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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For many mothers, Mother’s Day is a day to be endured and survived, not celebrated. I learned this on Mother’s Day 2006. Our first born son had been stillborn and we’d buried him less than a month before. I remember going to church that day and noticing that a baby baptism ceremony had been planned [...]
Tags: military, miscarriage, Mother, mother's day, single mom, stillbirth
Posted in: Holidays
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My husband will soon be moving to another country for a year as a result of a military assignment. He’s gone away before, but the longest he had ever been gone was for six months. A year is a long time to be gone, so essentially I get to be a single mom for the [...]
Tags: divorce, military, preparation, separation, single parent
Posted in: Parenting
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As a former military wife, I learned to deal with the fact that my husband was away from home quite frequently. After he retired, I somewhat expected him to get a local job and for him to be home more often. He was hired by a contractor and travels frequently out of state [...]
Tags: career, civilian, jobs, loss, military, photos, transition, Travel
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