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Experts Offer Tips on Parenting Children with Health Problems
Jul 16, 2007 --

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Experts Offer Tips on Parenting Children with Health Problems
 
Parenting is tough at times for just about every parent. But the situation gets even more difficult when a child has a serious health problem. What do you say to a child who struggles with weight problems, diabetes or cancer? What do you do when parenting is truly a matter of life and death?
 
Parents must navigate a complex maze of medical information and cope with children who may be resistant, confused, or frightened. There are many difficult-to-answer questions that the child may ask: “Will my disease kill me?” or “Will it hurt when I do my treatments?” Unprepared parents may find themselves at a complete loss. Help is on the way.
 
Foster Cline, MD and Lisa Greene offer many practical strategies and tactics for parents to use when dealing with such challenging questions. Among the many special techniques that they suggest parents use when dealing with difficult issues or chronic medical conditions are the following:
 
1. Before you give answers, ask yourself: whose needs are you addressing - yours or your child’s?
 
2. Consider whether you are giving more information than the child wants or needs to hear.
 
3. Be open to your children talking with you about anything and everything.
 
4. When you are not sure how to give the answer, ask more questions.
 
5. Recognize that sometimes your child is trying to “protect” you.
 
6. Show acceptance even when you can’t show approval.
 
7. Every answer dealing with life-and-death issues should leave room for hope.
 
Foster Cline, M.D., is a well-known child psychiatrist and co-founder of the popular parent training company Love and Logic, Inc. Lisa Greene is a San Francisco Bay area mother of two children with cystic fibrosis. They have teamed up to write a new book which provides parents with immediately applicable responses to these difficult questions and more. See www.ParentingChildrenWithHealthIssues.com for more information, articles and resources.
 
Parenting Children with Health Issues will be available June 2007 for $24.95 at retail booksellers and directly from the publisher at www.loveandlogic.com or 1-800-338-4065.
 
Summary:
 
WHO: Foster Cline, M.D. co-founder of the popular parent training company Love and Logic, Inc. and Lisa Greene, a mother of two children with cystic fibrosis.
 
WHAT: New Book Release
 
WHEN: June 2007
 
WHERE: Retail Bookstores, www.amazon.com, www.loveandlogic.com
 
For more information, contact Love and Logic at 800-338-4065.

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