As a parent, when your child joins the military you go through a wide range of emotions; ranging from extreme pride to high anxiety. The first time you see your child after basic training/boot camp, you expect to see someone tempered by the heat of...
As parents, we’re proud of our kids (most of the time). We gave birth to them, we diapered them, put up with toddler tantrums, held their hands when they crossed the street, and we guided them through school and sometimes painful life experiences...
From our new guest author – Lela – who is a former Air Force Officer, married to a retired Air Force officer, and parent of serving AirForce daughter and a Marine son. Did you ever go to one of those group courses where they made you do an exercise...
So your child is being deployed… When my son was getting ready for deployment to Iraq, so was I (getting ready for his deployment, I mean.) I scoured the web for information on what we (his parents) should do in advance of his deployment to no avail...
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