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The Entitled Child | Older Child Adoptive Parenting
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Older Child Adoptive Parenting. Parenting children adopted as toddlers and older. Therapeutic respite: questions to ask. When Things Go Wrong →. Break the entitlement habit in your child! Entitlement in children usually makes us feel annoyed or mad! Children expecting to be given things and privileges, without any reason for receiving them is entitlement. This type of giving creates children who come to understand that life works on the principle of “ask and you shall receive.”. Develop new parenting str...
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When Things Go Wrong | Older Child Adoptive Parenting
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Older Child Adoptive Parenting. Parenting children adopted as toddlers and older. Ask questions all the time →. When Things Go Wrong. The recent wreck of the Costa Concordia got me thinking about dealing with challenges, problems, major issues. Do we as parents spend enough time teaching our children what to do when things go wrong? So how can children be taught to handle challenging life situations? What should they do when things go wrong? Take a deep breath. Now another one. Now one more. Realize ther...
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Older Child Adoption | Older Child Adoptive Parenting
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Older Child Adoptive Parenting. Parenting children adopted as toddlers and older. Author Archives: Older Child Adoption. About Older Child Adoption. As an older child parent coach and respite provider, I work with adoptive and foster families. My goal is to give children and families tools to be as effective as possible in their emotional lives and in their communication with each other. Ask questions all the time. What three things do I need you to do to get ready for bed? When you get ready for bed, do...
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Ask questions all the time | Older Child Adoptive Parenting
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Older Child Adoptive Parenting. Parenting children adopted as toddlers and older. When Things Go Wrong. Ask questions all the time. As parents, it’s easy to tell our children things, and explain things, and tell them some more things! Questions instead of directives. Almost everything you ask your children can be turned into a question. So, instead of telling them, ask them a question. What three things do I need you to do to get ready for bed? Where does your book bag need to go? What would I like you t...
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Your family narrative | Bibliotherapy Plus
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Helping to heal the hurts of children and teens through words and writing, poems and pictures. January 16, 2012. Instead of reading or writing about other people, read, write, talk about your family. Some people write about their families to preserve family history. Some people write about their families as a way to sort out their feelings and beliefs about their past. Ways to tell your family story:. Create a slide presentation, gather the family around, and get everyone to share memories and stories.
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From nothing to love | Bibliotherapy Plus
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Helping to heal the hurts of children and teens through words and writing, poems and pictures. From nothing to love. June 13, 2011. 8221; The tabby cat befriends Nothing and takes him on an adventure. Eventually, the tabby cat takes Nothing home. Nothing finds out that he, in fact, belongs to this family. They clean him up, fix his injuries, and envelop him in love. He has a family! Discussion or writing topics:. How did Nothing feel in the beginning of the book? Have you ever felt like that? You are com...
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Emotions described in acrostic poems | Bibliotherapy Plus
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Helping to heal the hurts of children and teens through words and writing, poems and pictures. Emotions described in acrostic poems. June 28, 2011. Wrote poems about mad, sad, glad, scared, and ashamed. The poetry exercise began with showing him an acrostic poem where each letter of a person’s name or a word become the first letter of a line of poetry. For example, tree, might become a poem like this:. Hey are big or sometimes small. Eaching always for the sky. Very kind grows in the park. The process of...