by Raising Relatives | Jun 11, 2025 | Relationship with Child’s Parent, Self-Care for Kinship and Foster Parents, Working Together For the Good of the Child In Your Care
Raising your grandchild, niece, nephew, or other young relative can be a blessing. However, it can also be challenging to navigate. When a child lives apart from their parent—especially due to addiction or substance use—it can create deep emotional stress for everyone...
by Raising Relatives | Jun 11, 2025 | Self-Care for Kinship and Foster Parents
Raising your relative’s child is a sacred responsibility and a loving act that gives this child a safe space to land when their parents cannot care for them right now. Whether you’re a grandparent, aunt, uncle, cousin, or chosen family, you can make a lasting...
by Raising Relatives | Jun 2, 2025 | Self-Care for Kinship and Foster Parents
In many tribal communities, raising children is a shared responsibility. Aunties, uncles, grandparents, cousins, and even close family friends who step in when parents cannot show extraordinary love, commitment, and community in action. You likely are reading this...
by Raising Relatives | May 27, 2025 | Technology/Internet and Our Kids
Raising a tween or teen today means dealing with phones, social media, and online safety. If your grandchild or a young relative has come to live with you, and you haven’t had to manage screen time before, it can feel overwhelming. When you educate yourself and...
by Raising Relatives | May 16, 2025 | Healing from Trauma/Neglect/Abuse
If you’ve been reading articles on this site for a while now, you probably know about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). These are tough or scary things a child goes through—like abuse, neglect, or losing a parent. According to the Centers for Disease Control,...
