We’ve been visiting a child psychologist for the past few months in an attempt to help my young son cope with his father going away on military assignment, so I’m learning a lot about the best ways to ask for compliance from him.
I’ll pause while everyone chuckles over the idea of trying to get consistent compliance [...]
Tags: 5 second rule, adjustment, boundaries, compliance, discipline, military, Military Families, military kids, psychologist, requests
Posted in: Parenting
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For the record, I am a military wife and my husband is set to deploy to Iraq in two months. He leaves today actually, for some additional training and briefing. We have a two-year old daughter.
A recent study reveals that children of U.S. Veterans who have been deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq are showing elevated [...]
Tags: Afghanista, anxiety, army, Iraq, military, Military Families
Posted in: Current Events, Parenting
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I think this mother is amazing.
Ginger Bohl is an active duty military doctor deployed in Afghanistan. Every day she pumps and freezes her breastmilk, and ships it back to her 11-month-old son, Silas in the US. The milk is packed in a cooler and arrives in about three days.
Ginger recognizes she is very lucky to [...]
Tags: Breastfeeding, Military Families, military moms
Posted in: Breastfeeding
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Nothing can ever be more painful than losing loved ones. Properties can be re-accumulated, careers re-established, but family members will forever be irreplaceable… and parents losing children inconsolable.
But times of pain have a way of bringing out the best in people. The circle of life continues and those that are left behind find themselves with [...]
Tags: Honor, Military Families, President Bush
Posted in: Current Events, News
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