A Life of Care Giving – Becoming an Enlightened Caregiver

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After the divorce of my parents when I was three years old, I was left in the care of my undiagnosed psychotic grandmother. I was continually confused and neglected by my working mother. When I thought to complain to her she admonished me and said, “A cat has kittens they don’t bother the mother cat. Do you mean to tell me you aren’t as smart as a cat?? I felt ashamed to be in need of parental guidance as I grew up. Then I grew resentful at my life in her home After my grandma tried to kill me the my mother came to believe I needed her help. After I married I felt that I didn’t want her, or her help in my life. However, something happened that made me realize she was a good negative teacher. I am grateful we were able to improve our relationship.

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Six-year-old Emma has big dreams for her new baby brother. But when she learns that he has Down syndrome, she worries that he won’t be able to do many of the fun things she’s imagined they’d do together. This is a reassuring story for young children as well as parents adjusting to Down syndrome and what it means for their relationship with their sibling or child. It concludes with helpful questions and answers for children about Down syndrome.

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The bestselling five-week program to improving the disruptive child’s behavior–now updated and revised

Based on more than 40 years of collective research, parents and longtime child behavior experts Dr. Rex Forehand and Dr. Nicholas Long have devised a program to help you find positive and manageable solutions to your child’s difficult behavior. Now in a revised and updated edition, Parenting the Strong-Willed Child is a self-guided program for managing disruptive young children based on a clinical treatment program.

This hands-on guide provides you with a step-by-step, five-week program toward improving your child’s behavior as well as the entire family’s relationship. Providing you with the necessary tools for successfully managing the difficult child, the book covers specific factors that cause or contribute to a child’s disruptive behavior; ways to develop a more positive atmosphere in your family and home; actual reports by parents of difficult children; strategies for managing specific behavior problems; how to tell if your child might have ADHD; and more.

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Doing the Right Thing illustrates how early parent-child and sibling relationships color-sometimes painfully-the caregiving experience in midlife. There exist many resources about aging that offer practical help for caregivers, but this book takes a new approach: it focuses on caregiving as a developmental stage that provides us with an opportunity to work out some of the unresolved issues still lurking from childhood, and to enrich the relationship between the generations.

Based on the author’s personal and clinical experience, Doing the Right Thing explores important issues such as:

- how to set limits to your caregiving and cope with your guilt
- how to forgive yourself when you feel angry with the parent for whom you are caring
- how taking care of an elderly parent can bring siblings closer or split them apart forever
- how taking care of an elderly parent can strengthen your marriage or destroy it – how gender affects caring for elderly parents.

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