Sad military kids
@jjallwilliams5 (26)
United States
November 1, 2007 12:20pm CST
My husband has left for Afghanistan. He has deployed many times before, but my oldest son is taking it very hard this time. My husband is in a very high impact career that will have him away (deployed) every year. He leaves for 8 months, then is home for 6 months before he leaves for another 8. My son is in kindergarten and has been in to talk to a counselor many times because he gets really sad in class and won't participate. I've been a military wife for 10 years, and was enlisted before that. So I know the military lifestyle very well and know all kinds of tactics for keeping the kids upbeat while their daddy is away. I just wanted to know if there is anyone else who has been through it many times and has a child who is taking it unusually bad this time.
4 responses
@armywifey (882)
• United States
20 Nov 07
My husband got back in April of this year and this deployment was the worst. He was only gone for 8 months this time but for some reason the kids took it harder than usual. My oldest daughter started doing poorly in school and backtalking me to no end. She spoke with a counselor also and it seemd to help some. Things went back to normal as soon as he got back. I just want to say god bless you all and your husbands for serving the country. I know we all hear that alot but it always make me feel god.
If you ever need to talk you can pm me.
@usmcsgtwife (4997)
• United States
6 Nov 07
My husband deployed last year and at the time my son was 4 he took it really hard, what helped him was this deployment DVD that is put out by Sesame Street and Walmart, we also made a recording of my husband reading my sons favorite books and I would play that for my son at night, when he got home from school we would write daddy a letter and that helped, I hope things get easier = ) HUGS!!
@rebelslady07 (21)
• United States
4 Nov 07
I am just getting ready to go through this myself. My hubby deploys for Iraq after the New Year arrives. His daughter and my son are old enough to know what's going on and I know both will have a hard time with Daddy being gone for a year or more. I am indeed feeling your pain. Please feel free to IM me anytime.
@lilash2 (52)
• United States
4 Nov 07
Well, my husband is gone right now too. And I have 2 kids, but they are to young to get really sad about it. But i do know that my other friend's son took this deployment really hard. he was sick for 2 months with a stomache and was always sad about daddy being gone. So we would sit with him everyday after school and talk to him about how much daddy loves him and will be back home sometime soon. And also, we would let him cry it out, cause we found out that it really did help him to express his feelings and with in a week of letting him do this he was already getting a lot better!
