When you are Parenting Children Who Have Experienced Trauma, you need to "build up your relationship account" before you can correct them effectively. Such great advice! Be sure to listen to the podcast below on Parenting Children Who have Experienced Trauma for more techniques for building connection with your adopted or foster kids so they can receive your love and correction.
We also include a beautiful video from the Dave Thomas Foundation on Ellie's Story about being adopted from foster care. It will touch your heart.
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Birthparents on their Minds
As children enter adolescence, they usually become more private about their thoughts and feelings. Teens in adoptive families are no exception, and some teens may find the subject of birth parents especially uncomfortable to discuss with their parents. It may feel deeply disloyal to them to do so. It may be hard for them to put into words what they are feeling. They may have mixed feelings that leave them feeling baffled and confused, different and alone. Consequently, adoptive parents may be unaware of just how often and how intensely their teen is thinking about birth parents.
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Parenting Children Who Have Experienced Trauma
How can we parent our children who have experienced trauma. How can we discipline them in a way that will help them learn and grow. We talk with Karen Doyle Buckwalter, a clinical social worker specializing in attachment and trauma, and author of Raising the Challenging Child: How to Minimize Meltdowns, Reduce Conflict, and Increase Cooperation.
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Ellie's Story
For most of her young life, Ellie bounced back and forth between living with her birth parents and other caregivers. She was bullied at home and at school. She didn’t feel like she fit in anywhere. At age 16, she entered foster care."I felt like nobody wanted me. I felt like my life was already over," she says. Thankfully, Ellie was adopted at age 19 with support from the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption and her Wendy’s Wonderful Kids recruiter, Chelsey. “I’ve never had an adult stay by my side for so long. When I lost hope, she never gave up on me,” Ellie shared. This is her story.
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Adoption Tax Credit: How to Find The Expert You Need
The Adoption Tax Credit is not actually all that complicated to file yourself when doing your own annual taxes. But what if you have a question that isn’t easily answered? What if your adoption or your adoption expenses have something outside of the ordinary? Or, what if your credit was denied? How do you find someone to help?
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