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Help Your Child to Cope with Sibling’s Special Needs

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It is typical for a family that includes more than one child to see some sibling rivalry from time to time. What isn’t so typical is the amount of responsibility that kids who have a sibling that has special needs often feel is placed upon them. Here are a few tips to help your child cope with the special needs of his or her sibling. As the oldest kid, I spent time helping my younger siblings with homework, with tying their shoes, and with other day to day activities. This isn’t unheard of or unusual. The difference was that my … Continue reading →

Risk of Autism Increases if Older Sibling Has Autism

Researchers at the UC Davis MIND Institute have done a study that reveals that an infant who has an older sibling who has autism has an increased risk of developing autism as well. The percentage of risk is actually higher than had previously been estimated. Parents of a child who has autism should make sure that child’s younger siblings are screened for this disorder. The study involved 664 infants. The average age of the infants at enrollment was about 8 months. Two thirds of them were younger than 6 months of age. Researchers followed the babies development until the infant … Continue reading →

Autism Risk and the New Sibling Link

There has always been speculation about the link among siblings and autism. Having one child with autism increases the risk that his or her siblings will have it too. But recent research now shows that the risk is even higher than scientist and doctors once believed. In fact, a new study shows that parents who have one child with autism have an incredible one in five chance of having a second child with autism. Previous research suggested that the risk was only one in ten. I’ve seen this first hand with families. Parents who are having to support not just … Continue reading →

Help for Siblings

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Now that I’m the mother of two children, one with a chronic health condition, and one without, new concerns have arisen when it comes to how I parent. My eldest daughter will need extra attention throughout the course of everyday as there are hours of treatments and therapies that she will need my help with. My younger daughter will need my attention too, just as any child would. I’d like to believe that I will be able to balance the attention between them, giving extra attention to one during some parts of the day and extra to the other during … Continue reading →

Sibling Safety

Your older child can cause unseen danger to your baby in ways other than you might think. Here is what you need to know in order to protect your children. When you bring a new baby home, you might worry about how your older child will receive the new baby. Most of the time, older siblings make the transition pretty easily, especially with the support of loving parents. The safety concern that I want to discuss today has nothing to do with harm coming to a younger child as a result of jealousy, but rather from decisions that the parents … Continue reading →

When Siblings Have Shared Friends

If your children are like mine and they are close together in age, one of the “bonuses” is that they may very well move in the same social circles and interact with some of the same peer group. Some kids really like this, while others may want to have their very own friends that they don’t have to share. In my own family, we have been through “stages”—there was a period around the middle school years where my kids really needed to separate and carve out their own identities and this meant having their own friends too. Overall, however, there … Continue reading →

Sibling Support

We talk a great deal about sibling rivalries, fighting and tension here in the Parenting blog, but what we don’t give much space to is how supportive and encouraging siblings can be for each other. Those sibling bonds can be strong and for those of us parenting more than one child, there may be things that we can do to help siblings learn to love, depend on and enjoy one another… Years ago, a friend of mine referred to my three children as “cheaters”—it didn’t apply to how they played board games but it was her take on how they … Continue reading →

The Most Talked About Homeschooling Blogs in 2007

This is my annual list of the most talked about blogs in 2007. We love comments, and the more the better! If you have been wanting to peruse the homeschooling blog but weren’t sure where to start. . .this is the place to be! My Top 5 Math Curriculum Picks In Defense of Teaching Creation Too Much Information Homeschooling or Housekeeping? Why We Are Not Testing Our Gifted Son Reason #2 Why Tax Credits Are Wrong for Homeschoolers You Call That Homeschooling? The National Lunch Association Takes Aim at Those Who Dare to Eat at Home It Has Been a … Continue reading →

Ask a Marriage Blogger: Why Don’t You Write More About Gay Marriage

Hey, I read your blogs all the time and I like them, but you don’t offer a lot of marriage advice for gay couples. I got the impression you supported gay marriage, so why don’t you write more about gay marriage and advice for gay couples? Martin Martin, thanks for writing and thanks for not minding if I answered you directly in the blog and I appreciate the conversation we’ve had on this topic. As it stands, this marriage blog is written for families.com and our material here is to be considered family appropriate. While I do support the right … Continue reading →

Let’s Talk Pregnancy Blog Top Ten – Ways to Break the News

I distinctly remember the ancient Full House episode in which Aunt Becky attempts to announce her pregnancy to Uncle Jesse during a family game of Pictionary. First she drew a wheel of cheese, then I think she mocked cutting it in half, then came a bottle of ink, and of course a picture of a baby. Cheese. Half. Ink. A baby? Sheeeeshalvingababy? She’s having a baby! And the Tanner family erupted with congratulatory whelping. There’s more than one way to break the news of your pregnancy to family, friends and significant others, so why not make it really fun – … Continue reading →