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In the January edition of Pediatrics, Thurber and Walton offer these 14 tips on preventing kids’ homesickness:
- Talk with kids about the upcoming separation.
- Tell kids that it’s normal to feel homesick.
- Talk with kids about coping with homesickness.
- Involve kids in the decision to spend time away from home.
- Send kids on a “practice” trip, such as few days at a friend’s or relative’s house.
- Have kids practice writing letters before leaving.
- If possible, help kids meet at least one person (adult or child) from the new setting before leaving.
- Encourage kids to make friends and seek support from trusted adults when they’re gone.
- Be enthusiastic and optimistic about your child’s away-from-home experience.
- No negativity. Don’t say things like, “I hope you’ll be OK.”
- Give kids pre-stamped, preaddressed envelopes and notebook paper when they leave.
- Don’t make a deal with kids to get them if they don’t like being away.
- Don’t use the experience as a drug holiday for kids on medications.
- If kids have special needs, confirm in advance that those needs will be met.
Thurber and Walton also recommend these seven ways for kids to cope with homesickness:
- Do something fun, like playing with friends.
- Do something to feel closer to home, like writing a letter home.
- Go see someone who can talk with you to help you feel better.
- Look at the bright side, such as activities and friends in the new setting.
- Think that the time away is short.
- Don’t dwell on home.
- Think about what a loved one would say to make you feel better.
What about calling home?
During short separations, “old-fashioned letters may be the best way to maintain contact with home,” write Thurber and Walton. They note that writing letters tends to be less emotional and requires more personal reflection than calling home.
SOURCES: Thurber, C. Pediatrics, January 2007; Vol. 119: pp. 192-201. News release, University of Michigan.
By Miranda Hitti
Reviewed by Louise Chang, M.D
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tips-to-ease-the-sting-of-homesickness/
A child is a gift from God. The Lord has used you as parents to bring your child into this world, to give your son or daughter life and to raise them in this world. But your child is still God’s creation – they still belong to Him. As Christian parents, you have the responsibility to nurture your child in an environment that serves Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, so that your child will not give in to temptation. To be obedient is a duty for your child, but you have to help him or her to do so joyfully. You need to be an example by showing them love and care through your words and deeds. Do not behave in a way that is not Christ-like.….
Find the whole text at:https://fitforfamily.org/blog/your-treasure-from-god/
A child is a gift from God. The Lord has used you as parents to bring your child into this world, to give your son or daughter life and to raise them in this world. But your child is still God’s creation – they still belong to Him. As Christian parents, you have the responsibility to nurture your child in an environment that serves Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, so that your child will not give in to temptation. To be obedient is a duty for your child, but you have to help him or her to do so joyfully. You need to be an example by showing them love and care through your words and deeds. Do not behave in a way that is not Christ-like.….
Find the whole text at:https://fitforfamily.org/blog/your-treasure-from-god/
During the Great Plague of London Isaac Newton had to spent one year at his parents home. Cambridge University was closed.
Without his professors to guide him, Newton apparently thrived. The year-plus he spent away was later referred to as his annus mirabilis, the “year of wonders.”
His assistant, John Conduitt explained what happened:
“ … Whilst he was musing in a garden it came into his thought that the same power of gravity (which made an apple fall from the tree to the ground) was not limited to a certain distance from the earth but must extend much farther than was usually thought. ‘Why not as high as the Moon?’ said he to himself..”
In London, a quarter of the population would die of plague from 1665 to 1666. It was one of the last major outbreaks in the 400 years that the Black Death ravaged Europe.
Newton returned to Cambridge in 1667, theories in hand. Within six months, he was made a fellow; two years later, a professor.
So if you’re working or studying from home over the next few weeks, perhaps remember the example Newton set. Having time to muse and experiment in unstructured comfort proved life.
That is also a biblical view of life. …
“The fact is that men and women communicate differently. Although men and women speak the same language, we have differences in priorities, internal processing and behaviour patterns so it is easy to misunderstand, misinterpret or simply not get where the other is coming from.
To increase your ability to persuade, motivate, influence and get along, you must understand the gender communication rules or gender codes for how men and women communicate. This in-turn will help you to build rapport, relationships and connect.
Find the whole story at https://fitforfamily.org/blog/21-eye-opening-ways-men-and-women-communicate-differently/
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