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Coping with Transitions …
Anyone connected with adoption knows that transitions tend to unsettle adoptees. Some posit that it echoes the primal...
Families Matter: NACAC Conference 2017… Reflections
Last week Sally Ankerfelt and I participated in Families Matter: Exploring Solutions in Adoption and Foster Care the...
Expanding Skill Sets for Adoptive Families: Conferences … Sharing & Learning
It's conference time and Growing Intentional Families Together coaches Sally Ankerfelt and Gayle Swift have traveled...
Mirroring and Belonging: Building Healthy Relationships
Last week we introduced the relationship pyramid and discussed how safety and security provide the foundation on which...
Adoptive Families: Planning for the Unexpected
For most of us the carefully wrought, precarious balance of our family systems depends on everything operating as...
Adoption Attuned Parenting Tips for Ages 0 – 7
In our latest podcast, Coaches Susan David and Joann DiStefano offer tips on how to Adoption Attune your relationships...
“Parenting in the Eye of the Storm”: an Important Resource for Families
Parenting in the Eye of the Storm by Katie Naftziger, LICSW has written a readable and practical book. Katie is both a...
Our Job as Parents
Mother's Day and Father's Day focus attention on the importance of our job as parents. To our children, we are the...
Podcast Series: Questions to Ask before, during & after Adopting
GIFT coaches Susan David and Joann Distefano host a podcast called "Essentials for Adoption-attuned Parenting* If you...
Having Fun Yet?
Parenting is challenging work, probably far more difficult than you had anticipated. You might even find yourself...
