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,...
by Raising Relatives | May 8, 2025 | Healing from Trauma/Neglect/Abuse, Working Together For the Good of the Child In Your Care
Most kids look forward to summer break. The school year is over, the days are long, and there’s more time to relax, be outside, and have fun. But after a while, you will likely hear “I’m so bored” or see signs of their restlessness. Many kids who have...
by Raising Relatives | Apr 25, 2025 | Healing from Trauma/Neglect/Abuse
Raising a tween or teen grandchild (nephew, niece, cousin, or sibling) today is challenging. You are already helping them navigate typical milestones like developing identity, learning healthy independence, and building adult life skills, and big emotions and hormones...
by Raising Relatives | Apr 3, 2025 | Challenging Behaviors, Healing from Trauma/Neglect/Abuse
Across the state, Spring is springing up everywhere! Sending the kids outside to play relieves many grandparents and family caregivers. After all, many of us would agree that Winter means too much time inside for our kids, on screens, in their rooms, or getting on...
by Raising Relatives | Mar 28, 2025 | Healing from Trauma/Neglect/Abuse, Self-Care for Kinship and Foster Parents
The tween and teen years can get a bad rap – folks assume an adolescent will be rebellious, acting out, or stuck behind a screen with a sullen look on their face. While sometimes those things are true, it’s also true that the teen years can be rich with rewarding...
by Raising Relatives | Mar 13, 2025 | Challenging Behaviors, Healing from Trauma/Neglect/Abuse
When you agree to open your home to a relative child, you are agreeing to so much more than providing a clean, safe bed and regular meals. You are agreeing to offer them an emotionally and physically safe place to heal from the challenges they encountered before...
