Childhood Trauma

Childhood Trauma

Finding and Enforcing Logical Consequences

Key Principles to Using Logical Consequences with Our Kids

Encouraging Resilience

More Research Shows that Our Presence Matters in Our Kids' Lives

Finding and Enforcing Logical Consequences

The Profound Benefits of Logical Consequences for Children Who Have Suffered Trauma

Finding and Enforcing Logical Consequences

Tapping Into the Power of Logical Consequences in Parenting

Strong Commitments and Healthy Boundaries

Why and How to Account for Trauma When Setting Boundaries for Our Kids

Building Relationships

Why We Have to Repeat Ourselves and How to Be More Effective

Encouraging Resilience

Participation in Team Sports May Boost Executive Function in Our Kids

Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There

How We Can Become the Mentor in Our Children’s Stories

Effects of Childhood Trauma

What is Childhood Trauma and Why Does the Definition Matter?

Building Relationships

6 Important Tips When Our Kids Make Bad Decisions

Building Relationships

10 Ways to Deal with Toxic Foster or Stepchildren

Encouraging Resilience

More Evidence That We Matter in Our Children’s Lives

Setting and Protecting Your Priorities

Five Reasons Foster and Stepparents Need Self Care

Media/Podcasts/Speaking

A Podcast to Start 2024

Mental Health Challenges

How to Help When Your Child Acts Like a Bully

Mental Health Challenges

Is There a Difference Between Conflict and Bullying and Does it Matter?

Encouraging Resilience

Strong Relationships May Be the Key to Resilience After Childhood Trauma

Encouraging Resilience

Seven Reasons to Help Children Master Small Tasks

Encouraging Resilience

Six Important Ways to Help Our Children Learn Resilience from Failure

Encouraging Resilience

12 Great Principles for Encouraging Problem Solving Skills in Children with Trauma

Encouraging Resilience

15 Principles for Helping Children With Trauma Succeed in School

Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There

How to Be The Person Who's Not Supposed to Be In Our Kids' Lives

Media/Podcasts/Speaking

Great Visit with the Toddcast Show

Media/Podcasts/Speaking

Christian Counseling Podcast

Effects of Childhood Trauma

New Research Suggests An Important Principle for Helping Children Deal With Trauma

Building Relationships

Four Important Principles for Letting Our Kids Bounce Off Us

Building Relationships

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

Foster Parenting Special Topics

Three Ways to Find Mental Health Help for Foster Kids

Encouraging Resilience

Six Ways to Help Our Children Stay Hopeful

Encouraging Resilience

Three Destructive Myths About Hope and How to Counter Them

Strong Commitments and Healthy Boundaries

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

Effects of Childhood Trauma

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

Building Relationships

How the 80/20 Rule Can Strengthen Your Family Relationships

Mental Health Challenges

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

Finding and Enforcing Logical Consequences

How to Motivate Our Children to Do Household Chores

Finding and Enforcing Logical Consequences

Why Our Kids Need Responsibility for Household Chores

Finding and Enforcing Logical Consequences

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

Encouraging Resilience

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

Encouraging Resilience

How to Empower Our Children to Create Their Own Happiness

Encouraging Resilience

More Research about Family Traits that Help Foster Resilience

Encouraging Resilience

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

Encouraging Resilience

7 Ways to Teach Our Kids to Be Self-Reliant

Encouraging Resilience

Why Accommodations Should Lead to Success, not Excuses for Failure

Encouraging Resilience

Four More Ways to Help Children Struggling with School

Building Relationships

Good Ways to Help a Child Struggling With School

Effects of Childhood Trauma

38 School Accommodations for Children Who Have Suffered Trauma

Effects of Childhood Trauma

6 Principles for Advocating for Trauma Sensitive Teaching for Your Kids

Encouraging Resilience

One Important Alternative When Your Teens Struggle With School

Strong Commitments and Healthy Boundaries

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

Strong Commitments and Healthy Boundaries

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

Effects of Childhood Trauma

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

Encouraging Resilience

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

Encouraging Resilience

How to Encourage Resilience Through Emotional Support

Encouraging Resilience

We Can Build Resilience By Providing Social Support

Encouraging Resilience

How to Build Resilience by Encouraging Our Kids to Take Risks

Building Relationships

A Common Reason Why Your Kids May Reject You

Encouraging Resilience

5 Principles for Teaching Teens to Be Independent

Encouraging Resilience

Positive Childhood Experiences Can Boost Resilience and Help Heal Trauma

Working with Biological Family

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

Effects of Childhood Trauma

Boys Who Have Suffered Trauma May Be Less Resilient Than Girls

Encouraging Resilience

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

Finding and Enforcing Logical Consequences

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

Encouraging Resilience

What Hobbits Can Teach Us About Being Good Mentors

Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There

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

Building Relationships

Three Principles for Helping Children You Don't Understand

Encouraging Resilience

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

Effects of Childhood Trauma

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

Media/Podcasts/Speaking

Join Me on Mothers of Misfits Podcast

Encouraging Resilience

Study: Positive Childhood Experiences Can Counterbalance Adverse Ones

Encouraging Resilience

How to Help Our Children Change Bad Habits

Encouraging Resilience

Why and How to Help Our Kids Find Mentors

Mental Health Challenges

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

Building Relationships

We Need to Be Careful What We Label Child Abuse

Be Prepared for Holiday Sadness From Your Foster or Step Children

Effects of Childhood Trauma

Adoption is Wonderful, But It Doesn’t Cure Trauma

Encouraging Resilience

Our Children's Trauma Does Not Control Their Future

Encouraging Resilience

One Important Way to Show Children How to Resist Bullying

Effects of Childhood Trauma

How to Teach Empathy to Children with Trauma

Building Relationships

How to Respond When Your Child Is the Bully

Power of Plan B Parenting

Another Reason That Step Parents Are Important

Encouraging Resilience

Ways to Build Resilience in Young Adults

Encouraging Resilience

Ways to Help Build Resilience

Encouraging Resilience

Building Resilience by Building Relationships

Effects of Childhood Trauma

How to Help Our Children Untangle Their Emotions

Encouraging Resilience

The Trap of Blaming Other People

Building Relationships

Don't Forget About the Quiet No-Problem Child

Effects of Childhood Trauma

Important Principles of Accommodating Childhood Trauma

Effects of Childhood Trauma

Insisting on Accommodations for Children With Trauma

Foster Parenting Special Topics

The Challenges of Parenting Gifted Foster Children

Strong Commitments and Healthy Boundaries

Can You Make The Necessary Commitment?

Encouraging Resilience

Can We Find Anti-Bullying Programs that Work?

Working with Biological Family

The Importance of Sibling Connections in Foster Care

Encouraging Resilience

Using the ADA to Help Our Children Cope with the Pandemic

Effects of Childhood Trauma

How to Respond When Our Children's Memories are Wrong

Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There

"The Supreme Efficacy of Pity" and Kindness

Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There

"This Task Is Appointed for You"

Encouraging Resilience

Resilience and the Power of Connections

Foster Parenting Special Topics

Surviving — And Thriving — During the Holidays With Foster Children

Surviving – And Thriving – During the Holidays

Encouraging Resilience

We Cannot Let Our Children’s Trauma Define Them