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Encouraging Resilience
More Evidence That We Matter in Our Children’s Lives
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Setting and Protecting Your Priorities
Five Reasons Foster and Stepparents Need Self Care
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Mental Health Challenges
How to Help When Your Child Acts Like a Bully
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Mental Health Challenges
How to Help Your Child Who Is Being Bullied
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Mental Health Challenges
Is There a Difference Between Conflict and Bullying and Does it Matter?
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Encouraging Resilience
Strong Relationships May Be the Key to Resilience After Childhood Trauma
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Encouraging Resilience
Seven Reasons to Help Children Master Small Tasks
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Encouraging Resilience
Why and How We Should Quit Taking Responsibility for Our Kids’ Happiness
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Encouraging Resilience
The Latest Science Says Our Children Need Less Adult Supervision
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Encouraging Resilience
Six Important Ways to Help Our Children Learn Resilience from Failure
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Encouraging Resilience
Growth Mindset Study Reveals An Important Lesson for Parents
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Encouraging Resilience
12 Great Principles for Encouraging Problem Solving Skills in Children with Trauma
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Media/Podcasts/Speaking
Discussing Resilience with Positive Talk Radio
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Encouraging Resilience
15 Principles for Helping Children With Trauma Succeed in School
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Mental Health Challenges
Our Kids May Need Therapy That Doesn't Concentrate on Memories of Trauma
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Effects of Childhood Trauma
New Research Suggests An Important Principle for Helping Children Deal With Trauma
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Power of Plan B Parenting
In Praise of Overlooked Foster and Stepfathers
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Building Relationships
Four Important Principles for Letting Our Kids Bounce Off Us
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Mental Health Challenges
Is Less Supervision the Solution to Childhood Depression?
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Encouraging Resilience
An Object Lesson in How to Prepare Children to Handle a Crisis
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Three Ways to Help Our Kids Learn Work Skills
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The Counter Culture Mom Show Looks At Commitment, Boundaries, and Unconditional Love
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Encouraging Resilience
Six Ways to Help Our Children Stay Hopeful
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Three Destructive Myths About Hope and How to Counter Them
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Strong Commitments and Healthy Boundaries
Why We Need to Love Our Kids Unconditionally and Set Boundaries for Them
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Effects of Childhood Trauma
What If Our Kids' Bad Habits Are Actually Out-of-Place Skill Sets?
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Mental Health Challenges
What Research Teaches About How to Help Our Children Struggling with Depression
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Finding and Enforcing Logical Consequences
How to Motivate Our Children to Do Household Chores
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Finding and Enforcing Logical Consequences
Why Our Kids Need Responsibility for Household Chores
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Building Relationships
Do You Feel Like Your Household is Chaotic? Here’s How to Cope!
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Foster Parenting Special Topics
The Plight of Kids Aging Out of Foster Care
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Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There
Four Ways to Be the Mentor, Not the Villain, in our Children's Stories
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Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There
Figuring Out Where We Fit In Our Children's Stories
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Encouraging Resilience
Why We Need to Resist Letting Our Children Think of Themselves as Victims
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Encouraging Resilience
How to Empower Our Children to Create Their Own Happiness
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Building Relationships
How to Accept that We Cannot Control Our Children's Decisions
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Discussing Resilience and Gratitude With the Transacting ValYou podcast
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Encouraging Resilience
More Research about Family Traits that Help Foster Resilience
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Mental Health Challenges
7 Things You Can Do if Your Child is Suffering from Anxiety
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How to Build Our Kids' Resilience By Helping Them Change Their Self-Defeating Narratives
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Mental Health Challenges
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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Mental Health Challenges
Are We Prescribing Too Many Medications for Normal Teen Problems?
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Encouraging Resilience
Four More Ways to Help Children Struggling with School
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Building Relationships
Good Ways to Help a Child Struggling With School
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One Important Alternative When Your Teens Struggle With School
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Effects of Childhood Trauma
Why It's Easy to Repeat the Cycle of Trauma and How to Stop
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Encouraging Resilience
The Best Way We Can Encourage Resilience and Build Self-Esteem
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Encouraging Resilience
How to Encourage Resilience Through Emotional Support
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Encouraging Resilience
We Can Build Resilience By Providing Social Support
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How to Build Resilience by Encouraging Our Kids to Take Risks
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New Study Says Risky Play May Be Good for Our Children
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Media/Podcasts/Speaking
Join Us at the National Foster Parents' Association Virtual Conference
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Building Relationships
How and Why Fathers are Important to Our Kids
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Encouraging Resilience
5 Important Things to Remember about Our Teens and Summer Jobs
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5 Principles for Teaching Teens to Be Independent
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Positive Childhood Experiences Can Boost Resilience and Help Heal Trauma
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Lowering Our Expectations May Be the Best Way to Lower Our Kids’ Stress
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Effects of Childhood Trauma
Boys Who Have Suffered Trauma May Be Less Resilient Than Girls
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Power of Plan B Parenting
Embrace the Power of Being Our Child's Plan B
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Join me in Wisconsin on Saturday
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Building Relationships
How to Remain Sane When Your Adult Children Still Live at Home
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Encouraging Resilience
Why Empowering Our Children is Not the Same As "Blaming the Victim"
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Finding and Enforcing Logical Consequences
Why We Should Give Kids More Control Over Their Lives and How to Do It
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Encouraging Resilience
What Hobbits Can Teach Us About Being Good Mentors
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Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There
Why Raising Other People's Children Requires That We Become Good Mentors
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Encouraging Resilience
Resilience or Self-Esteem -- Which Comes First in Recovering from Trauma?
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Effects of Childhood Trauma
Does It Matter Whether Our Kids Can't or Won't Behave?
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Encouraging Resilience
More Encouraging Evidence that Positive Experiences Can Counteract Traumatic Experiences
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Encouraging Resilience
How to Use History to Help Our Kids Learn Resilience
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Encouraging Resilience
Why and How to Help Our Children Find Groups They Enjoy
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Encouraging Resilience
Study: Positive Childhood Experiences Can Counterbalance Adverse Ones
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Encouraging Resilience
How to Help Our Children Change Bad Habits
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Encouraging Resilience
Why and How to Help Our Kids Find Mentors
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Foster Parenting Special Topics
Five Ways to Help Foster Families
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Encouraging Resilience
Our Children's Trauma Does Not Control Their Future
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Effects of Childhood Trauma
How to Teach Empathy to Children with Trauma
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Encouraging Resilience
How to Help When Your Child is Being Bullied
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Setting and Protecting Your Priorities
One Key Reason that We Burn Out as Parents
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Encouraging Resilience
Ways to Build Resilience in Young Adults
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Setting and Protecting Your Priorities
Less-Than-Perfect Parenting Is Good For Our Kids
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Encouraging Resilience
Ways to Help Build Resilience
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Encouraging Resilience
Building Resilience by Building Relationships
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Finding and Enforcing Logical Consequences
How to Use Logical Consequences with Children
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Encouraging Resilience
The Trap of Blaming Other People
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Encouraging Resilience
Family Resilience Traits May Help Prevent Bullying
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Encouraging Resilience
Embrace the Power of "And"
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Encouraging Resilience
Building Resilience by Connecting to Family Stories
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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
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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
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Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There
Where We Fit In The Stories Our Children Tell Themselves
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Encouraging Resilience
Resilience and the Power of Connections
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Encouraging Resilience
The Importance of Resilience and the Power of Plan B
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Seasonal Posts
Why You Shouldn’t Worry About Teaching Gratitude
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Foster Parenting Special Topics
Surviving — And Thriving — During the Holidays With Foster Children
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Seasonal Posts
Surviving – And Thriving – During the Holidays
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Encouraging Resilience
We Cannot Let Our Children’s Trauma Define Them
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Overcoming the Self-Limiting Stories That Our Children Tell Themselves
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Parenting Children with Trauma: Countering ACEs
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Mental Health Challenges
What to Do When Your Child Threatens Suicide
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