Adoption/Foster Care > Parents & Professionals

A Guide for Grandparents This book addresses the legal, educational, parenting and social challenges of parenting the second time around. With chapters on grandparent and grandchild emotions, special needs, health and self-care, as well as an interactive Workbook section, this book is the definitive book for the rising numbers of grandparents who find themselves raising their grandchildren.

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A Survival Guide for Raising a Second Family If you're among the millions of grandparents raising grandchildren today, you need information, support, and practical guidance you can count on to keep your family strong. This is the book for you. Learn effective strategies to help you cope with the stresses of parenting the second time around, care for vulnerable grandkids and set boundaries with their often-troubled parents, and navigate the maze of government aid, court proceedings, and special education. Wise, honest, moving stories show how numerous other grandparents are surviving and thriving in their new roles. Updated throughout, and reflecting current laws and policies affecting families, the second edition features new discussions of kids' technology use and other timely issues.

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A Guide to Healing Trauma and Thriving with Your Foster or Adopted Child Children who have been adopted and/or shuttled through the foster-care system experience trauma at a much higher rate than other kids, which can make it difficult for them to trust, relax, regulate their emotions, and connect with their new families. As a parent, learning how to heal attachment trauma, attune to your child's needs, identify triggers, and create felt safety is essential to providing the loving, supportive, and stable home they need to thrive. Written for parents of adopted and foster kids of all ages, this book offers resources for handling common concerns like sleep issues, food sensitivities, anger, fear, and reactivity. It also provides guidance on navigating transracial adoptions, working through parents' own hang-ups, and recognizing signs of developmental and psychological conditions.

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Trauma-Informed Guidance and Action ChartsTraumatized children rarely respond to traditional parenting strategies, but once you understand the impact of trauma on children you can master 'developmental re-parenting' strategies which do work - by validating their feelings, boosting self-esteem and encouraging open and honest conversations. The book includes 35 action charts to addresses some of the very hardest challenges for parents and carers - from inappropriate sexualzed behaviour and over-familiarity with strangers to tantrums, food issues, and deception. Written by an experienced adoptive parent who is also a qualified social worker with expertise in trauma-informed parenting.

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This book offers simple advice to parents of children who find it difficult to attach and bond -- whether following adoption, divorce or other difficult experiences. The Author describes how to use the thinking on attachment in your daily parenting. She reveals sensory techniques to help children bond and explains why routines like mealtimes and play time are so important in helping children to attach. The book offers positive ideas for responding to immediate crises like difficult behaviour and meltdowns, but importantly also offers longer-term strategies to help children to develop the skills they need to cope as they grow up -- the ability to plan, concentrate and be in control of their emotions.

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This classic text provides practical parenting strategies designed to enhance children's happiness and emotional health. It explains what attachment is, how grief and trauma can affect children's emotional development, and how to improve attachment, respect, cooperation and trust. Parenting techniques are matched to children's emotional needs and stages, and checklists are included to help parents assess how their child is doing at each developmental stage. The book covers a wide range of issues including international adoption, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, and learning disabilities, and combines sound theory and direct advice with case examples throughout.

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Develop Confidence, Strength, Resilience on the Path to Adulthood This workbook teaches powerful self-resiliency, mindfulness, and somatic skills to help you explore your unique identity as an adopted teen. You'll find tools to manage loss and grief, and activities that include checklists, contemplation, skill-building, and journaling to help you chronicle present, past, and future relationships with both your adoptive and birth parents.

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