Parenting Adopted Children with Challenging Behavior
Sometime 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. A few we think you will find particularly helpful are:
- No Such Thing as a Bad Kid (1 hr radio interview)
- Parenting Toolkit for Harder to Parent Kids (1 hr radio interview)
- Parenting Techniques to Prevent Adoption Failures (1 hr radio interview)
- 5 Sanity Saving Tips for Kids with FASD (blog post)
- Should You Adopt a Child That Has Been Sexually Abused (blog post)
- Suggested Books on Parenting & Child Development and ADD & Learning Differences for Adoptive Parents
Many more Creating a Family radio interviews with experts, videos, blogs, fact sheets, and Q and A’s with Experts on parenting challenging kids can be found at the icons below.
Image credit: SherriAdditional Resources
Creating a Family Radio Shows on Challenging Behavior
Creating a Family Blogs on Challenging Behavior
Creating a Family Factsheets, Tips on Challenging Behavior
Creating a Family Videos on Challenging Behavior
Q and A's with Experts on Challenging Behavior
