by Raising Relatives | Dec 19, 2024 | Challenging Behaviors, School Issues for Foster & Kinship Kids
When a child struggles in school, they often receive special support and services through an IEP (individualized educational plan) or 505 plan. These accommodations and resources are unique to this child’s learning style or struggles. They can be a combination...
by Raising Relatives | Dec 19, 2024 | Challenging Behaviors, Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol and Drugs
Potty training your young grandchild, niece, or nephew is a huge milestone in gaining independence for you all. Grandparents and relative caregivers may feel overwhelmed with where to start and how long it will take. Every child is different, and there is a wide range...
by Raising Relatives | Dec 19, 2024 | Challenging Behaviors, Healing from Trauma/Neglect/Abuse, Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol and Drugs
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...
by Raising Relatives | Dec 19, 2024 | Challenging Behaviors, Healing from Trauma/Neglect/Abuse
Anger is a normal human emotion, but it can be scary for many of us to express or manage. When a child grows up with unsafe expressions of anger, or when they are no taught appropriate ways to work through their angry feelings, they may bubble over and act out anger...
by Raising Relatives | Dec 19, 2024 | Healing from Trauma/Neglect/Abuse, Self-Care for Kinship and Foster Parents
Occasionally, it’s good for your mental and emotional health to pause and consider what you are doing and why it matters. Kinship caregivers play a unique and vital role in a child’s healing and overall well-being. Do you stop to think about why and how to be sure you...
