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Children's Head Trauma
My 8 year old son really wants to join the football team this year. I am concerned about the risk of traumatic head injuries. But on the other hand I am not sure if kids that are 8 and 9 years old can really hit hard enough to do any real damage to risk head injury. Hockey to me seems much more dangerous, just because of the higher speeds and risk of head and ice contact. Do you think a child at 8 years of age has to worry about traumatic brain injury from football, or is this just something that you start seeing as the players get bigger and faster and stronger?
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My ex wife clearly favors our daughter at the expense of our son. Our daughter is 13 and our son is 11. My wife was a dancer and my daughter is a talented ballerina. My son is bookish and really creative but introverted. During the week, when my wife has the kids, 80% of the time, attention and money goes to supporting my daughter and her very expensive and time consuming dance practices. My son gets the leftover attention, and he is clearly starting to resent his sister and starting to act out, I think, just to get attention. I try to give him extra attention when I have them 2 weekends a month but I don’t want to neglect my daughter either. My wife does not admit that there is a problem here. I think she is so hyper focused on this dream of her daughter becoming a dancer that she is blind to anything else. What can I do for him? I call them every day already but this is not enough for him. He can feel it that he’s second potato in the family and it breaks my heart.
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