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Tips for Helping Your Child After Deployment

Change, even a positive one like a loved one's return, can be stressful for infants and toddlers. Learn how to guide them through this adjustment.
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It is natural for young child to be cautious around the returning parent and need time to get reacquainted. Here are a few tips to help you help them.

A deployment reunion can be a time of great joy and great uncertainty. It took months during the deployment for the family to fall into a new rhythm. Roles
were established, expectations set, and routines fell into place. As the active duty parent returns to the family, all this will have to be renegotiated. Change,
even as positive as a loved one’s return, can be stressful. You have a lifetime of experiences and skills to help you deal with the post-deployment transition.
Your children, on the other hand, are relying on you to help guide them through this adjustment.

It takes time for families to create new postdeployment routines and for members to really feel like they’re back on track. Download our resource below for tips on helping your child after deployment.

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