Relationships Within Your Extended Family

Several tips and ideas for grandparents who may struggle with knowing how to be a grandparent to a foster or adopted child. This can be especially difficult for those grandparents who don’t agree with their child’s decision to become a foster and/or adoptive parent. Foster parenting or adoptive parenting is made tougher when we lack support from our family and friends.

How to support your child as a foster parent. Many grandparents don't like the idea of their children becoming foster parents, but how can a grandparent be supportive?

Ideas on what to teach your child to prepare them for new foster or adopted children.

Extended family is sometimes very involved in a foster family's day-to-day activities. How does a grandparent welcome a new foster child into the family? Are there things that grandparents should be aware of? Get some tips on grandparents and foster children.

You know how to be a grandparent, because more than likely, you watched your grandchild grow up from an infant. You learned what your grandchild liked and disliked. Now you are thrown into the situation of being a grandparent to a foster child or a newly adopted child; a child you don't know. How do you begin being a grandparent to this child? Here are 15 ways to be a grandparent.

Teaching your foster/adoptive child to answer the questions of other kids about being adopted or being in foster care. Teach children how to keep things private using a covery story.

Unfortunately we all have heard stories of extended family not accepting a newly adopted child as part of the family unit. Let's not focus on the negative and take time to read stories of all the wonderful ways different family members have worked to embrace an adopted child.