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Planks, Platforms & Parenting
As coaches committed to Intentional Parenting, we strive to support parents' efforts to successfully fulfill their...
What Matters for Adoptive Families: the Tuning in Part of Adoption Attunement
Our recent posts focused on communication, deep listening, and respect. These are foundational values for Intentional...
Listening to Understand, Not to Refute
Authentic listening is one of the most essential communication skills and one of the hardest to master. Often, we...
Listening and Speaking: Two Sides of Relationship Communication
Adoption complicates family life; it brings tangled emotions, high stakes, and passionate commitment. Adoption also...
Can Courtesy Create Confusion?
In our previous post we examined how to repair breaches in our relationships. Families who regularly practice this...
Repairing Relationship Breaches
We all strive to get along well. But, conflict, breaches and breakdown inevitably touch every relationship. This is...
On Making Mistakes and Repairing Them
As a parent, mistakes, miscalls, misunderstandings, and miscalculations are inevitable. We all know that...
Beyond Filling the Crib: Nurturing AQ* (Adoption-attunement)
To the marrow of our bones, adoptive parents understand what we've called in earlier blogs "our magnificent...
Prevent Suicide–Talk about It
In adoption, great joy and many blessings coexist with grief, sadness, curiosity, regret and other complicated but...
Gardenias: the Sweet Fragrance of Memories
I am fortunate to live where gardenias flourish. Year after year, blossoms erupt in fragrant profusion. Snowy white...
