by Raising Relatives | Jul 15, 2024 | Healing from Trauma/Neglect/Abuse
Your grandchild (or cousin or nephew) has likely had some challenging experiences before coming to your home. Your safe, steady presence and firm, loving boundaries are helpful, but you sense that this child needs more help than you alone can give. It’s common for...
by Raising Relatives | Jul 12, 2024 | Healing from Trauma/Neglect/Abuse
Improving Your Family’s Communication is an Investment How we communicate with our family powerfully affects how we feel about ourselves. Before your grandchild (or niece or cousin) came to you, they probably witnessed unhealthy communication patterns. It’s...
by Raising Relatives | Jul 12, 2024 | Healing from Trauma/Neglect/Abuse
When you are helping to raise a child from your family or tribal community, it will help you to learn about the impact of trauma on a child’s developing brain. What you learn might feel overwhelming and troubling when you think about the precious child you have...
by Raising Relatives | Jul 12, 2024 | Relationship with Child’s Parent
No one-size-fits-all solution exists for raising a loved one’s child in your home. Depending upon the role this child’s parent can play, the safety and legal issues in your family’s particular circumstances, and other issues your family faces, you might have...
by Raising Relatives | Jul 12, 2024 | Relationship with Child’s Parent
As a grandparent, aunt, or cousin raising this child when their parents cannot do it, you have a unique opportunity to provide nurturing care and space for healing for your loved ones. However, the relationship you already have with this child’s parents, whether they...
