What is your response to your child’s cry? Whether you’re raising a newborn or teen-ager, every child has a cry. It could be tears, screams, tantrums or other attention-seeking behaviors. During the month of May, we will discuss how our response to those cries can lead to confident children who feel loved and HEARD while maintaining balance for the whole family!
I’ll be writing about this issue AND ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS. Please submit a question on my Facebook page (click here) or in the comment section of this blog post about challenges you have with your child’s cry. Your question could be featured this month on my Facebook page or blog.
Parenting is a journey and it takes a village to not only raise our children, but keep parents encouraged and empowered to overcome the day-to-day challenges of this amazing gifts we have been given.
I am excited about this month’s dialogue and look forward to growing with you on this parenting journey.
Published by Tamara Dickerson, M.D.
Welcome to my answer to a parenting housecall! I am a practicing pediatrician who has been asked on many occasions to come home with my families. I have been offered wallets (full of credit cards and checks-hehehe!) and even the invitation to, “please take my child for weekend”!
Here is my 21st century version of a house call. This will be as close as I will get to most of you in going home with you. My dream is to provide you some practical and humorous tips to make your parenting journey appear more successful and definitely more enjoyable.
Wisdom Moments is a resource that offers help in those moments when you feel like you are not leading the battle, let alone winning it. In those moments when you just need a little creativity but keep coming up with a blank. When those big ole’ eyes of your child are looking up at you , challenging – are you ready for this?! Instead of gulping and waving the white flag…drop by here for a little bit of parenting encouragement/reinforcement.
Despite the humor I use to share my message, I want to reassure you have heard each request and take them very seriously. What I bring to the table is not only my credentials as an accredited pediatrician, but just as validating is that I, too, am a fellow parent in the trenches with you! So what I have to offer you, I pray, is creative, effective and grounded in truth and reality. This blog will become my way, for now, to be more available to you and to share my parenting pearls. So…a toast to christen this maiden voyage “May we laugh and cry together…may we agree and disagree…may we always encourage each other that our children are worth climbing every mountain, scouring every valley, crossing any desert – to find a parenting pearl that will positively change a course of action for us and them”.
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