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Parenting With Arthritis - Raising Children When You Have Arthritis

Raising your children can be a hard enough task for even the healthiest of parents. The pain and other limitations of arthritis can add extra difficulties and challenges to parenting. Information, articles and resources on finding positive solutions to these difficult issues and problems.
Parenting Skills and Arthritis - Parenting Skills
Your parenting skills may be tested if you live with arthritis pain. Physical limitations can interfere with your energy level and ability to share activities with your kids. Has arthritis affected your parenting skills?
How to Best Raise Children When You Have Arthritis
Living with arthritis can add extra difficulties and challenges to parenting. Here are some positive strategies for effective parenting when you live with arthritis or a related disease.
Dad Has RA. Thoughts From His Sons.
It is the desire of every parent to do the best they can for their children. All parents feel that way. Imagine the thought process of a parent who lives with chronic arthritis, the pain and limitations, and eventual disability. How are children impacted when a parent has rheumatoid arthritis (RA)? What changes from the perspective of the kids? I asked my husband Rick's sons, my stepsons.
The Impact Of Chronic Arthritis On Family
Many changes occur in the life of someone who must live with a chronic condition such as arthritis. It not only affects the person who has the disease, but also significantly impacts the people around them.
Balancing Work and Home - Free Newsletter E-mail Course
How do successful fathers balance the competing demands of work and home life? Learn how to put your life in balance and give greater priority to your family.
How to Become a Super Dad
What separates the good dad from the true "Super Dad" is patience, humor, honesty and other critical virtues! Here are some tips and links on how to become a super dad.
Parenting Perspective by Dianne Witter
It may never be easy, but parents who have arthritis say a "can-do" attitude, along with some creativity and flexibility, make it possible to care for an infant or toddler. The bottom line, many parents say, is that by taking care of themselves and their disease, they can be better parents, from Arthritis.org.
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