Childhood Trauma

Childhood Trauma

Childhood Trauma

Four Important Principles for Letting Our Kids Bounce Off Us

Childhood Trauma

What It Means to Let Our Kids Bounce Off Us and Why It's Important

Foster Parenting

Three Ways to Find Mental Health Help for Foster Kids

Childhood Trauma

Six Ways to Help Our Children Stay Hopeful

Childhood Trauma

Three Destructive Myths About Hope and How to Counter Them

Parenting Techniques

Why We Need to Love Our Kids Unconditionally and Set Boundaries for Them

Childhood Trauma

What If Our Kids' Bad Habits Are Actually Out-of-Place Skill Sets?

Parenting Techniques

How the 80/20 Rule Can Strengthen Your Family Relationships

What Research Teaches About How to Help Our Children Struggling with Depression

Parenting Techniques

How to Motivate Our Children to Do Household Chores

Parenting Techniques

Why Our Kids Need Responsibility for Household Chores

Parenting Techniques

Why Do I Have to Constantly Repeat Myself With My Kids?

Why We Need to Resist Letting Our Children Think of Themselves as Victims

How to Empower Our Children to Create Their Own Happiness

More Research about Family Traits that Help Foster Resilience

How to Build Our Kids' Resilience By Helping Them Change Their Self-Defeating Narratives

Why Accommodations Should Lead to Success, not Excuses for Failure

Parenting Techniques

Four More Ways to Help Children Struggling with School

Parenting Techniques

Good Ways to Help a Child Struggling With School

Parenting Techniques

38 School Accommodations for Children Who Have Suffered Trauma

Parenting Techniques

6 Principles for Advocating for Trauma Sensitive Teaching for Your Kids

Parenting Techniques

One Important Alternative When Your Teens Struggle With School

Parenting Techniques

How to Let Our Kids Know We See Them Clearly and Love Them Unconditionally (part 2)

Parenting Techniques

How to Let Our Kids Know We See Them Clearly and Love Them Unconditionally (part 1)

Why It's Easy to Repeat the Cycle of Trauma and How to Stop

The Best Way We Can Encourage Resilience and Build Self-Esteem

How to Encourage Resilience Through Emotional Support

We Can Build Resilience By Providing Social Support

How to Build Resilience by Encouraging Our Kids to Take Risks

Childhood Trauma

A Common Reason Why Your Kids May Reject You

Parenting Techniques

5 Principles for Teaching Teens to Be Independent

Childhood Trauma

Positive Childhood Experiences Can Boost Resilience and Help Heal Trauma

Parenting Techniques

Why and How To Keep Our Kids Connected to Their Biological Parents

Why Empowering Our Children is Not the Same As "Blaming the Victim"

Parenting Techniques

Why We Should Give Kids More Control Over Their Lives and How to Do It

Parenting Techniques

What Hobbits Can Teach Us About Being Good Mentors

Parenting Techniques

Why Raising Other People's Children Requires That We Become Good Mentors

Resilience or Self-Esteem -- Which Comes First in Recovering from Trauma?

Parenting Techniques

Does It Matter Whether Our Kids Can't or Won't Behave?

Join Me on Mothers of Misfits Podcast

Study: Positive Childhood Experiences Can Counterbalance Adverse Ones

Parenting Techniques

How to Help Our Children Change Bad Habits

Parenting Techniques

Why and How to Help Our Kids Find Mentors

Mental Health Research

Attention Disorders May Be A Bigger Challenge for Abused Children Than Anger Issues

Be Prepared for Holiday Sadness From Your Foster or Step Children

Childhood Trauma

Our Children's Trauma Does Not Control Their Future

One Important Way to Show Children How to Resist Bullying

How to Teach Empathy to Children with Trauma

Another Reason That Step Parents Are Important

Ways to Build Resilience in Young Adults

Ways to Help Build Resilience

Building Resilience by Building Relationships

Childhood Trauma

How to Help Our Children Untangle Their Emotions

Childhood Trauma

The Trap of Blaming Other People

Parenting Techniques

Don't Forget About the Quiet No-Problem Child

Foster Parenting

Important Principles of Accommodating Childhood Trauma

Childhood Trauma

Insisting on Accommodations for Children With Trauma

Foster Parenting

The Challenges of Parenting Gifted Foster Children

Parenting Techniques

Can You Make The Necessary Commitment?

Can We Find Anti-Bullying Programs that Work?

Parenting Techniques

The Importance of Sibling Connections in Foster Care

Using the ADA to Help Our Children Cope with the Pandemic

Adverse Childhood Experiences

How to Respond When Our Children's Memories are Wrong

Parenting Techniques

"The Supreme Efficacy of Pity" and Kindness

Parenting Techniques

"This Task Is Appointed for You"

Adverse Childhood Experiences

Resilience and the Power of Connections

Foster Parenting

Surviving — And Thriving — During the Holidays With Foster Children

Surviving – And Thriving – During the Holidays

We Cannot Let Our Children’s Trauma Define Them

Overcoming the Self-Limiting Stories That Our Children Tell Themselves

Parenting Children with Trauma: Countering ACEs

Adverse Childhood Experiences

Parenting Children with Trauma: Effects of Adverse Experiences

What to Do When You Don’t Like Your Child

Parenting Techniques

What To Do When Your Child Does Not Want You There

Helping Children Recover by Being a Safe Space

Encouraging Resilience

Countering Adverse Childhood Experiences

Adverse Childhood Experiences

Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences

Is It Bullying or Just Conflict?