by admin | Mar 27, 2022 | Empathy
Source: Understood At a Glance Showing empathy involves understanding what your child is going through. It can be hard to show empathy when you’re frustrated about a situation. Acknowledging and valuing your child’s feelings is a powerful way to connect. Imagine this...
by admin | Mar 27, 2022 | Empathy
Source: Shield HealthCare Do parents of children with special needs and empathy burnout go hand-in-hand? One mom talks about how she copes with empathy burnout while caring for her two young boys. Survivor Stress Do you have any people in your life; perhaps it’s even...
by admin | Mar 27, 2022 | Empathy
Source: Psychology Today Having a special needs (SN) child brings with it many of the typical joys of parenting, but let’s not kid ourselves into believing that there aren’t major drawbacks for the parents. As a psychologist and parent of a special needs child of my...
by admin | Mar 27, 2022 | Empathy
Source: Calgary’s Child As a parent of a child with special needs, I can’t tell you how many times someone has innocently said to me, “I don’t know how you do it.” Meant to be an empathetic comment, it often left me wanting to respond, “I don’t know either” or,...
by admin | Mar 27, 2022 | Empathy
Source: silive.com Recently I overheard a social worker make this comment about a young mother of a child. “She is in such denial! She doesn’t have a clue about what’s going on! She needs to get real and begin dealing with what’s really going on.” Who she was talking...
by admin | Mar 21, 2022 | Empathy
Source: SCAN of Northern Virginia Since the launch of the Parenting Can Be Tough campaign, we continue to consider this theme through the eyes of different parents in our communities. The challenges of parenting can be universal—consider topics like discipline,...
