The Adoption & Foster Care Journey
Religion & Spirituality:Christianity
Brave souls who embark on the journey of foster care or adoption step into the adventure believing they have all the right tools for the job. It doesn’t take long for parents to find themselves in a world where their tools don’t fit - kinda like using American standard measurement tools for a job with metric system measurements. Traditional parenting tools that might work with biological children do not work on children with trauma backgrounds. Children who have spent any time in the U.S. foster care system or in an orphanage overseas have trauma in their history.
Adoptive mom, Kathleen Guire, knows good hearted, well intentioned foster and adoptive parents may also be ill-equipped for the most important job of their lives. Kathleen wrote the handbook, How to Have Peace When Your Kids are in Chaos - For Foster & Adoptive Parents as a resource for families struggling with the unique challenges involved in parenting kids from hard places. She has also created an online companion course with 7 video modules to train parents with the tools that actually fit the job.
Listen to our conversation with Kathleen Guire as we discuss why she wrote the book and how to use it on our Orphans No More podcast here. Kathleen also hosts The Whole House Podcast which can be found here. Below is a list of books written by Kathleen. All are found on Amazon.com, Barnes and Nobel, and wherever good books are sold.
How to Have Peace When Your Kids are in Chaos - For Foster & Adoptive Parents
A Positive Adoption Story
Five Things - For Adoptive & Foster Families
Defining Home
Bonus Episode - What Every Adoptive & Foster Parent Needs to Know About the Effects of Sugar Sweetened Beverages on Brain Function
Episode 352 - The Legend of Christmas with Adoptee Rhonda Robinson
Bonus Episode - What Every Adoptive & Foster Parent Needs to Know About the Effects of Sugar on the Brain Function
Episode 351 - Primary Characteristics of FASD—Impulsivity with Sandra Flach
Episode 350 - Finding Hope with Former Foster Youth, Amber Jewell
Episode 349 - Primary Characteristics of FASD - Slow Processing Pace with Sandra Flach
Bonus Episode - What Every Adoptive & Foster Parent Needs to Know About Planning & Organizing
Episode 348 - Primary Characteristics of FASD: Dysmaturity with Sandra Flach
Bonus Episode - What Every Adoptive & Foster Parent Needs to Know About Trauma & Information Processing
Episode 347 - Foster Parents—Planting Seeds of Hope with Melissa Smallwood
Bonus Episode - What Every Adoptive & Foster Parent Needs to Know About Trauma & Cognitive Flexibility
Episode 346 - I Love You to the Sun and Beyond with Adoptive Dad Cecil Stokes
Bonus Episode - What Every Adoptive & Foster Parent Needs to Know About Trauma & Working Memory
Episode 345 - Caution—Rough Road Ahead: Parenting Teens with Trauma & FASD
Bonus Episode - What Every Adoptive & Foster Parent Needs to Know About Trauma & Metacognition
Episode 344 - FASD Global Podcaster Panel with Dr. Jerrod Brown
Bonus Episode - What Every Adoptive & Foster Parent Needs to Know About Trauma & Self-Regulation
Episode 343 - Living Proof—From Foster Care to the White House to the NBA with Lucas Boyce
Bonus Episode - What Every Adoptive & Foster Parent Needs to Know About Executive Dysfunction
Episode 342 - Finding Community on the FASD Journey with Kathryn Meinhardt
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