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Learning Disabilities Articles for Help with Kids by Susan Kramer

Contents

1. What Is Dysgraphia? 2. Dyslexia Information and Help 3. Oppositional Defiant Disorder - Symptoms 4. Oppositional Defiant Disorder - Explained 5. Oppositional Defiant Disorder - Managing Anger 6. What Is Childhood Disintegrative Disorder  - CDD? 7. Hyperlexia Information 8. Asperger's Disorder Information 9. TSC and Learning Disabilities 10. Living Harmoniously with Learning Disabilities 11. Cooperation and Learning Disabilities 12. Overcoming Stress 13. Dividing Time Between Your Kids 14. Helping Kids with Challenges Make Friends 15. Learning Difficulties or Disabilities? 16. Making Transitions and Learning Disabilities 17. Helping Kids Find New Solutions 18. Back to School Dress When Challenged 19. Showing Courage and Learning Disabilities 20. Teach Kids to Stay Close to Home 21. Feeling Fear and Learning Disabilities 22. Kids Learn Trustworthiness 23. Multitasking Ideas

24. Laziness or Learning Disabilities? 25. Helping Kids Reach Their Goals 26. Family Roundtable Discussions with Kids 27. Materialism Issues 28. Illness or Accident Leading to a Challenge 29. Vocational or Academics for Challenged Teens? 30. Expectations and Relating 31. Nurturing Kids of All Abilities 32. Our Roles in the Eyes of Society 33. Developing Self-Esteem 34. Changing Goals and Learning Disabilities 35. Shopping Trips Can Be Educational 36. Achievement with Learning Disabilities 37. Resolving Conflicts and Learning Disabilities 38. Teaching Kids Order and Organization 39. Family Life with Learning Disabilities 40. Backyard Motor Skills Games 41. Truancy and Learning Disabilities 42. Kids Learn About Playing Fairly 43. Looking for Equitable Resolves 44. Aerobic Activities for Stress Relief in School 45. Acceptance, Abundance and Learning Disabilities 46. Kids Learn About Sharing

37. Resolving Conflicts and Learning Disabilities

Children show us that our boundary of caring needs to extend beyond ourselves. Whether we birth or inherit them from other relationships children stretch our edges of responsibility as we fulfill their needs.

It is through bearing the responsibility for children, including close care for our learning disabled children, and childlike elderly parents, that we experience our interconnection between at least three generations.

When we pass on to our children the lessons that we have learned so far in conflict resolution, each succeeding generation evolves.

In the family setting we give for the welfare of our children. Giving for a child's benefit is not give and take. We give, give, give, and do not receive in kind, a child does not have the capacity to give back to us in the same way.

What we do receive through caring for children is a shredding of our self-centeredness, our cage of self-containment, our concept that we are here on earth only to satisfy desires from our own mind.

We give to our children while they are growing up. What they give back to us is a permanent experience of ourselves as expansive beings in that we feel ourselves within the framework of others' lives.

Children are molded and learn by example more than through books or verbal instruction. If each parent acts to influence the child from conflicting viewpoints the child grows up confused. Which of the parents ways will lead to harmonious living?

Our goal in raising children is for them to be able to make their own decisions in conflicts by considering the pros and cons, then acting in a way that their mind can be peaceful with their decisions, thereby living happy and useful lives.

Parents, in front of the child act as if both are in agreement. Before presenting this image privately hear each other out considering each other's ideas. Then together in a calm state present the consensus viewpoint. As parents, we need to be objective and respectful to each other, remembering that there is no right or wrong point of view every event in life is to be individually worked out dependent upon the circumstances involved.

When the child sees both parents united in their approach the child will more easily accept the parents' input and the child is prevented from using one parent's say against the other.

Article by Susan Kramer

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