by Raising Relatives | Dec 15, 2025 | Challenging Behaviors
Raising a relative’s child is an opportunity to lead them toward healing and to give them access to your family’s culture, history, values, and love. Because you care deeply, it can hurt when a child talks back, uses a sharp tone, or responds with sass. You may feel...
by Raising Relatives | Dec 15, 2025 | Raising Adolescents (tweens/teens), Supporting Healthy Relationships/Attachment, Technology/Internet and Our Kids
When you’re raising a relative’s teen in your home, especially when that teen couldn’t live safely in their parents’ home, you may face unique challenges. One of the big ones today is screens: phones, tablets, gaming, social media. It can feel like you’re fighting a...
by Raising Relatives | Dec 9, 2025 | ADHD, Challenging Behaviors
If you’re caring for a grandchild, niece, or nephew who has ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder), you know it comes with challenges and rewards. Being a relative caregiver in this community means you bring deep roots, caring traditions, and strong support...
by Raising Relatives | Dec 2, 2025 | Supporting Healthy Relationships/Attachment
When you step in to raise your relative’s child, as an auntie, grandmother, older cousin, or another trusted family member, you give that child something priceless: safety, steadiness, and love. But most of these kids also have others who care deeply about them....
by Raising Relatives | Dec 2, 2025 | Raising Adolescents (tweens/teens), Supporting Healthy Relationships/Attachment
Do you ever catch yourself singing “Rockin’ around the Christmas tree…” and halfway through realize your tween or teen grandchild is doing their own version behind you, complete with lip-syncing, eye-rolling, but they’re secretly smiling too? That little burst of...
