What would it mean to have a deeper understanding of your child’s diagnosis? Beyond that, to find resources that could help you parent better?
It’s easy to feel hopeless on the parenting journey, especially when you’re trying to navigate understanding and advocating for a child with an FASD. Fortunately, there are valuable resources that bring hope and help us succeed as caregivers.
We know that Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders have a profound effect on a person’s ability to reason, think logically, and control impulses. But in today’s society there are extra dangers.
In this world, people often jump to conclusions before fully listening to a person’s story, or perspective. We can also inadvertently respond like this in our parenting. The most important thing we can do with our children is listen first, before we react.
It’s easy for caregivers to become exhausted. Especially when their children are ramming their bodies into them, making loud noises in public, or melting down often. Today, we bring valuable answers to these behaviors.
Can you find hope and a future in foster care? If so, what does that look like. As part of our Pro-Human series, we’re asking these questions.
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, a lot of problematic, and dangerous, narratives have risen up. In this episode, we discuss what we’ve heard, and what foster and adoptive parents can do and say in response.
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.
For as advanced as medical science is in the 21st Century, there are still misunderstandings, and stigmas, surrounding prenatal drug and alcohol exposure. Fortunately, there are voices sharing the truth.
It’s Part 3 of our new series called Becoming Pro-Human. In this edition, we are taking a closer look at our own mental health as caregivers, and discussing honestly how we can better care for ourselves.
