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...raised in Brooklyn, they met the first week of her freshman year at Pace University. They watched Ghost on their first date. Defying the marriage-and-kids-can-wait trend, they bought a starter house on Long Island almost three years ago. Nicole quit her job as a speech therapist to stay home with the children. Greg's hour-and-a-half commute to the insurance brokerage firm Marsh & McLennan started and ended in the dark. But on weekends he was all theirs...
...their feelings, whether by means of play for younger children or journals for older children, can be helpful. If, however, children are reluctant to talk about terrorism or war, let them know you are available, but don't press them. And avoid overreacting. "Don't go racing to the therapist just because they're drawing a few pictures of crashing airplanes," says Giller. Many experts advise limiting access to television news for younger children. For teenagers, they suggest parents watch the news with them and discuss it in perspective. Is biological war a real threat? Will the U.S. bombing lead...
Michelle Bodwell, 29, a marriage and family art therapist in Pasadena, Calif., lost her brother Chris when they were teenagers. She found that her parents' grief tended to overshadow her own. People would always ask her how her parents were doing and fail to direct the question to her as well. "Siblings are often the forgotten grievers," says Bodwell. "Now I encourage people to teach others what they need from them...
...Therapist Treadway thinks open dialogue is smart and necessary but warns parents to be careful not to inadvertently undermine the feelings of the other parents involved. Miami parents Warren Goldstein, a history professor, and the Rev. Donna Schaper, a Congregationalist minister, were children of the '60s and social activists. That didn't mean they got good vibes last year when it became clear that their oldest son Isaac, now 18, was having sex with his girlfriend. Goldstein and Schaper each phoned the young woman's parents to discuss the couple. Says Donna: "Her mother said, 'I know they're doing...
...want to get rich. Feel your feelings, say the grief counselors, because anger is normal and anguish is cleansing and there's nowhere to hide in any case. A party store in Texas gets an order for 10 of its Osama bin Laden piñatas from a California therapist who says she wants them for her patients. Take a gamble, come to Las Vegas, say the ads for the convention bureau, because "it's time to get away." But that doesn't mean we are arriving at normal...