Learn from the voices of experience! Hear adoptive parents share things they wish they had understood earlier. Topics include: handling your own fears; understanding how children experience adoption; why the words we use matter; talking about our child’s birth and first/birth parents; responding to difficult behaviors in children (and ourselves); anticipating children’s questions; and adjusting our parenting expectations.
Adolescent Brain Development: Understanding Tweens and Teens
Adolescence is hard and complicated for everyone, and even more so for adopted teens of color. Learn how to understand the many changes taking place in the brains, bodies, and emotions of your beloved, frustrating tweens and teens so you can help your adopted child...