Category Archives: Family

Tips for Coping with Pet Loss

Nothing can prepare you for the loss of a pet. Coping with pet loss is a very personal experience with a unique set of emotions to deal with. While many of us try to ignore the pain by keeping busy, it’s important to allow ourselves to experience pain and sorrow. Here are a few ways […]

How to Help a Teenager with Anxiety and Depression

Life is stressful at any age, but the teenage years can be especially difficult. Academic, social, and family pressures can create feelings of rejection, disappointment, or sadness. These days, we’re seeing more cases of teens and depression, with 1.8 million of our country’s youth having experienced severe depression in 2017 alone. If you’re wondering how […]

Pre Deployment Gifts for the Families Left Behind

When our brave loved ones are deployed to serve our country, they leave behind the family and friends who love them. It’s obviously hard on them, but it’s also difficult for the family they leave. Nothing can compare to having them there, but pre deployment gifts can make it a little easier. 4 Deployment Gifts […]

Care Package Ideas for Soldiers

Receiving a care package from home can do so much for a deployed service member. But choosing a going away gift for someone being deployed can seem difficult. The good news is, finding and packing up the package can make you feel even closer to your loved one. Here are some meaningful care packages ideas […]

Support Children with Comfort Dolls

Being a kid is tough, but it’s even more difficult when you’re missing a parent or loved one. Whether Daddy is in the hospital or Mommy is on a military deployment, a child who longs for the one they love could use a little comfort therapy. And one of the best forms comes in the […]

Unique Gifts for Family Far Away

As much as we’d like to be surrounded by our loved ones at all times, most of us have family and friends that don’t live nearby. When you’re looking for gifts for family far away or long-distance friends, there’s nothing quite like a HUGGEE doll. These dolls can be personalized with photos and vocal recordings, […]

Military Christmas Gifts: How Do You Gift Your Military Loved Ones?

Whether your loved ones are about to be deployed or already away on military service and will be gone for the holidays, how do you gift them? Finding the perfect deployment gifts or military Christmas gifts aren’t always easy. You miss these loved ones so much that words, gifts and cards or letters just never […]

Growing Up With Siblings: When Siblings Go Away

Growing up with siblings is special and unique. No sibling relationship is alike. Even in a large family in which one person could have three or four siblings, each sibling will have a different relationship with the other because we all bring out certain traits in each other! That’s what makes the relationship of siblings […]

Military Kids: Is It All That Bad?

The media and literature tends to focus on all the negatives that military kids face, like moving with the military. Each article tends to paint a bleak picture full of negatives for the children of military parents. Whether it’s the quality of education these children receive or dealing with parents that come back from overseas […]

Helping Children Cope With Divorce: Children Hurt

If you’re going through a divorce, you know how difficult the situation is on you and your spouse, but what about the kids? While two happy homes are better than one miserable home, it can take a while for children to adjust to divorce, and helping children cope with divorce is key to everyone moving […]