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eParenting and Parenting in the 21st Century
eParenting used to mean keeping your kids safe on the Internet, however now it has a wider scope including parenting with the use of technology, and distance parenting. Curated by Peter Mellow |
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Must grief for the climate diminish you, or can it do the opposite?
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A bereavement counsellor explains how to cope with the loss of a parent.
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People often ask us how to cope with grief during the holiday season and especially how to help children. Here is some advice we give.
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There are three things I know I didn’t tell Dad enough before I accepted that he wasn’t getting better: I love you. I’m proud of you. I’m always thinking about you.
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Two years after his 13-year-old child died needlessly in hospital, a father reflects on life without her
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How cigarette smoke – something I’d always been repelled by – finally unlocked my headful of roiling emotions a month after my beloved father died
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Children and the adults they become need to choose how they grieve. That may include sharing their experiences and getting angry.
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Grief isn’t like an illness you get over, or an incident that you move on from. It is part of you, like your lost child was
Grief is love that never leaves
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When Chloe Hooper’s partner was diagnosed with leukaemia, she struggled to talk about the possibility of his death with their two young children. She found the words in books.
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It’s important to give kids time to process information – and reassure them they’re safe and cared for
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Even if children are less vulnerable to the coronavirus, they don’t suffer any less from the loss it causes.
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When it comes to grief, people speak of time as the great healer. But it is also frightening for it puts a distance between the living and the dead
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“In almost every one of my father’s letters, he tells me how much he loves me. I took those words for granted. Now the same words seem neon-lit.”
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John Travolta has been candid concerning how he talked to his young son about his wife Kelly Preston's death.
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When terminally ill teenager Rhys Habermann delivered his final message to the world on a hot January night four years ago, his aim was to protect his parents from the risk of prosecution. They are now fighting to spare others the same anguish.
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Anna Zaltron is the first South Australian to have a digital memorial added to the headstone of her late son Anthony.
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Our children’s pain often hurts us more than our own. The coronavirus pandemic has ushered in a panoply of circumstances about which we might feel sad and scared, not just for ourselves, but also for our children.
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I can't stop thinking about how much he suffered—and my own inability to save him.
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Parents are facing difficult moments as children confront the death of a loved one, something they may not fully understand.
We are all grieving in some ways. Many obviously for the illness and even deaths of family and friends. But also we have new lives that are stifled and less free. We can't help but be anxious. Our kids are feeling the same. Not only do they pick up our emotions, they have their own to try to navigate without the power to do so. They miss friends, they miss playtime, they miss schedules and a feeling of safety. And they are also possibly facing the death of someone they know or love for the first time.
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The era of 24-hour news brings traumatic events directly into everyone's lives. Here's how that can affect people, especially children, and some strategies for coping.
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Four months on from the death of his son, Warwick McFadyen writes of the currents now washing through life.
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Most kids bounce back quickly after a disaster and there are several strategies you can use to help.
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Social media lets teenagers feel truly connected to celebrities, so the death of a favorite rapper like Juice WRLD can hit them like a personal loss.
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'My wife and daughter, we three, riding a sea of tears and memory. These are but the early days of grief, I know, a life of loss is stretching forever.'
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Nearly 1,800 children die of the disease. Twenty percent of mothers and 35 percent of fathers reported PTSD symptoms five years later.