Resilience

Resilience

Effects of Childhood Trauma

Trauma May Rewire a Child's Brain, but Positive Support Can Help It Heal

Effects of Childhood Trauma

How Trauma Affects Our Kids and Our Role in Helping Them Heal

Effects of Childhood Trauma

Three Principles Essential to Understanding Trauma in Our Children

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

Encouraging Resilience

Another Study Shows Important Benefits from Risky Play

Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There

Six Important Lessons We Can Learn from Fairy Tales

Working with Biological Family

New Study Indicates Parent-Child Relationships are Important for Later Flourishing

Setting and Protecting Your Priorities

Why It's Best for Our Kids to Make Them Our Last Priority

Encouraging Resilience

Participation in Team Sports May Boost Executive Function in Our Kids

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

Mental Health Challenges

How to Help When Your Child Acts Like a Bully

Mental Health Challenges

How to Help Your Child Who Is Being Bullied

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

Why and How We Should Quit Taking Responsibility for Our Kids’ Happiness

Encouraging Resilience

The Latest Science Says Our Children Need Less Adult Supervision

Encouraging Resilience

Six Important Ways to Help Our Children Learn Resilience from Failure

Encouraging Resilience

Growth Mindset Study Reveals An Important Lesson for Parents

Encouraging Resilience

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

Media/Podcasts/Speaking

Discussing Resilience with Positive Talk Radio

Encouraging Resilience

15 Principles for Helping Children With Trauma Succeed in School

Mental Health Challenges

Our Kids May Need Therapy That Doesn't Concentrate on Memories of Trauma

Effects of Childhood Trauma

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

Power of Plan B Parenting

In Praise of Overlooked Foster and Stepfathers

Building Relationships

Four Important Principles for Letting Our Kids Bounce Off Us

Mental Health Challenges

Is Less Supervision the Solution to Childhood Depression?

Encouraging Resilience

An Object Lesson in How to Prepare Children to Handle a Crisis

Encouraging Resilience

Three Ways to Help Our Kids Learn Work Skills

Media/Podcasts/Speaking

The Counter Culture Mom Show Looks At Commitment, Boundaries, and Unconditional Love

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?

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

Building Relationships

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

Foster Parenting Special Topics

The Plight of Kids Aging Out of Foster Care

Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There

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

Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There

Figuring Out Where We Fit In Our Children's Stories

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

Building Relationships

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

Media/Podcasts/Speaking

Discussing Resilience and Gratitude With the Transacting ValYou podcast

Encouraging Resilience

More Research about Family Traits that Help Foster Resilience

Mental Health Challenges

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

Encouraging Resilience

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

Mental Health Challenges

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

Encouraging Resilience

7 Ways to Teach Our Kids to Be Self-Reliant

Mental Health Challenges

Are We Prescribing Too Many Medications for Normal Teen Problems?

Encouraging Resilience

Four More Ways to Help Children Struggling with School

Building Relationships

Good Ways to Help a Child Struggling With School

Encouraging Resilience

One Important Alternative When Your Teens Struggle With School

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

Encouraging Resilience

New Study Says Risky Play May Be Good for Our Children

Media/Podcasts/Speaking

Join Us at the National Foster Parents' Association Virtual Conference

Building Relationships

How and Why Fathers are Important to Our Kids

Encouraging Resilience

5 Important Things to Remember about Our Teens and Summer Jobs

Encouraging Resilience

5 Principles for Teaching Teens to Be Independent

Encouraging Resilience

Positive Childhood Experiences Can Boost Resilience and Help Heal Trauma

Encouraging Resilience

Lowering Our Expectations May Be the Best Way to Lower Our Kids’ Stress

Effects of Childhood Trauma

Boys Who Have Suffered Trauma May Be Less Resilient Than Girls

Power of Plan B Parenting

Embrace the Power of Being Our Child's Plan B

Media/Podcasts/Speaking

Join me in Wisconsin on Saturday

Building Relationships

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

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

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?

Encouraging Resilience

More Encouraging Evidence that Positive Experiences Can Counteract Traumatic Experiences

Encouraging Resilience

How to Use History to Help Our Kids Learn Resilience

Encouraging Resilience

Why and How to Help Our Children Find Groups They Enjoy

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

Foster Parenting Special Topics

Five Ways to Help Foster Families

Encouraging Resilience

Our Children's Trauma Does Not Control Their Future

Effects of Childhood Trauma

How to Teach Empathy to Children with Trauma

Encouraging Resilience

How to Help When Your Child is Being Bullied

Setting and Protecting Your Priorities

One Key Reason that We Burn Out as Parents

Encouraging Resilience

Ways to Build Resilience in Young Adults

Setting and Protecting Your Priorities

Less-Than-Perfect Parenting Is Good For Our Kids

Encouraging Resilience

Ways to Help Build Resilience

Encouraging Resilience

Building Resilience by Building Relationships

Finding and Enforcing Logical Consequences

How to Use Logical Consequences with Children

Encouraging Resilience

The Trap of Blaming Other People

Encouraging Resilience

Family Resilience Traits May Help Prevent Bullying

Encouraging Resilience

Embrace the Power of "And"

Encouraging Resilience

Building Resilience by Connecting to Family Stories

Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There

How To Be The Mentor Rather Than The Villain in Your Family Story, Part 2

Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There

How To Be The Mentor Rather Than The Villain in Your Family Story, Part 1