![]() ![]() The studies are based on surveys of children and adults about their parents' degree of acceptance or rejection during their childhood, coupled with questions about their personality dispositions. The pain of rejection - especially when it occurs over a period of time in childhood - tends to linger into adulthood, making it more difficult for adults who were rejected as children to form secure and trusting relationships with their intimate partners. Looking at 36 studies from around the world that together involved more than 10,000 participants, Rohner and co-author Abdul Khaleque found that in response to rejection by their parents, children tend to feel more anxious and insecure, as well as more hostile and aggressive toward others. "Children and adults everywhere - regardless of differences in race, culture, and gender - tend to respond in exactly the same way when they perceived themselves to be rejected by their caregivers and other attachment figures." The Grabill family Beth Sawyer / Today Todayįind more of 's "2014 Voices" here."In our half-century of international research, we've not found any other class of experience that has as strong and consistent effect on personality and personality development as does the experience of rejection, especially by parents in childhood," says Ronald Rohner of the University of Connecticut, co-author of the new study in Personality and Social Psychology Review. We said, "All right, next year we want it to be very uneventful!" And here we are at Christmas time again, thankful for it all over again that we’re healthy and happy and everyone is here. I remember my husband and I sitting down last year at Christmas time, thinking this is the best gift we could have had, having him healthy and back on the road to recovery. He doesn’t really remember most of what happened. We love that he’s just a happy, normal kid. You’d never know what he’s been through just by looking at him. Beth Sawyer / TodayĪiden is doing wonderfully. Aiden and his big sister, 10-year-old Caroline, share a light moment. To give hope and to give people a good story out of pediatric cancer. Pediatric cancer is horrible and everyone should know about it, but there are good stories. We just love him so much.įor me, this ordeal has given me a bit of platform to say, good things come out of this. Having been through what we went through as a family, it was so good be able to say, yeah, he was sick, and he went through chemo and he didn’t feel good, but now look at him - he’s amazing! He’s healthy. ![]() Today, Aiden is five and has been cancer free for more than a year. We were getting email requests from people in the U.K. We would get messages every day from people we were friendly with, but hadn’t heard from in a while, saying, “Oh I saw your picture!" And then it was, "Oh my goodness, my friend in this state saw it and that state saw it!" It was crazy. The photo received more than 62,000 likes on TODAY's Facebook page and generated worldwide interest in the Grabill family. You just get a feeling of how much I love him, and that’s why I love that picture so much.and now. I mean, I can’t even see my face or his face. It’s taken off from there.įor me, that picture was about a great vacation and a great time for our family. He was always cold so I snuggled him in and Zach just snapped the picture. Aiden was getting tired so I just picked him up. It was almost sunset when we took a little walk. Luckily, he managed his chemo well enough and his numbers were good so we took him. It’s special for my whole family and we really wanted to take Aiden and the kids and just have a good vacation. ![]() That particular beach, Boca Grande, is a place I’ve been going since I was a little kid. In this piece for 's "2014 Voices" series, she shares the story behind the photo, which she provided TODAY as part of a callout for viewers' favorite vacation snapshots, and what happened after it racked up more than 60,000 likes as one of TODAY's #100HappyDays. She had picked up 3-year-old Aiden, who was in the middle of chemotherapy when it was taken in 2013, and the moment was captured by her husband, Zach. This photo touched thousands of hearts when TODAY viewer Ariane Grabill shared it with us this summer - a shot of her cradling her young son on the beach, both of their faces hidden in the embrace. ![]()
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