This is a guest blog post by our very good friend, author Mary Potter Kenyon. Enjoy! —————————————————————————————————– I have no doubt that by the end of March I will be able to look back on the first year after David’s death and see clearly just how badly I’ve actually handled so many things. Our Christmas […]
Continue Reading... 4 Comments.by Dr. Beth Robinson Building a relationship with a traumatized child will require a great investment of love and time. Frequently foster parents and adoptive parents believe that they can bring children into their home and erase the impact of their previous lives and trauma. The overwhelming majority of foster and adoptive children have experienced trauma. Today […]
Continue Reading... 2 Comments.Today’s blog is offered to us by friend and colleague Jolene Philo, author of A Different Dream for My Child and A Different Dream Parenting. The original post can be found at The Friendship Circle, which offers special needs resources for parents and educators. No one wants the words “post-traumatic stress disorder” and “children” to appear in the same […]
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