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How to Help Kids Aging Out of Foster Care
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Five Ways to Deal with Being Overlooked on Mothers’ and Fathers’ Days
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Foster Parents Often Feel Alone, But Three Ideas Can Help
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Four Important Reasons to Be a Foster Parent
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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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Why and How to Have to Have Difficult Conversations With Our Children
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Why We Need to Love Our Kids Unconditionally and Set Boundaries for Them
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Self Care
The Best Reason To Keep Trying With Our Kids
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Podcast
Check Out My Conversation with Family Twist
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Childhood Trauma
What If Our Kids' Bad Habits Are Actually Out-of-Place Skill Sets?
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Mental Health
What Research Teaches About How to Help Our Children Struggling with Depression
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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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Do You Feel Like Your Household is Chaotic? Here’s How to Cope!
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Foster Care
The Plight of Kids Aging Out of Foster Care
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Four Ways to Be the Mentor, Not the Villain, in our Children's Stories
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Figuring Out Where We Fit In Our Children's Stories
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Resilience
How to Empower Our Children to Create Their Own Happiness
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How to Accept that We Cannot Control Our Children's Decisions
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Five Principles for Parents to Regroup and Recharge for the New Year
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Take Time to Enjoy the Opportunities We Have With Our Children
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Self Care
The Importance of Taking One Step at a Time
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Five Things Theater and Movies Can Teach Us about Dealing with Family Drama
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Holidays
How To Cope When Your Children Reject You
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Holidays
How Communities Can Help Foster Children Cope With the Holidays
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Three Important Things to Remember About Christmas Presents for Your Child's Biological Parents
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Why and How to Help Your Kids Stay in Touch with Biological Family During the Holidays
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Media Appearances
Discussing Bonus and Foster Families With Circle 31
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Foster Parenting
Why and How to Help Our Kids Deal With the Unavoidable Loss in Adoption
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Seven More Ways to Manage Holiday Stress
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Seven Ways to Help Manage Stress Over the Holidays
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Why and How We Need to Manage Our Expectations for the Holidays
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Resilience
More Research about Family Traits that Help Foster Resilience
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Resilience
7 Things You Can Do if Your Child is Suffering from Anxiety
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Resilience
How to Build Our Kids' Resilience By Helping Them Change Their Self-Defeating Narratives
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Bullying
Is There A Difference Between Bullying and Conflict and Does It Matter?
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7 Ways to Teach Our Kids to Be Self-Reliant
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Foster Parenting
25 Techniques for Foster Parents Who Work Full Time
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How to Parent Children From Different Faith Traditions
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Foster Parenting
Five Principles for Successful Single Foster Parenting
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Self Care
How Healthy Boundaries Can Be Your Best Self-Care
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Self Care
Five Principles of Effective Self-Care for Foster and Bonus Parents
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Foster Parenting
Foster and Adoptive Parents, Join Us at the CAFO Summit
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One Important Alternative When Your Teens Struggle With School
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How to Let Our Kids Know We See Them Clearly and Love Them Unconditionally (part 2)
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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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Foster Parenting
Five Ways that Your Organization Can Support Foster Families
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Childhood Trauma
A Common Reason Why Your Kids May Reject You
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Foster Parenting
How the System Loses Good Foster Parents
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How Foster Parents Can Protect Themselves Against Unfounded Allegations
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Foster Parenting
Why and How to Become a Foster Parent One Step at a Time
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Foster Parenting
7 Important Things to Consider if You Are Thinking About Becoming A Foster Parent
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Why and How To Keep Our Kids Connected to Their Biological Parents
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Foster Parenting
Five Ways You Can Help Foster Parents
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Speaking Engagements
Join Me at the Renew Retreat in Raleigh, NC
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Resilience
Boys Who Have Suffered Trauma May Be Less Resilient Than Girls
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Resilience
Embrace the Power of Being Our Child's Plan B
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Speaking Engagements
Join me in Wisconsin on Saturday
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Parenting Techniques
How to Remain Sane When Your Adult Children Still Live at Home
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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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Three Principles for Helping Children You Don't Understand
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Does It Matter Whether Our Kids Can't or Won't Behave?
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How to Start Planning for Spring Break
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Resilience
More Encouraging Evidence that Positive Experiences Can Counteract Traumatic Experiences
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Foster Parenting
Why Respite Care is An Important Resource for Foster Parents
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Foster Parenting
Important Ways to Meet the Challenges of Single Parenting
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Podcast
Join Me on Mothers of Misfits Podcast
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Parenting Techniques
Why and How to Help Our Children Find Groups They Enjoy
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Resilience
Study: Positive Childhood Experiences Can Counterbalance Adverse Ones
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How to Help Our Children Change Bad Habits
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Foster Parenting
What I Wish I Had Known About Foster Parenting
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Four Ways to Limit Parenting Stress
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Foster Parenting
Check Out the Latest Review of My Book
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Podcast
A Conversation with Justice for Orphans
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Parenting Techniques
Case Study: We Need Boundaries to Protect Our Entire Family
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Parenting Techniques
We Need to Be Careful What We Label Child Abuse
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Holidays
How to Celebrate with Children of Different Faith Traditions
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Holidays
Lessons About the Holidays I Learned At Walt Disney World
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Holidays
How to Help Your New Family Adjust to the Holidays
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Holidays
Be Prepared for Holiday Sadness From Your Foster or Step Children
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Holidays
Should We Get Presents for Our Kids' Biological Parents?
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Foster Parenting
Adoption is Wonderful, But It Doesn’t Cure Trauma
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Parenting Techniques
We Need to Be Grateful for Our Kids, and Let Them Know
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Step-parenting
Four Tips for Decreasing Holiday Stress
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Parenting Techniques
It's Important to Our Kids When We Show Up
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Parenting Techniques
It's Never too Early to Start Planning for the Holidays
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Foster Parenting
Five Ways to Help Foster Families
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Foster Parenting
How To Decide If You Want to Be a Foster Parent
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Parenting Techniques
What It Means To Recognize Our Children Have Agency
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Childhood Trauma
Our Children's Trauma Does Not Control Their Future
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Parenting Techniques
How To Reduce Burnout By Letting Go of Decisions
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Parenting Techniques
One Key Reason that We Burn Out as Parents
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Resilience
Ways to Build Resilience in Young Adults
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