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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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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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Stepparenting
Feeling Lonely as a Stepparent is Common, and There Is Help
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Self Care
The Importance of Taking One Step at a Time
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Parenting Techniques
Five Things Theater and Movies Can Teach Us about Dealing with Family Drama
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Step-parenting
20 Holiday Traditions to Try With Your Blended Family
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Holidays
How To Cope When Your Children Reject You
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Holidays
Three Important Things to Remember About Christmas Presents for Your Child's Biological Parents
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Holidays
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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Parenting Techniques
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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Parenting Techniques
How to Parent Children From Different Faith Traditions
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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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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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Childhood Trauma
A Common Reason Why Your Kids May Reject You
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Parenting Techniques
Why and How To Keep Our Kids Connected to Their Biological 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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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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Parenting Techniques
Three Principles for Helping Children You Don't Understand
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Parenting Techniques
Does It Matter Whether Our Kids Can't or Won't Behave?
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Parenting Techniques
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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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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Parenting Techniques
How to Help Our Children Change Bad Habits
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Parenting Techniques
Four Ways to Limit Parenting Stress
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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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Parenting Techniques
We Need to Be Grateful for Our Kids, and Let Them Know
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Step-parenting
Honoring the Unique Challenges of Military Stepfamilies
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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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Parenting Techniques
What It Means To Recognize Our Children Have Agency
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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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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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Parenting Techniques
Why I Look for Low-Maintenance Consequences for Children
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Parenting Techniques
How to Use Logical Consequences with Children
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Parenting Techniques
How to Respond to "You Are Not My Parent!"
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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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Media Appearances
An International Podcast
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Childhood Trauma
Insisting on Accommodations for Children With Trauma
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Parenting Techniques
Why It Is Important to Build a Family Team
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Media Appearances
Stories of Inspiring Joy
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Parenting Techniques
Knowing that Someone Somewhere Cares About You
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Parenting Techniques
More About How to Respond to "It's Not Fair"
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Parenting Techniques
How to Respond to "It's Not Fair!"
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Parenting Techniques
Don't Forget This Free Parenting Summit
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Parenting Techniques
More Thinking About "It's Not Fair!"
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Parenting Techniques
Chaos to Calm Parenting Academy
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Parenting Techniques
How to Think About "It's Not Fair!"
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Step-parenting
Why Quality Time is Essential to Stepparenting
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Step-parenting
Why Sacrifice Is Crucial in Stepparenting
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Parenting Techniques
Foster and Stepfathers are Uniquely Important
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Media Appearances
Catch this Podcast to Learn How to Step Into Our Children's Lives
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Step-parenting
How to Be a Weekend Bonus Parent with Full-Time Step-siblings
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Media Appearances
Empowering Resilience Podcast
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Step-parenting
How to Be A Weekend Bonus Parent
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Media Appearances
Happy to Join "Everything Always"
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Parenting Techniques
Seven Tips for Less Stressful Vacations
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Parenting Techniques
Four Ways to Lessen Chaos in Your Family
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Parenting Techniques
Can You Make The Necessary Commitment?
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Resilience
Historical Study: Children with Stepparents Lived Longer
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Parenting Techniques
How to Live in Peace With Your Teenager
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Foster Parenting
How To Be The Person Who Is Not Supposed To Be There
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Parenting Techniques
What to Do When You Hate Mothers'/Fathers' Day
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Parenting Tips
Don't Let Mothers' Day Sneak Up on You
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Bullying
Family Resilience Traits May Help Prevent Bullying
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Parenting Techniques
How to Help Stepsiblings Get Along and Keep the Peace
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Media Appearances
A Conversation about "Raising Other People's Children"
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