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Blissful Innocence

By Alan Cohen
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Children & Youth
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs
  • Support Groups
  • Wellness

There are always possibilities in doing things we put our minds to regardless of the limits put forth by society.

Talking To Children About Going To War – A National Center for PTSD Fact Sheet

By Ilona Pivar, Ph.D.
  • Children & Youth
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Wellness

Families of deployed military personnel face talking to their children about why they have to leave, where they are going, what they are going to do, risks associated with their assignment and how long they will be away. This article provides some tips.

Children with AD/HD and Their Families

By Marissa Lewis
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Children & Youth
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Homecare - Home Health Care
  • Long Term Care

This article gives insight into the symptoms of AD/HD, the stress it can impose on families who have children with AD/HD and some program considerations for these families.

A real-life story: ‘if you have to, you can do anything. You truly can.’

By Guest Author
  • Children & Youth
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs

‘If anyone had told me that by the age of 30 I’d have survived 2 abusive marriages, mothered 5 children abandoned to raise them alone, had a child with an incurable heart disease, raised another child from birth for 4.5 years before I lost her..’

AND THE BEAT GOES ON!

By Dr. Gema Hernández
  • Aging
  • Children & Youth
  • Community Services
  • Eldercare
  • Financial, Insurance, Legal Matters
  • Legislation and Advocacy

The author proposes that necessary action be taken to correct the lack of accountability and proper fiscal controls with the Medicaid system. Medicaid fraud has negatively affected the lives of Floridians living in rural and metropolitan areas.

Lend A Hand

By Ridgely Goldsborough
  • Children & Youth
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs
  • Wellness

A teacher turned student learns a powerful lesson from his four year-old son.

Through the Journaling Process

By Katherine Dorn Zotovich
  • Care for the Caregiver - Nurturing
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Children & Youth
  • Death and Dying
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues

Article address the true need for teenagers and children to be able to grieve the illness or death of a loved one in a healthy productive way…it encourages healing through journaling, for all concerned.

From Autism to Recovery

By Raun Kaufman
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Children & Youth
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions

Autism is now he third most prevalent developmental disorder in the world – and climbing.

Will I Ever Stop Hurting? A Parent’s Grief

By National Funeral Directors Association
  • Caregiver Issues
  • Children & Youth
  • Death and Dying
  • Grief and Bereavement

Most of us expect to bury our parents someday. We can accept that they will grow old and die-that is nature’s way. But we do not expect to bury our children.

Grandparenting & Social Security

By Gail Mitchell
  • Children & Youth
  • Financial, Insurance, Legal Matters
  • Grandparenting

Who qualifies for SSI when grandparenting grandchildren and what type of benefits are available.

Fall of Memories

By Sandy Goodman
  • Aging
  • Caregivers: Experiences & Ideas
  • Children & Youth
  • Death and Dying
  • Diseases - Illnesses - Conditions
  • Grief and Bereavement
  • Mental Health - Emotional - Issues

After six years of losing her loved one, pain, fear, and love all persist in the daily life of the survivor. This compelling story of loss explores the importance of lasting memories.

Grandparents And Religious Differences: When Your Grandchild Is Not Being Raised In Your Religion

By Dr. Arthur Kornhaber
  • Children & Youth
  • Grandparenting
  • Spirituality - Religion - Beliefs

With the significant increase in interfaith marriages, many grandparents are anguishing because their grandchildren are being raised with religious beliefs different from their own, or no religion at all.

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