Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families
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Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families
Visit the new school prior to beginning classes to meet teachers or other key support people. • Practice travel to and from the new school to reduce anxiety about becoming lost. • Find a “buddy” or mentor, a peer who will offer support and information to the student changing schools. • Offer empathy, not judgment, dismissal, or ridicule, to an
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Seeking your biological child’s input is especially important when implementing new household rules or changing family traditions to accommodate a new sibling’s needs.
Betsy Keefer Smalley • Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families
A powerful biblical message speaks to those moments of utter confusion and despair: “I’ll show up and take care of you as I promised … I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out — plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for” (Jeremiah 29:11, msg). When all hope is gone, give God time. He can and does
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It is estimated that 50 percent of who we are is inherited. The other half is formed through experience.
Betsy Keefer Smalley • Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. What do you think and feel when you read this statement: “Every child has a story, and that story will have an impact on those who love him?” How much of your child’s story do you know? 2. What do you know about the early attachment experiences of your child? In what ways have you noticed that those experiences have affected
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School is filled with all kinds of people with all kinds of feelings. Maltreated children may find it difficult to read others’ emotions. A traumatized child, like a combat veteran who returns from the horror of war with a hypersensitivity to anticipated dangers, might punch someone in the face over a misunderstood comment. These kinds of behaviors
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Kids in search of a secure base may appear to push the teacher away through defiance or refusal to complete tasks. They may battle for control. They are, in fact, not pushing away, but pulling toward.
Betsy Keefer Smalley • Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families
It is estimated that adoption disruption rates are highest among children with special needs and older children, with rates ranging from 10 to 20 percent.
Betsy Keefer Smalley • Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families
Life is the teacher. Parents, teachers, and counselors are sympathetic participants/observers who act as coaches or mentors.