Tag: teen mental illness

• Series: Parenting a child with mental illness – Managing daily life

  

  Welcome back!This is part three of a four part series on parenting kids with mental illness. If you haven’t read my first post, you can catch up here . Being a Mom of teens is no walk in the park. I do not recommend parenting four teen girls at the same time. Now don’t get…

  filipinomom

  July 10, 2019

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• Series: Parenting a child with mental illness – Mama bear and diagnosis

  

  Welcome back! This is part two of a five part series on parenting kids with mental illness. If you haven’t read my first post, you can catch up here . I have always been a mama bear. I protect my kids from any nastiness from the world. It’s what my mom did for me and…

  filipinomom

  July 3, 2019

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• Series: Parenting a child with mental illness

  

  I am a mom of kids with mental illnesses. Yup – read that again. This is a difficult statement to say out loud. It was a difficult statement to type out. To say that I have completely processed these diagnoses for my kids would be a lie. I am still processing and learning how to…

  filipinomom

  June 26, 2019

  self discovery

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