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Healing from Trauma/Neglect/Abuse
Helping Tweens and Teens Manage Money
When a child’s developing brain is impacted by exposure to drugs and alcohol during pregnancy, early loss, neglect, or other trauma, they may struggle to understand money. Learning the value of money and how to manage it can also be an overwhelming task for kids with...
The Do’s and Don’ts of Managing Holiday Stress
During the holiday season, your family may anticipate long days off from school, extra sweets and unique food, and seasonal events. However, you may also feel increased stress and anxiety. After all, there are more things on your To Do list. Your grandchild doesn't...
Helping Kids with ADHD Boost Their Mental Health
Many of the children you are raising have experienced painful losses or abuse. Others were exposed during pregnancy to alcohol or drugs. Still, others have both of those challenges in their history and are living with the impacts today. Those impacts may show up in...
Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol and Drugs
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Challenging Behaviors
4 Ideas for Handling Challenging Behaviors
Trauma, abuse, loss, and grief all create a sense of instability or insecurity in children of any age. When a relative’s child comes to your home, you may notice several behaviors, like talking back, temper tantrums, or whining. It’s understandable that they are...
Understanding Why Kids Lie and Steal
All kids tell lies or take something that doesn’t belong to them at some point in their childhood. But some children lie and steal often! As their caregiver, it’s stressful to live with these behaviors. You worry about the future and you want the behaviors to stop...
Helping Kids Move More to Improve Behavior
The coming of spring is a beautiful transition from winter's darker, gloomier days. Your grandchild might have struggled over the winter months with cabin fever. Feeling antsy and acting out from their restlessness is not uncommon for kids, significantly if they were...
ADHD
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Disrupting Birth Order
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Helping A Child Heal from Sexual Abuse
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School Issues for Foster & Kinship Kids
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Technology/Internet and Our Kids
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Self-Care for Kinship and Foster Parents
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Relationship with Child’s Parent
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Working Together For the Good of the Child In Your Care
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Raising Adolescents (tweens/teens)
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Supporting Healthy Relationships/Attachment
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