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24 - Parenting the daughter with epilepsy
from Part VI - Living well with epilepsy
- By Joan Kessner Austin, Indiana University School of Nursing, 1111 Middle Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA, Janet Austin Tooze, Biometry Research Group, 6130 Executive Boulevard, Suite 3131, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Edited by Martha J. Morrell, Columbia University, New York, Kerry L. Flynn, Columbia-Presbyterian Cancer Center, New York
Book:

Women with Epilepsy

Published online:

02 November 2009

Print publication:

20 March 2003, pp 249-262
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Summary

Parents want their children to grow up to be independent, kind, loving, well educated, and competent. When a child develops epilepsy however, it adds a whole new layer of difficulty to parenting. This chapter focuses on three parenting tasks: learning about epilepsy, helping your daughter, and coming to terms with having a daughter with epilepsy. The first one involves trying to learn as much as a parent needs to know about epilepsy and handling future seizures so as to take good care of the daughter. Secondly, the parent can try to help the daughter to deal with having seizures and the side effects of the medication. Lastly, the parent has to come to terms with what epilepsy was doing to him/her. The parent has to handle his/her own emotions so as to be able to be effective in helping the daughter.