Parenting Foster Kids with Challenging Behaviors
Often, foster kids have come into care specifically because they have experienced abuse or neglect. Those experiences and other kinds of trauma that may have occurred in their home, including being removed from their birth family, can and often do influence how a child behaves.
Foster parents receive specific training during the process to be licensed to foster, to gain a basic understanding of why foster kids behave the way they do and what they can do to help them cope. Once foster parents welcome a foster child into their home, they may find that the child’s behaviors are often particularly challenging.
Creating a Family has many resources to help you who are Parenting Foster Kids with Challenging Behaviors. Here are a few of our more recent resources that you might find particularly helpful:
- Practical Ideas to Boost Your Child’s Social-Emotional Learning (article)
- Prenatal Exposure, Part 1: Parenting Babies through Elementary Ages (article)
- Prenatal Exposure, Part 2: Parenting Tweens and Teens (article)
- How to Raise an Intense Child (1 hr. podcast w/ expert)
- Picky Eating and Other Food Issues (1 hr. podcast w/ expert)
- Understanding Psychotropic Medications (1 hr. podcast w/ expert)
Scroll down to the bottom of the page for more resources that Creating a Family offers in the form of articles, podcasts, and fact sheets to support you in Parenting Foster Kids with Challenging Behaviors.
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