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 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 | Nov 17, 2025 | ADHD, Challenging Behaviors, Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol and Drugs
If it feels like the kids start acting up the minute the decorations go up—you’re not imagining it. The holidays can bring out big emotions in everyone, especially children who’ve been through hard times. Whether you’re raising your grandchild, niece, nephew, or...
by Raising Relatives | Nov 5, 2025 | Challenging Behaviors, Healing from Trauma/Neglect/Abuse, Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol and Drugs
Does this sound familiar? Your grandchild starts yelling, crying, or storming off in the middle of the grocery store. Your heart starts racing, and you feel like all eyes are on you! Do you need better tools to handle your grandchild’s or other relative child’s...
by Raising Relatives | Oct 6, 2025 | Challenging Behaviors, Healing from Trauma/Neglect/Abuse
In this community, we value “family” as much bigger than just parents and children. This is one of the most common reasons that grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other relatives step in to help raise a child when the parents can’t. The strength of kinship care helps...
by Raising Relatives | Jul 22, 2025 | Challenging Behaviors, Healing from Trauma/Neglect/Abuse, Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol and Drugs
Helping a Child with Bedwetting and Other Toileting Problems Even after a child has learned successful daytime potty skills, they may experience other toileting challenges. For example, overnight bedwetting or pooping in their pants is not uncommon for kids who were...
