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How Does Depression Affect Your Children?

by John Folk-Williams 22 Comments

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A reader asked me recently about how his depression might affect his children. He knew he had put his wife through hell and didn’t want to have the same thing happen to their kids. He was even wondering if there were parents who had thought about not getting married and not having children because of […]

Filed Under: Children and Depression Tagged With: children, family, father, mother

A Teacher of Imagination and Resilience

by John Folk-Williams 1 Comment

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I once knew a gifted man, a born teacher of imagination and play. He taught children as a natural part of his instinct for life, and he taught the rest of us resilience in the face of illness. Steven and his lifelong friend Maria arrived in town one day, found an old office space they […]

Filed Under: Creativity Tagged With: children, illness, play, resilience, spirit, teaching

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