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How I Lived My Life When My Dad Deployed
- Nathan Wright, a 12-year-old, describes how he coped while his father was deployed to Iraq. He tells how he helped out at home and how he communicated with his father while he was deployed. This article includes links to other similar articles and websites that offer advice for parents of children with deployed parents.
Understanding Your Child's Reaction to Your Return
- It can be a difficult situation when Sailors return home and find that their children are scared or don't remember them. Information on normal reactions, how to prevent the problem by maintaining contact, tips to reconnect, and suggestions for additional information are all included.
How I Survived Deployment
- Ramona Seals tells how she copes with deployment of her spouse. She discusses strategies and tips to help make the time easier.
Is Your Child Overloaded With After-School Activities?
- How to balance after-school activities with children's need for personal and family time. The article covers information about handling extracurricular activities while being a military family.
Tweens: A Survival Guide for Parents of Pre-Teens
- Parenting is challenging enough, but now you have entered the dreaded adolescent years. Have no fear. This article will assist you in helping your 9-12 year old tween navigate the ups and downs of military life.
Reactions of Children
- This article details some signs to look for in your child's behavior that may indicate separation anxiety.
Children and Deployment: Keeping in Touch
- It is important for you as a parent to help your children keep in touch with their deployed father or mother. Read on for ways that both younger and older kids can stay connected with a deployed parent.
How to Keep Deployed Dads Close at Heart on Father's Day
- You can make Dad feel special on Father's Day even though he is deployed, and military kids can celebrate Father's Day no matter where their father may be.
What Does My Daddy Do? Military Parents in the Work Place
- Does your child understand what you do everyday when you head off to work? Do they understand why you leave for 6 months at a time? Learn how to help your children understand your military work.
Letters From the Heart
- This article is about how and why to write handwritten letters. Links to University of Rochester History Department, Hoboes.com, SquiglysPlayhouse.com, and the Arizona State University Writing Center.
Parents, Kids, and Deployments: How to Keep Connected
- Learn how to help a military child keep in touch with a parent who is on deployment, using snail mail, e-mail, video and audio tapes, and care packages.
The Deployment Roller Coaster: Emotions of Children
- Deployment is a part of military life that families have to live with. It's hard enough as an adult but as a child it can feel like an emotional roller-coaster ride.
Rallying Support for Children in an Unexpected Deployment
- Whether expected or unexpected, a deployment is never easy, especially for children. However, through communication, your children will make it through the deployment and might even be the better for it.
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