You have waited for years to finally bring home a child to fill your home and your heart with joy and laughter. While working on your pre-adoption education requirements, you
Developing Healthy Homework Habits
Homework. It’s a dreaded word for most kids and often for adults, too! When raising a child with learning challenges, the dread factor wrapped up in that one word can
Partnering with School to Help Your Child Succeed
Children impacted by early-life trauma, prenatal substance exposure, or other challenges often experience behavior issues in the classroom. Their teachers and other educational professionals frequently misunderstand their behaviors, especially if
A Back-to-School Checklist for Your Adoptive, Foster, or Kinship Family
Quicker than you imagine, you will be fully immersed in back-to-school preparations with your adopted, foster, or kinship kids. We know! Mentioning the “s-c-h-o-o-l” word can make you cringe this
Taking Care of Yourself When Raising a Relative or Foster Child
Raising a foster child or the child of a loved one can be rewarding, fulfilling, …and exhausting. We’re talking about exhaustion where even your eyelashes feel tired. Children removed from
Understanding the Losses Foster & Kinship Kids Experience
When your family welcomes a new foster child or a relative child for kinship care, it’s critical to recognize that this child is experiencing grief and loss. Regardless of how
What are Executive Function Skills? Why Do They Matter?
This article is brought to you by Creating a Family through the generous support of our friends at the Jockey Being Family Foundation®. They share our vision for providing education
Open Adoption and the Holidays
Raising your child and navigating an open adoption can be challenging on the best of days. When you add the layers of holiday traditions, sensory overwhelm, or triggering memories to
Working with Your Child’s Birth Family During the Holiday Season
Whether you are fostering a child through the child welfare system or helping raise the child of a loved one through a kinship care arrangement, it’s almost always in the
The Family We Are
Lindsay and Ryan began their adoption journey as many people do, envisioning an infant who would transform them from a couple into a growing family. But within months of starting
