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Four Important Principles for Letting Our Kids Bounce Off Us
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Childhood Trauma
What It Means to Let Our Kids Bounce Off Us and Why It's Important
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Foster Parenting
Three Ways to Find Mental Health Help for Foster Kids
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Childhood Trauma
Six Ways to Help Our Children Stay Hopeful
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Childhood Trauma
Three Destructive Myths About Hope and How to Counter Them
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Parenting Techniques
Why We Need to Love Our Kids Unconditionally and Set Boundaries for Them
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Childhood Trauma
What If Our Kids' Bad Habits Are Actually Out-of-Place Skill Sets?
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Parenting Techniques
How the 80/20 Rule Can Strengthen Your Family Relationships
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Mental Health
What Research Teaches About How to Help Our Children Struggling with Depression
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Parenting Techniques
How to Motivate Our Children to Do Household Chores
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Why Our Kids Need Responsibility for Household Chores
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Why Do I Have to Constantly Repeat Myself With My Kids?
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Resilience
Why We Need to Resist Letting Our Children Think of Themselves as Victims
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Resilience
How to Empower Our Children to Create Their Own Happiness
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Resilience
More Research about Family Traits that Help Foster Resilience
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Resilience
How to Build Our Kids' Resilience By Helping Them Change Their Self-Defeating Narratives
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Resilience
Why Accommodations Should Lead to Success, not Excuses for Failure
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Parenting Techniques
Four More Ways to Help Children Struggling with School
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Parenting Techniques
Good Ways to Help a Child Struggling With School
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38 School Accommodations for Children Who Have Suffered Trauma
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6 Principles for Advocating for Trauma Sensitive Teaching for Your Kids
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Parenting Techniques
One Important Alternative When Your Teens Struggle With School
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Parenting Techniques
How to Let Our Kids Know We See Them Clearly and Love Them Unconditionally (part 2)
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Parenting Techniques
How to Let Our Kids Know We See Them Clearly and Love Them Unconditionally (part 1)
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Step-parenting
Why It's Easy to Repeat the Cycle of Trauma and How to Stop
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Resilience
The Best Way We Can Encourage Resilience and Build Self-Esteem
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Resilience
How to Encourage Resilience Through Emotional Support
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Resilience
We Can Build Resilience By Providing Social Support
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Resilience
How to Build Resilience by Encouraging Our Kids to Take Risks
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Childhood Trauma
A Common Reason Why Your Kids May Reject You
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Parenting Techniques
5 Principles for Teaching Teens to Be Independent
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Childhood Trauma
Positive Childhood Experiences Can Boost Resilience and Help Heal Trauma
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Parenting Techniques
Why and How To Keep Our Kids Connected to Their Biological Parents
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Resilience
Why Empowering Our Children is Not the Same As "Blaming the Victim"
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Parenting Techniques
Why We Should Give Kids More Control Over Their Lives and How to Do It
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What Hobbits Can Teach Us About Being Good Mentors
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Why Raising Other People's Children Requires That We Become Good Mentors
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Resilience
Resilience or Self-Esteem -- Which Comes First in Recovering from Trauma?
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Parenting Techniques
Does It Matter Whether Our Kids Can't or Won't Behave?
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Podcast
Join Me on Mothers of Misfits Podcast
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Resilience
Study: Positive Childhood Experiences Can Counterbalance Adverse Ones
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Parenting Techniques
How to Help Our Children Change Bad Habits
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Parenting Techniques
Why and How to Help Our Kids Find Mentors
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Mental Health Research
Attention Disorders May Be A Bigger Challenge for Abused Children Than Anger Issues
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Holidays
Be Prepared for Holiday Sadness From Your Foster or Step Children
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Childhood Trauma
Our Children's Trauma Does Not Control Their Future
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Resilience
One Important Way to Show Children How to Resist Bullying
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Bullying
How to Teach Empathy to Children with Trauma
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Step-parenting
Another Reason That Step Parents Are Important
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Resilience
Ways to Build Resilience in Young Adults
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Resilience
Ways to Help Build Resilience
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Resilience
Building Resilience by Building Relationships
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Childhood Trauma
How to Help Our Children Untangle Their Emotions
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Childhood Trauma
The Trap of Blaming Other People
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Parenting Techniques
Don't Forget About the Quiet No-Problem Child
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Foster Parenting
Important Principles of Accommodating Childhood Trauma
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Childhood Trauma
Insisting on Accommodations for Children With Trauma
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Foster Parenting
The Challenges of Parenting Gifted Foster Children
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Parenting Techniques
Can You Make The Necessary Commitment?
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Bullying
Can We Find Anti-Bullying Programs that Work?
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Parenting Techniques
The Importance of Sibling Connections in Foster Care
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Mental Health
Using the ADA to Help Our Children Cope with the Pandemic
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Adverse Childhood Experiences
How to Respond When Our Children's Memories are Wrong
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Parenting Techniques
"The Supreme Efficacy of Pity" and Kindness
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Parenting Techniques
"This Task Is Appointed for You"
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Adverse Childhood Experiences
Resilience and the Power of Connections
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Foster Parenting
Surviving — And Thriving — During the Holidays With Foster Children
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Step-parenting
Surviving – And Thriving – During the Holidays
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Resilience
We Cannot Let Our Children’s Trauma Define Them
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Resilience
Overcoming the Self-Limiting Stories That Our Children Tell Themselves
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Resilience
Parenting Children with Trauma: Countering ACEs
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Adverse Childhood Experiences
Parenting Children with Trauma: Effects of Adverse Experiences
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Parenting Tips
What to Do When You Don’t Like Your Child
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Parenting Techniques
What To Do When Your Child Does Not Want You There
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Resilience
Helping Children Recover by Being a Safe Space
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Resilience
Encouraging Resilience
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Resilience
Countering Adverse Childhood Experiences
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Adverse Childhood Experiences
Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences
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Bullying
Is It Bullying or Just Conflict?
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