by GIFT Coach | Sep 11, 2012 | Adoptive Parenting Skills/Tool, Blogs by Gayle Swift, General Discussion, Post Adoption Challenges & Behaviors
What are the Barriers to Sharing Difficult Information? A recent discussion with adoption professionals focused on parents who choose to withhold difficult information from adopted children. A question was posed: Is the motivation to protect the child or for the...
by GIFT Coach | Jul 20, 2012 | Adoptive Parenting Skills/Tool, Blogs by Susan David, Foster Parenting, General Discussion, Strengthening Family Relationships
Ever been at a car wash for one cause or another with a group of teens? Soapy water, suds, and slippery pavement combined with energetic, spontaneous and very excited teens, and then add every so often a moving vehicle rolling into that picture! YIKES! What I noticed,...
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 GIFT Coach | Jun 20, 2012 | Blogs by Lynn Cooper, General Discussion
What is forgiveness? The Webster’s New World Dictionary provides 3 meanings for the word forgive: 1. To give up resentment against or the desire to punish; stop being angry with, pardon 2. To give up all claim to punish or exact penalty for an offense; to overlook 3....
by GIFT Coach | Jun 12, 2012 | Adoptive Parenting Skills/Tool, Blogs by Guests, Difficult Discussions, General Discussion, School & IEP Support
Our guest blogger is Christina White. Christina is a survivor of a traumatic childhood in which she was subjected to persistent and pervasive abuse. She was hidden from her father and he died before she could reconnect with him. Eventually, she was raised by an uncle....
