You know the drill. You’re at church, the grocery store, or the local park and your child begins to misbehave. This is quickly followed by defiance or disregard for your attempts to stop the behavior. You feel helpless. What can you do in that moment to subside their behavior?
You set the guidelines, house rules, and boundaries only too turn around and find your child disregarding them. It can be maddening. But what if we told you their disregard may not be a matter of “won’t” but “can’t?”
It can be wildly frustrating for parents. You give a simple instruction: a chore, a task, or a favor. You ask it to be completed. You believe it’s simple and there should be no problem getting it done. But then you realize your child just didn’t do what you asked. Why?
This week we’re kicking off a brand new 5-part podcast series called “Help! I Need Answers.” During this series we’ll be unpacking and answering some of the biggest questions (and struggles) parents have. This week….rejection!
A common phrase passed around the foster care community is, “You may not be able to actively foster, but everyone can do something.” But how can you actually do this? How can you get involved?
The foster and adoption parenting journey is hard, messy, and sometimes exhausting. But in-spite of the hardships, it’s also a journey filled with stories of beauty, hope, and resiliency.
A great majority of human life is made up of boundaries. As we grow from early childhood, into the teenage years, and eventually adulthood, we are continuously surrounded by boundaries. Boundaries to keep us safe, boundaries to preserve healthy relationships, boundaries to keep us within the law (to name a few). But what do you do when you are parenting a child who can’t recognize boundaries?
How can we help our children overcome the loss, and grief, they experience and arrive to a place where they thrive? Our guest on the latest episode of the podcast, and adult adoptee, Simon Benn has dedicated his life to helping adoptees THRIVE (as well as us…parents!). His story is moving and compelling!
As human beings, we spend a lot of time hiding our past wounds. We look at them with shame when we should look at them as stories to be told. Stories of redemption and hope. When we acknowledge our wounds they can lead us toward healing and restoration.
If you’re anything like us, when you entered the foster or adoption journey you heard many stories about children in need of homes. You may have also heard the words “orphan care” tossed around or used as motivation to get people to adopt or foster, or venture off internationally to bring a chid home. But when we look closer, we see a different perspective on the global orphan crisis. One that is reunifying children with their biological families.
