by GIFT Coach | Aug 25, 2012 | Adoptive Parenting Skills/Tool, Blogs by Lynn Cooper, General Discussion, Post Adoption Challenges & Behaviors
In the winter 2012 issue of Adoptalk, the NACAC newsletter, an article was published entitled “Traumatized Children Require Different Parenting Techniques” by Debi Grebenik. The author discusses trauma and brain development, parent preparation and parenting...
by GIFT Coach | Jul 12, 2012 | Adoptive Parenting Skills/Tool, Blogs by Joann DiStefano, General Discussion, Post Adoption Challenges & Behaviors, Strengthening Family Relationships
When I went to the dictionary to look up the word addict, the definition that most resonated with me was from the Franklin Language Master. It defined addict as “one who devotes or surrenders oneself to something habitual or excessive”. From this definition, one might...
by Gayle Swift | Feb 5, 2012 | Adoptive Parenting Skills/Tool, Blogs by Gayle Swift, General Discussion, Post Adoption Challenges & Behaviors, The Adoption Triad
Recently I shared a conversation with an adult who was adopted as a newborn. She described the soup of emotions that she felt toward her birth-mother. To this day, she maintains a strong current of anger, hurt, frustration, and lack of control. This pain co-exists...
by GIFT Coach | Oct 2, 2011 | Adoptive Parenting Skills/Tool, Blogs by Lynn Cooper, Foster Parenting, General Discussion, Post Adoption Challenges & Behaviors, Strengthening Family Relationships
I had the most fascinating, frustrating and scary experience with my son a couple of weeks ago. He is 18 and decided to assert his independence by putting himself in a potentially dangerous situation. I spent 24 hours not only worrying about his safety, but also...
by GIFT Coach | Aug 7, 2011 | Adoptive Parenting Skills/Tool, Blogs by Lynn Cooper, Foster Parenting, General Discussion, Post Adoption Challenges & Behaviors, Strengthening Family Relationships
Having just returned from the North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC) conference in Denver, my head is still swimming with all of the wonderful and beneficial information regarding working with and rearing foster and adoptive children. The workshops on...
by Sally A | Jul 24, 2011 | Adoptive Parenting Skills/Tool, Blogs by Sally Ankerfelt, Foster Parenting, General Discussion, Post Adoption Challenges & Behaviors, Strengthening Family Relationships
Not long ago, I returned from work to find my soon-to-be 20 year-old daughter frantically washing her clothes. Just that morning, she had called to announce that she was heading back to the birth family and town she left behind eight short years earlier when she...
