Parenting Adopted Children with Challenging Behavior

Parenting Adopted Children with Challenging Behavior

Sometimes adopted children will have experienced abuse, neglect, trauma, or prenatal exposure to alcohol or drugs, all of which can influence how a child behaves. Adoptive parents are faced with understanding what causes their child to behave the way she does and what they can do to help her cope.

Creating a Family has many resources on Parenting Adopted Children with Challenging Behavior.  Here are a few of our most recent we think you will find particularly helpful:

• Parenting a Challenging Child: A Collaborative Approach (blog post)
• When Your Child’s Trauma Impacts Your Marriage (blog post)
• The IDEAL Response: How to Maintain Connection When Correcting Your Child (blog post)
• Using Scripts to Build Trust with Foster & Adopted Kids (blog post)
• Taking Care of Yourself When Parenting Harder to Parent Kids (1 hr. radio show w/ expert)
• Practical Tips for Disciplining Children Who Have Experienced Trauma (1 hr. radio show w/ expert)
• Trauma-Informed Parenting: Practical Applications of TBRI (1 hr. downloadable AdoptionEd.org course)
• Suggested Books on Parenting & Child Development and ADHD & Learning Differences for Adoptive Parents

Many more Creating a Family interviews with experts, blogs, and fact sheets on parenting challenging kids can be found at the icons below.

Image credit: Sherri

Additional Resources

Creating a Family Radio Shows on Challenging Behavior

Creating a Family Blogs on Challenging Behavior

Creating a Family Factsheets, Tips on Challenging Behavior