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:

• De-Escalation Techniques For Parents of Kids Who Have Experienced Trauma (1 hr. radio interview)
• No Such Thing as a Bad Kid (1 hr. radio interview)
• Parenting Toolkit for Harder to Parent Kids (1 hr. radio interview)
• Parenting the Easily Frustrated, Inflexible Child (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.

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

Creating a Family Videos on Challenging Behavior

Q and A's with Experts on Challenging Behavior