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Welcoming a New Child to Your Home

When you agree to open your home to a relative child, you are agreeing to so much more than providing a clean, safe bed and regular meals. You are agreeing to offer them an emotionally and physically safe place to heal from the challenges they encountered before...

How to Build Your Family’s Resilience

We all want the children we love to be able to face hard times and cope with them successfully. The ability to “bounce back” from life’s challenges can be part of a child’s naturally wired temperament. However, other kids may need help learning how to develop their...

How to Respond When a Child or Teen is Having a Meltdown

What do you do when your grandchild pitches a fit in Aisle 2 of the local grocery store? Or when your teenage niece screams at her sibling, slams doors, or kicks walls? It's a stressful moment for everyone, and your nerves are frayed while you figure out what to do....

Healing from Trauma/Neglect/Abuse

Tips to Help You Feed a Picky Eater

Tips to Help You Feed a Picky Eater

Caring for a child who has experienced loss, chaos, or neglect can be challenging. When that child’s trauma shows up in extremely picky eating, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and stressed. It’s important to remember that food issues are just as stressful for the kids...

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Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol and Drugs

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Challenging Behaviors

Understanding Why Kids Lie and Steal

Understanding Why Kids Lie and Steal

All kids tell lies or take something that doesn’t belong to them at some point in their childhood. But some children lie and steal often! As their caregiver, it’s stressful to live with these behaviors. You worry about the future and you want the behaviors to stop...

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Helping Kids Move More to Improve Behavior

Helping Kids Move More to Improve Behavior

The coming of spring is a beautiful transition from winter's darker, gloomier days. Your grandchild might have struggled over the winter months with cabin fever. Feeling antsy and acting out from their restlessness is not uncommon for kids, significantly if they were...

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Creating Schedules and Routines for Kids

Creating Schedules and Routines for Kids

Staying on task or keeping a regular routine can be challenging for any child. However, if your grandchild or loved one's child has been impacted by loss, neglect, or exposure to substances during their mother's pregnancy, that challenge is more significant. For kids...

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ADHD

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Disrupting Birth Order

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Helping A Child Heal from Sexual Abuse

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School Issues for Foster & Kinship Kids

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Technology/Internet and Our Kids

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Self-Care for Kinship and Foster Parents

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Relationship with Child’s Parent

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Working Together For the Good of the Child In Your Care

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