Preparing Your Home for Foster Care
Deciding to open your heart and home to foster children is a life-changing decision. Once the decision is made, you’ll need to navigate some paperwork and screening steps. One of these is completing a foster care home study. Its primary goal is assessing your home to...
Tips to Defuse Sibling Rivalry in Your Foster Family
One minute they’re getting along and the next minute they’re at each others’ throats. Conflicts between brothers and sisters, otherwise known as sibling rivalry, erupt in every home. But introducing foster kids to the family mix intensify the hitting, grabbing,...
Sleep’s Importance to Your Child’s Learning and Growth
We all need sleep. There’s no arguing that. But for children and teenagers, sleep plays a vital role in physical and mental growth and development. Since nighttime has often been a scary time full of trauma and unknowns, lots of foster and adoptive kids have trouble...
Get A Grip on Your Foster or Adoptive Child’s Early Trauma
As a foster or adoptive parent, you have both the responsibility and the privilege to help your child identify, navigate, and heal from trauma. To do that, you’ll need to roll up your sleeves and do some heavy lifting, including becoming a serious student of trauma....Gallery
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