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In this challenging environment, sometimes you must take a break from your day to day routine and have some fun. We are so excited to announce that we are having a sweepstakes! Tell us your family adoption story for a chance to WIN! Our Adoption Story Contest & Sweepstakes would love to showcase your advice, support, moments and memories that made the journey worthwhile. Winners will be selected by 5/12/2020. Good luck!

To enter, and for complete Official Rules and Participant Waiver, visit:

Enter to Win

One Grand Prize Contest Winner:

Extra-large JBF Bear & a $250 Jockey Gift Card—a $355 value

Four Sweepstakes Winners randomly selected:

$100 Jockey Gift Card
 

No Purchase. Necessary. Void where Prohibited. 4/10/2020 – 5/5/2020. US residents only, 18 or older.

Dr. Karyn Purvis: 6 Crucial Things Every Adoptive Parent Must Do

I was fortunate enough to interview the late great Dr. Karyn Purvis on the Creating a Family Radio Show/Podcast several times and each time I learned something new. She had a knack for simplifying deep concepts and making them easy to apply. These are the six crucial things every adoptive parent must do, especially if they are adopting a child past infancy.

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Homeschooling Kids (on top of everything else) During Coronavirus

Are you going a little crazy trying to be your child’s teacher, as well as a parent during the Coronavirus shutdown? Check out this interview with Heather Forbes, a licensed clinical social worker, the author of the bestselling book Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control: A Love-Based Approach to Helping Attachment-Challenged Children With Severe Behaviors, the founder of the Beyond Consequences Institute, and author of numerous other books, including her newest release, Classroom180: Trauma-Informed Classrooms

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Helping Your Child Move from Anti-Social to Pro-Social Behaviors

We all enter the world ready to attach because this is how we get our most basic and primary needs met. The human infant, like other high functioning mammals, is completely dependent on their primary caregivers to get all of their needs met—survival, safety, food, shelter, stimulation, comfort. For us to understand where some of our children’s most challenging behaviors come from, we must first realize just how much neglect and trauma affect every aspect of a child’s development. We are social-emotional beings with an innate need to connect and form meaningful attachment relationships. Every interpersonal skill required for us to be successful in creating and sustaining these relationships must be learned.

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Foster care and adoption in the age of COVID-19

As a parent—or aspiring parent—you’re already dealing with uncertainty every day. The last thing you needed was to have caseworkers become more difficult to reach or to have the routines you’ve worked so hard to establish unravel as schools close and providers become overwhelmed.

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Check out this FREE online course from our friends at Creating a Family, available through the generous support of
Jockey Being Family...


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