Showing posts from: January 2014
[This site has been hacked by a Marijuana sales site and is no longer active (disgusting) – which makes me sorry for you. You really should have seen it in its day!]
Living with any chronic medical condition can be exhausting, especially so with Cystic Fibrosis. But few understand just what it is or what it is like to live with it. Here is a blog kept by the mother of a 10-year-old boy with Cystic Fibrosis – Azer.
[Site no longer active – even the “wayback archive doesn’t help]
[http://www.azerscfwebsite.com/]
We all know that birthmarks aren’t very uncommon. One particular type, Infantile Hemangiomas, can kind of sneak up on parents and some times be quite worrying.
About four percent of infants develop these kinds of lesions and most of them don’t become visible until sometime after birth. (more…)
Let me let you listen in on a typical conversation between a pediatrician and parents of an infant, child or adolescent who is quite ill.
“Mr. and Mrs. Brown, Adam looks very ill, but I can’t be sure about what’s causing it until we run some tests.”
(more…)
[This site is one of those “blogspot” sites which is still there (including my referenced page) but is no longer actively added too – which thing makes me sorry for you… Alas, her last post was in 2019… You really should have seen it in its day!]
How does a non-confrontational parent discipline her boys? Click on the link above or below to give it a read; and see one mother’s experience trying to raise a “tribe” of four boys—especially as they turn into teenagers.
[http://tovskytwins.blogspot.com/2009/12/disciplinarian.html]
Of all the aspects of parenting, discipline holds the most fear in the hearts of parents. Some of that may be due to a misunderstanding of the difference between discipline and punishment, some due to an unclear understanding of the role of “parent, and some due to a lack of role model.
Or, it could be any one of a million different issues (perhaps I do exaggerate just a bit.)
This short series only considers the one aspect and began when I found a post by another author entitled “discipline in a non-confrontational parent”; a schizophrenic concept if ever I heard one. I just had to read it.
4 Posts in "Discipline" Series
- Discipline Series: Intro/Index – 1 Jan 2014
Of all the parts of parenting, discipline is the single most unpleasant and difficult. This series contains posts which are strictly about discipline, it's why and how.
- Discipline in a Non-Confrontational Parent (link) – 3 Jan 2014
I found a web post about being a "non-confrontational" parent and discipline. The two concepts are so... so... oddly disparate it almost seems schizophrenic. I found the post interesting enough to recommend the read. She's stopped posting now; but, the post is still there.
- Parenting: Discipline – 7 Dec 2017
Discipline isn't easy as a parent. Teaching about it isn't easy as a doctor. And, writing about it, isn't easy as a columnist either. Every circumstance is different and every child is different; but we've learned a lot of lessons over the years about how to make it easy(er) on everyone concerned. Here are several.
- Discipline and Natural Consequences – 3 Feb 2018
A colleague of mine, Dr. Greg Barrett, has written quite a bit about discipline and I have too. We have similar philosophies but what would it look like if we should share a case together and discuss our approaches. Would we agree? Would there be things you could learn from our discussion? Let's see!
If you’d like to read about other parenting issues, I suggest you immerse yourself in the guest-post series by Dr. Greg Barrett which I’ve posted on this site rather than loose his well-spent efforts to a web-site-flipper camping on his abandoned site. AND, believe it or not, there’s some good parenting articles over on the “meditation” series.
