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How to Bond with Your Teen Foster & Adopted Daughter
Fast and easy activities to promote bonding between you and your teen foster or adopted daughter. These activities also include ideas that incorporate physical touch which is a part of healthy growth and development.
Parenting with the Five Love Languages
Utilizing the five love languages developed by Dr. Gary Chapman, may be a wonderful way to build attachment and bonding within your newly adoptive or foster family. Learn some parenting ideas that fulfill the five love languages.
Reluctant to Be a Dad
Some men are afraid to become an adoptive or foster parent. How to help your man ease into fatherhood.
20/20's "From Russia With Love — Dealing With Difficult Adoptions"
20/20 interviewed the Mulligan family who adopted Margarita and her sister Elena from Russia when they were 11 and 8 years old in July 2004. Soon after bringing their girls home they adopted a 4-year-old little boy named Sasha also from Russia. They renamed him Slater. The family’s adoption is 4-years-old now and the oldest and youngest children in the family are struggling with multiple diagnosis's
Mulligan Family Opens Up About Their Russian Adoptions
After the Mulligans were interviewed on 20/20 regarding their difficult journey as adoptive parents to three Russian children, many had more questions. I got to speak to the family for 3 hours and the Mulligans cleared up some misconceptions about them, their children and Russian adoption.
Coping with an Open Adoption
Any relationship can be tricky, however very few relationships will be as tricky as those within an open adoption. An open adoption may be one of the most important relationships in your and your child's life.
Preparing Your Child for an Open Adoption
While it can be a tricky arraignment, an open adoption is often in the child's best interest. However there are pros and cons to choosing an open adoption and your child must be prepared. Help your child prepare for an adoption reunion.
When a Child's Behavior Problem Threatens the Adoptive Family
Dealing with child behavior problems is one of the issues faced by adoptive parents. Many children suffer from behavior problems. Gain some ideas on how to handle them and protect your family.
A New Study Looks at Troubled Teens
Troubled teens that were infants when adopted domestically suffer from more mental health needs than non-adopted teens. Internationally adopted teens fair much better than domestic adopted teens. An interesting study looks at troubled teens.
8 Ways to Make Time for Your Foster or Adopted Child
Dads are busy guys and busy guys have it rough trying to make time for kids. Sometimes they forget that they are needed in their children's lives. Stay involved and know that your kids need you and show your children that you care by making time for kids.
To Add a Child or Not to Add a Child - Timing May be the Answer
Foster and adoptive parents need to discuss many factors before deciding if it is the right time to add a child to the family. A time of many transitions may signal that it is the wrong time for a family.
Holiday Survival with Foster or Adopted Children
Discover tips and clues to getting through the holidays with your foster or adopted children. Holidays are stressful, but with foster and/or adopted children there are other issues and concerns that may pop up.
Preparing Your Children for Foster Care or Adoption
How to prepare your children for foster care as well as welcome new foster and adopted children into your family.
Avoiding Child Abuse in Times of Stress
Coping skills for parents for times of stress and depression. Avoid child abuse with a few simple tips.
Snow Day Activities for Foster or Adopted Children
So you just read the announcement on the news, it's a snow day. The kids are cheering and you're thinking of all the things you need to get done today. What are you going to do with your foster children or adopted children on a snow day? Here are some ideas for snow day activities for foster or adopted children.
4 Tips to Stop Bullying and Bias Before it Happens
Deb Capone is our newest guest author on About Adoption & Foster Care. She brings us a great article featuring tips to stop bullying at school. Bullying is an adoption issue due to the fact that experts find that common causes of bullying are rooted in diversity: racial differences, differences in family formation/structure, perceived sexual orientation, learning disabilities, and religious differences. Many adoptions cross cultural and racial lines. Get great tips to stop bullying now.
Adoption & Foster Care Medical Terminology
A listing of diagnosis that may affect foster children or adopted children. Links leading to more information.
Journal Questions for Kids Who Were Adopted or Currently in Foster Care
Encouraging children to work on journals or lifebooks can help them deal with the grief and loss of being in foster care or having been adopted. Here is a list of questions to help foster children get started with journals.
Child Abuse Risk Factors
What are the common causes or risk factors of child abuse? Why would anyone abuse his/her own child? Learn of the different factors that may lead to the abuse of a child.
The Aftermath of Katrina and Rita Could Include Child Abuse
Natural disasters could lead to child abuse as parents lose control under stress.
Raising Bilingual Children: 10 Tips for Boosting the Minority Language
10 Tips to Boost a bilingual child. In international adoptions we are faced with the need to help our children maintain some sort of tie to their birth country. Helping the children acquire or maintain their second language is one way to meet this need.
Raising Bilingual Children: Is It Too Late?
Is it too late to raise a bilingual child. In international adoptions we are faced with the need to help our children maintain some sort of tie to their birth country. Helping the children acquire or maintain their second language is one way to meet this need.
Raising Bilingual Children: The Best Parenting Methods
Best parenting methods to raising a bilingual child. In international adoptions we are faced with the need to help our children maintain some sort of tie to their birth country. Helping the children acquire or maintain their second language is one way to meet this need.
Raising Bilingual Children: 5 Steps to Parenting Success
How to raise a bilingual child. In international adoptions we are faced with the need to help our children maintain some sort of tie to their birth country. Helping the children acquire or maintain their second language is one way to meet this need.
Raising Bilingual Children: What Are The Drawbacks?
Drawbacks to raising a bilingual child. In international adoptions we are faced with the need to help our children maintain some sort of tie to their birth country. Helping the children acquire or maintain their second language is one way to meet this need.