Foster Parenting

Foster Parenting

Foster Parenting

How to Help Kids Aging Out of Foster Care

Parenting Techniques

How To Keep a Good Relationship with Adult Children Still Living at Home

Parenting Techniques

Five Ways to Deal with Being Overlooked on Mothers’ and Fathers’ Days

Foster Parenting

Foster Parents Often Feel Alone, But Three Ideas Can Help

Foster Parenting

Four Important Reasons to Be a Foster Parent

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 and How to Have to Have Difficult Conversations With Our Children

Parenting Techniques

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

The Best Reason To Keep Trying With Our Kids

Check Out My Conversation with Family Twist

Childhood Trauma

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

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?

Parenting Techniques

Do You Feel Like Your Household is Chaotic? Here’s How to Cope!

The Plight of Kids Aging Out of Foster Care

Parenting Techniques

Four Ways to Be the Mentor, Not the Villain, in our Children's Stories

Parenting Techniques

Figuring Out Where We Fit In Our Children's Stories

How to Empower Our Children to Create Their Own Happiness

Parenting Techniques

How to Accept that We Cannot Control Our Children's Decisions

Parenting Techniques

Five Principles for Parents to Regroup and Recharge for the New Year

Parenting Techniques

Take Time to Enjoy the Opportunities We Have With Our Children

The Importance of Taking One Step at a Time

Parenting Techniques

Five Things Theater and Movies Can Teach Us about Dealing with Family Drama

How To Cope When Your Children Reject You

How Communities Can Help Foster Children Cope With the Holidays

Three Important Things to Remember About Christmas Presents for Your Child's Biological Parents

Why and How to Help Your Kids Stay in Touch with Biological Family During the Holidays

Media Appearances

Discussing Bonus and Foster Families With Circle 31

Foster Parenting

Why and How to Help Our Kids Deal With the Unavoidable Loss in Adoption

Parenting Techniques

Seven More Ways to Manage Holiday Stress

Parenting Techniques

Seven Ways to Help Manage Stress Over the Holidays

Parenting Techniques

Why and How We Need to Manage Our Expectations for the Holidays

More Research about Family Traits that Help Foster Resilience

7 Things You Can Do if Your Child is Suffering from Anxiety

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

Is There A Difference Between Bullying and Conflict and Does It Matter?

Parenting Techniques

7 Ways to Teach Our Kids to Be Self-Reliant

Foster Parenting

25 Techniques for Foster Parents Who Work Full Time

Parenting Techniques

How to Parent Children From Different Faith Traditions

Foster Parenting

Five Principles for Successful Single Foster Parenting

How Healthy Boundaries Can Be Your Best Self-Care

Five Principles of Effective Self-Care for Foster and Bonus Parents

Foster Parenting

Foster and Adoptive Parents, Join Us at the CAFO Summit

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

Foster Parenting

Five Ways that Your Organization Can Support Foster Families

Childhood Trauma

A Common Reason Why Your Kids May Reject You

Foster Parenting

How the System Loses Good Foster Parents

Foster Parenting

How Foster Parents Can Protect Themselves Against Unfounded Allegations

Foster Parenting

Why and How to Become a Foster Parent One Step at a Time

Foster Parenting

7 Important Things to Consider if You Are Thinking About Becoming A Foster Parent

Parenting Techniques

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

Foster Parenting

Five Ways You Can Help Foster Parents

Speaking Engagements

Join Me at the Renew Retreat in Raleigh, NC

Boys Who Have Suffered Trauma May Be Less Resilient Than Girls

Embrace the Power of Being Our Child's Plan B

Speaking Engagements

Join me in Wisconsin on Saturday

Parenting Techniques

How to Remain Sane When Your Adult Children Still Live at Home

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

Parenting Techniques

Three Principles for Helping Children You Don't Understand

Parenting Techniques

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

Parenting Techniques

How to Start Planning for Spring Break

More Encouraging Evidence that Positive Experiences Can Counteract Traumatic Experiences

Foster Parenting

Why Respite Care is An Important Resource for Foster Parents

Foster Parenting

Important Ways to Meet the Challenges of Single Parenting

Join Me on Mothers of Misfits Podcast

Parenting Techniques

Why and How to Help Our Children Find Groups They Enjoy

Study: Positive Childhood Experiences Can Counterbalance Adverse Ones

Parenting Techniques

How to Help Our Children Change Bad Habits

Foster Parenting

What I Wish I Had Known About Foster Parenting

Parenting Techniques

Four Ways to Limit Parenting Stress

Foster Parenting

Check Out the Latest Review of My Book

A Conversation with Justice for Orphans

Parenting Techniques

Case Study: We Need Boundaries to Protect Our Entire Family

Parenting Techniques

We Need to Be Careful What We Label Child Abuse

How to Celebrate with Children of Different Faith Traditions

Lessons About the Holidays I Learned At Walt Disney World

How to Help Your New Family Adjust to the Holidays

Be Prepared for Holiday Sadness From Your Foster or Step Children

Should We Get Presents for Our Kids' Biological Parents?

Foster Parenting

Adoption is Wonderful, But It Doesn’t Cure Trauma

Parenting Techniques

We Need to Be Grateful for Our Kids, and Let Them Know

Four Tips for Decreasing Holiday Stress

Parenting Techniques

It's Important to Our Kids When We Show Up

Parenting Techniques

It's Never too Early to Start Planning for the Holidays

Foster Parenting

Five Ways to Help Foster Families

Foster Parenting

How To Decide If You Want to Be a Foster Parent

Parenting Techniques

What It Means To Recognize Our Children Have Agency

Childhood Trauma

Our Children's Trauma Does Not Control Their Future

Parenting Techniques

How To Reduce Burnout By Letting Go of Decisions

Parenting Techniques

One Key Reason that We Burn Out as Parents

Ways to Build Resilience in Young Adults