Guest guest Posted March 30, 2004 Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 I have a stepson but he copes pretty well. How old is you step daughter? My son is 9. I think the only issue we have had, due to our mito child, was that he was getting horrible stomach aches all the time. This was at a peak in Gracies health and she was not doing well. We took him to the doctor, he assured him that he is healthy and does not have this disease, and then he was fine. I know it bothers all the children, we are expecting our 5th in Sept., but we really try not to talk about the bad things around them. If you wish to chat more please feel free to email me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 31, 2004 Report Share Posted March 31, 2004 Hi: Before we had a name for our Leah's problems; we were dealing with cleft palate issues when her older brothers were 5 and 3 years old. Things came up with them dealing with our time being gone. It finally came out in one of our talks with our older son that it's Leah he proclaimed. We knew our appointments were affecting the kids but to what detail we didn't know. You may want your stepdaughter to talk to a counselor. Some one who can help her with the processing of dealing with a sibling who has an illness. We have had our two sons talk with some one because there are a lot of issues we can (and some times can't) handle as an adult that kids have more difficulty expressing their viewpoints. How old is your step daughter? I know this may be hard to do; but you guys have a " date " with her doing her thing? We try to take our boys out separately with even if its just one of us for breakfast or even my oldest son loves to go grocery shopping with me (it's a two hour ordeal) so just a thought. There are no easy answers here. Each family situation is unique. Just letting you know what we did with our kids. Good luck and may be some of your ideas may work for us so let us know what you did. Nerenhausen mom to Leah mr_lucy wrote: >Does anyone here have stepchildren in addition to their own children? >I am asking because we are having a hard time with my husbands >daughter from his first marriage. She does not have Mito...but she >is having a hard time dealing with some of the over-flow from her >half little sister's bad days. > >Thanks > >Myst > > > > >Please contact mito-owner with any problems or questions. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 31, 2004 Report Share Posted March 31, 2004 Hi: Before we had a name for our Leah's problems; we were dealing with cleft palate issues when her older brothers were 5 and 3 years old. Things came up with them dealing with our time being gone. It finally came out in one of our talks with our older son that it's Leah he proclaimed. We knew our appointments were affecting the kids but to what detail we didn't know. You may want your stepdaughter to talk to a counselor. Some one who can help her with the processing of dealing with a sibling who has an illness. We have had our two sons talk with some one because there are a lot of issues we can (and some times can't) handle as an adult that kids have more difficulty expressing their viewpoints. How old is your step daughter? I know this may be hard to do; but you guys have a " date " with her doing her thing? We try to take our boys out separately with even if its just one of us for breakfast or even my oldest son loves to go grocery shopping with me (it's a two hour ordeal) so just a thought. There are no easy answers here. Each family situation is unique. Just letting you know what we did with our kids. Good luck and may be some of your ideas may work for us so let us know what you did. Nerenhausen mom to Leah mr_lucy wrote: >Does anyone here have stepchildren in addition to their own children? >I am asking because we are having a hard time with my husbands >daughter from his first marriage. She does not have Mito...but she >is having a hard time dealing with some of the over-flow from her >half little sister's bad days. > >Thanks > >Myst > > > > >Please contact mito-owner with any problems or questions. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 31, 2004 Report Share Posted March 31, 2004 Hi: Before we had a name for our Leah's problems; we were dealing with cleft palate issues when her older brothers were 5 and 3 years old. Things came up with them dealing with our time being gone. It finally came out in one of our talks with our older son that it's Leah he proclaimed. We knew our appointments were affecting the kids but to what detail we didn't know. You may want your stepdaughter to talk to a counselor. Some one who can help her with the processing of dealing with a sibling who has an illness. We have had our two sons talk with some one because there are a lot of issues we can (and some times can't) handle as an adult that kids have more difficulty expressing their viewpoints. How old is your step daughter? I know this may be hard to do; but you guys have a " date " with her doing her thing? We try to take our boys out separately with even if its just one of us for breakfast or even my oldest son loves to go grocery shopping with me (it's a two hour ordeal) so just a thought. There are no easy answers here. Each family situation is unique. Just letting you know what we did with our kids. Good luck and may be some of your ideas may work for us so let us know what you did. Nerenhausen mom to Leah mr_lucy wrote: >Does anyone here have stepchildren in addition to their own children? >I am asking because we are having a hard time with my husbands >daughter from his first marriage. She does not have Mito...but she >is having a hard time dealing with some of the over-flow from her >half little sister's bad days. > >Thanks > >Myst > > > > >Please contact mito-owner with any problems or questions. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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