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5 Ways to Connect with Your Child During Deployment

5 Ways to Connect with Your Child During Deployment

When I learned that my husband was going to deploy this year, their relationship left me nervous. It would be our first longer separation and the first my son would remember. I couldn’t help but worry, not only for them, but also for me. How would I connect with my son the way he connects with his dad?

My 3 1/2 year old son is a daddy’s boy, through and through.

He loves playing cars and dinos with Dad, matching clothes with Dad, and helping Dad with all the household tasks and projects.

Have you heard the song, “Watching You” by Rodney Atkins? (If not, you can listen here.) That’s them, in a nutshell.

My Favorite Things: Top 5 Florida Beaches

My Favorite Things: Top 5 Florida Beaches

Beach days! Oh, how my kids love going to the beach, but oh, how much work it is for us as parents. If you’re like us, we usually make a full day of it in order to make the mission worth it. This means not only packing the obvious sunscreen and towels, but the wagon to help transport those items, along with swimmies, life jackets, beach toys, water bottles, snacks, and more. When the kids aren’t yet walking, I’ve brought the infant car seat or a Bumbo seat, too. Once we were stationed in the Miami area, we also invested in a small beach tent and a couple folding beach chairs.

Consistency in the Inconsistent: Helping Military Children with Special Needs

Consistency in the Inconsistent: Helping Military Children with Special Needs

Consistency is essential in building safe boundaries yet still showing love and care to a child.

Consistency can also help a child feel safe because they’ll always know someone is there to love them and take care of their essential needs as a human. Consistency in the military is almost an oxymoron. As the sun rises every day, I know that my service member’s plans with the military have changed in some aspect. There’s a running joke between military spouses when someone asks how long our service members will be gone, when we’re moving, or where we’re moving, and the answer is usually, “I don’t know.”

More than a Softball Scholarship

More than a Softball Scholarship

Sometimes things come together just at the right time. Call it good fortune. Call it serendipity. Perhaps it’s best described as good things coming to good people.

Just ask the Taft family about it. They will tell you that the Hope For The Warriors New Balance Military Youth Athletic Scholarship arrived at exactly the right time to help their teenage daughter Clara keep her softball dreams alive and reignite her passion for the sport and for life.

Sam Says “See You Later”: Chapter 2

Sam Says “See You Later”: Chapter 2

  Editor's Note: Before you read "Chapter 2," get caught up on the previous part of the story.  Sam sat anxiously on the gym floor trying to disguise what she was feeling inside. She was nervous, she was tired, and she was slightly resentful. She felt like things...

Teacher Appreciation & Summer Reading

Teacher Appreciation & Summer Reading

Yesterday as I was scrolling through Facebook, I noticed a lot of my former coworkers had shared a post regarding Teacher Appreciation Week. The post asked for updates from parents or former students, stating something along the lines of, “If I ever taught you or your child, this year for Teacher Appreciation Week please share what you (or your child) are up to now.” I, of course, read through some of the comments. And on one friend’s comments, a mom posted an update that her son was now a rescue swimmer in the Navy and included a photo.

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