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Parenting

When a Parent Is Grieving: What Children Pick Up On

When you're grieving, your child feels it. Your sadness lives in the house. Your attention is divided. Your fuse is short. None of that makes you a ba...

5 min read

Parenting

Why Some Parents Feel a Loss of Identity

There is a particular sentence parents whisper, often guiltily, often around month five or eight: "I love my child and I have no idea who I am anymore...

7 min read

Parenting

Parenting During Grief and Loss

Grief is exhausting. When you're losing someone important, your child still needs breakfast, bedtime, and emotional presence. The contradiction—grievi...

3 min read

Parenting

How Children Experience Parental Separation

The most-cited longitudinal work on children of divorce — Mavis Hetherington's 30-year study — landed on a finding that surprised both sides of the po...

8 min read

Daycare

Saying Goodbye to a Daycare: Emotional Considerations

Leaving a daycare your child loved — for a move, a school transition, or a change in care arrangements — is a real ending. By the time a child has bee...

6 min read

Parenting

Miscarriage: What to Expect Physically and Emotionally

Miscarriage is the most common complication of pregnancy and one of the least discussed. About 1 in 5 confirmed pregnancies ends in loss, and the true...

6 min read

Emotions

When a Child Loses Someone: Supporting Children Through Bereavement

A bereaved child is often the quietest griever in the room. The adults are visibly distraught and absorbed in their own loss. The child plays, asks fo...

9 min read