...
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How do you cope in the first few months?
How do you cope with the sleeplessness, the stress, the fear in the first few months?
Our baby just came home yesterday. He was five weeks premature, so he was in the NICU for two weeks. The stress ...
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How do I explain to a 4 year old that our family pet is sick and needs to be put down?
My son loves our 9 year old cat very much. The cat was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer a couple of months ago, and has reached the point where we will soon need to make arrangements to put the ...
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How to help a 9-year-old boy learn to handle losing at games/sports?
Our 9-year-old son can really go ballistic upon losing at games — tears of rage, calling family members liars and/or cheats, etc. very intense. As far as we know, he doesn't really do this with his ...
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How to help children cope with a parent's suicide?
I've asked another question here:
How to handle disclosing a parent's suicide to friends and their parents
I've noticed that this question here:
What are some strategies for helping children ...
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How can I help my 14-year-old daughter be less angry?
My daughter is 14. She is usually very good and not hard to cope with, but sometimes she gets very angry.
For example, when I take away her phone, or her sisters use her belongings, or she can't do ...
