4 Ways To React To Teen’s Misinformation
Has your teen ever come home and say to you, “The WHOLE class is going to be at the party on Friday night! Why can’t I go?” Or, “ALL my friends are getting tattooed! If I don’t get one they’ll think that I’m weird?” Your “gut feeling” is that it can’t be true (how can parents allow 14 year old children to go to an all night party?) but you want to trust your child and you certainly don’t want them to feel “out”. In this article I will present to you 4 ways to react to what they tell you.
Care For Elderly Parents - 3 Ways to Prepare the Family
Let’s face it, as much as we want to take care of elderly parents and bring them into our homes to help them, it is not an easy task. Not only is it tough on the adult child but it is all difficult for the whole family. This being so, before your “permanent guests”, grandpa/grandma move in you should prepare the whole family, young and old for their arrival. In this article I will discuss some of the things that should be discussed with your children so the taking care of the elderly parent (grandparent) will go smoothly.
Care For Elderly Parents - 3 Preliminary Preparations to Make Before They Move In
To take care of elderly parents is something that most people view as admirable and proper. After all your parents stood by you and held your hand when you had mumps, measles and chicken pox. They also helped you through grammer school, junior high, and high school . It is not less than common courtesy to give back and to take care of elderly parents for all that they have done for you.
Replay: “Aging Parents: 9 Ways To Understand Their Atypical Behavior”
One of the difficulties of taking care of your aging parents is that often times they act much differently than the way that they acted when you were growing up; as if they have a whole new personality.
Easy going parents suddenly become critical and happy parents become sad. In this tele-seminar I present 9 different ways to understand your aging parents behavior and how you can deal with them.
If you find it difficult to understand your aging parents, I recommend that you do yourself and your aging parents a favor and listen to the replay.
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Elderly Parents: Easing The Move
The difficult decision that you dreaded for so long finally came: Your elderly parents are not able to live in their own home anymore and they must move either into a nursing home, assisted living quarters or into one of their children’s homes. Read more