Parenting Special Children with Health Issues

Parents with healthy kids certainly have their work cut out for them, but the challenges they face might seem easy compared to parents who have to raise one or more children with special health problems.

Today's FamilyFirst site is aimed at parents in that situation. It's called Parenting Special Children with Health Issues.

Lisa Greene, a San Ramon, California mother of two children with cystic fibrosis, knows first hand that it takes special skills to deal with the most challenging of parenting circumstances, the care of children with chronic medical conditions.

Whether a child has significant weight problems, allergies, asthma, diabetes, cancer or any number of other serious medical issues, parents need to learn how to cope with the demanding health challenges, emotional roller coasters and the day to day realities in order to live hope-filled lives.

Mrs. Greene has teamed up with Foster W. Cline, M.D., well known child psychiatrist and co-founder, with Jim Fay, of the Love and Logic Institute. Together they have written an incredibly informative new book titled Parenting Children with Health Issues.

“Normal life and everyday parenting doesn’t prepare you for this situation,” Mrs. Greene said. “We pulled together many years of personal and clinical experience to identify the skills and knowledge necessary to help parents come up to their full potential especially when they are dealing with children with serious health disorders and illnesses.”

The book takes the powerful yet easy to use parenting techniques developed in Love and Logic and applies them to situations where children have special healthcare needs. The book offers up a veritable arsenal of tools to empower parents so that they know how to deal with difficult situations.

http://www.parentingchildrenwithhealthissues.com/

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