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How to Help Your Preschooler Handle Emotions and Avoid Outbursts

By Leslie Garisto Pfaff — 2020

Prevent over-the-top outbursts by helping your child learn better ways to handle stressful situations.

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Coping and Self-Care When Your Child Is in the Hospital

When your child is sick in the hospital, it can feel like you’ve entered an alternative universe. That heartache hit me like a tidal wave while caring for my desperately ill son in two children’s hospitals for eight months straight in 2015.

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What Parents Can Do to Make a Child’s Chronic Illness Easier

When a child’s wellbeing depends on vigilant monitoring and consistent medical attention, the everyday anxiety and stress that all parents deal with is made worse by the fact that failing to keep up with treatment can be a matter of life and death.

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How Dads Can Cope When a Child Is Sick

Fathers of chronically ill children can face certain emotional challenges. Why it’s important to acknowledge them.

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Helping Your Child Cope with a Chronically Ill Parent

In 1990, my mother wrote an article for the Journal of Contemporary Dialysis and Nephrology [1] instructing parents with chronic illness on how to help their children cope.

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Caring for a Seriously Ill Child

Taking care of a chronically ill child is one of the most draining and difficult tasks a parent can face. Beyond handling physical challenges and medical needs, you’ll have to deal with your child’s emotional needs and the impact that a prolonged illness can have on the entire family.

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How to Help a Child with Chronic Illness: Tips from a Child Life Specialist

Child life specialists help families cope in a healthcare environment, and parents can look to them to learn how to help sick kids.

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Living with a Chronic Illness or Disability

Our child has a chronic illness or disability. How can we help him learn to live as best as he can with his condition?

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When Your Child Is Diagnosed with Chronic Illness

Learn how to cope, manage your emotions and keep stress in check when a child is diagnosed with chronic illness.

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Nothing Good Can Ever Come from Weighing Your Child

Why the scale won’t help your child reach a healthy weight.

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Dr. Dan Siegel: What Hearing “Yes” Does to Your Child’s Brain

It's not about permissive parenting. It's about using "yes" to find ways to relate, which encourages kids to explore and be resilient, instead of starting at "no," which shuts them down.

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Helping Children Deal with Emotions