Tag: ParentingKidsInPain
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A Life Changing Event
When do I get my old life back? The answer is, you don’t. That’s why they call it a ‘life changing event.’
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5% of US teens live with life altering chronic pain
Acute pain is protective. With chronic pain, the pain itself becomes the disease.
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School: The Big Picture
Families need to work together towards a shared goal: helping children grew into healthy happy adolescents and adolescents make successful transitions to adulthood.
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Doctor! Doctor! It hurts when I do this.
Doctor! Doctor! It hurts when I do this! Well . . . don’t do this.
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It’s hard being a parent
It’s so hard as a parent when you are desperately hoping your child will just make it to school and squeak through to graduation. And so hard to listen to even your dearest friends fret about things that you’d give your eye teeth to be worrying about. It’s just hard.
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Fantastic New Resource for Kids With Migraine!
Migraine Action has produced a fantastic resource for people with migraines and those who care for them. https://view.publitas.com/migraine-action/predict-the-storm-guide-for-those-supporting-cyp/page/1
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Getting Kids to Open Up
When your child is in pain, it’s easy to focus in on the three things that worry us: pain, pills, and homework. I know for myself, just seeing my son’s face triggers that mental checklist.
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New Edition Released of Parenting a Child in Chronic Pain
As a developmental psychologist who has studied parenting on four continents, I can tell you a lot about raising teenagers. But nothing prepared me for watching my son shaking under the covers flinching from the light, and unable to speak from pain.
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New look! New tagline!
While we love the look of our original logo, many of our users have found that it has TOO MUCH WHITE! and that’s just hard on the eyes if you have migraines or photophobia.
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Research: Do kids believe it’s okay for parents to set rules about rehab?
As children become teens, they take more and more control over the decisions that govern their lives. Parents set rules, but teens who disagree with those rules have choices: they can obey, argue, or hide the fact that they’re not doing what they’re supposed to. In the US, most parents and teens agree that it’s…
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I Hate Pain
I’d like to say that I started this company because of my altruistic interest in helping the world. That would be a lie. I started this company because over six short months my son went from healthy to hiding under his covers, in the dark, wearing welding glasses. He would shudder with pain because his…
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