Posted by antigua on January 18, 2004, at 11:10:39
In reply to Any good parenting resources for people like me?, posted by socialdeviantjeff on January 17, 2004, at 23:38:04
Hello there. When I had a breakdown this past summer I tried to hide it from my kids, who live with me 24 hrs/day. Wrong. Kids are way too perceptive. I spent as much times as a I could in bed and lost a lot of weight. My daughter referred to my diet as the "nap diet". Cracked me up.
I was as honest as I could be w/them. I told my older child I was depressed but getting help, that it ran in our family, blah, blah, blah. The other two I told that my new medicine made me tired (an understatement, but totally true) and that I would be better soon. That said, I did my best to be active when they were around and tried to save retreating to my bed for the most serious occasions.
Kids know everything, and if they don't understand, they think it's their fault so I always try to make sure they know it doesn't have anything to do w/them.
antigua
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