Learn how adopted tweens are developing new analytical abilities, and beginning to explore new ideas, identities, and world views. They are getting messages from media and peers that they should begin to separate from their family, but most of them are not emotionally ready to do so. Understanding what is happening, and why, really does help!
Target audience: Adoptive parents, first/birth parents.
Lead Speaker: Beth Hall
2019
by S. Kripa Cooper-Lewter 2013 The stories we are told and the stories we tell have great meaning for our lives. As a social worker, researcher, author, life coach, wife, parent, and adult adoptee, I am fascinated by the way families go about constructing a coherent...
by Rona Renner, RN published 2010 “Do you think my child’s fearful approach to everything new is because of his early experiences, or is it just his nature?” “My daughter’s high energy is really hard for me, I wonder if she’ll always be so hyper.” These are typical...
by Kenneth W. Watson published 1996 Parents have been trying to make sense out of the behavior of their children since Adam and Eve. This wish to understand people’s behavior (our own and others’) suggests wide acceptance of the belief that our behavior has meaning...