the perspective of a military family . . . the narcissism of a blog
Four months down, seven months to go and we are still adjusting to the deployment in small ways. Citrus has been doing very well overall. About once a day she looks at me with sad eyes and just says “Mama”. We usually take a break from whatever we are doing to just be together unless, [...]
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The Army War College released new research last week examining the effects of multiple deployments on adolescents. The report confirms several of the well-known coping mechanisms used by military families dealing with deployments — keep busy! — but there were some interesting findings as well. They found that the largest factors that help children cope with [...]
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