Public Libraries of Suffolk County, New York

Honestly adoption, Mike & Kristin Berry

eng

no index present

non fiction

Honestly adoption

Mike & Kristin Berry

If you are considering adoption or foster care or are already somewhere in this difficult and complicated process, you need trusted information from people who have been where you are

Adoption Conversations -- Should I adopt? -- Should I foster? -- Should I foster to adopt? -- How should I prepare to be a foster parent? -- What difficulties should I be prepared for as a foster parent? -- I'm not called to foster or adopt, so how can I help? -- Do children need to know they were adopted? -- How can I tell out child he or she was adopted? -- Sometimes I believe a false narrative about out child's adoption What should I do? -- How should I respond to people who praise me for adopting? -- Adoption Relationships -- Will our child ever love me? -- Will I ever love our child? -- Will our child and I ever have a healthy relationship? -- Will I be able to love our children equally? -- How can we keep out forever children from reeling neglected? -- How can we prepare our forever children before fostering? -- How should we explain foster care to our forever children? -- How can we prepare our forever children to share with foster children? -- What should I do if my forever children are resistant to fostering? -- What should I do if I'm fostering or adopting out of birth order? -- How will fostering change our forever kids? -- Why is open adoption becoming more popular? -- How should we prepare to meet our child's birth parents for the first time? -- How can we maintain an open relationship if our child's birth parents are rarely available? -- How can we include the birth family in a natural way? -- What if our child idealizes his or her birth family? -- How do we maintain a connection with the birth family even when it's difficult? -- How can we support our child when the birth parents terminate their parental rights? -- How can I support the first parents when they lose their parental rights? -- What if safety is a concern? -- What if the birth family cannot connect in a healthy way? -- What if my adult child stops communicating with me? -- How can we initiate a conversation with our child's school about trauma? -- How can we identify people who are not helpful? -- Attachment Parenting -- Why aren't traditional parenting methods working for us? -- What are some traditional parenting methods to avoid? -- What do kids who have experienced trauma need? -- How can we find the right therapist for our family? -- What should I do when our child acts out and needs discipline? -- How can I encourage my family and close friends to support our parenting style? -- Can we overdo therapeutic parenting? -- Empowering Children -- Why is it important to empower our children? -- How can I empower our children to face difficult situations? -- How can I empower our children to process the good parts of their story? -- How can we empower children with two families to embrace their own identity? -- How can we reach our kids how to advocate for their own needs? -- How can I empower our children to own their own stories? -- How can I empower our child to have their own relationship with biological family members? -- How can I empower our child to love and care for himself? -- What can I do to help our child endure disappointment? -- How can I empower our child to grieve? -- How can I empower our child to build healthy attachments? -- How can I empower our child to utilize resources as he or she grows older? -- Trauma -- How will understanding our child's trauma help me as a parent? -- What should I do if I reel afraid of our child's birth family? -- Should I talk about our child's past trauma with them? -- How can I help our child process the hard parts of their story? -- What should I do if our child talks publicly about their trauma? -- How much should I tell teachers about our child's trauma? -- What should I do if professionals disregard our child's prenatal exposure to drugs, alcohol, and trauma? -- What should I do when our child hoards, lies, and steals? -- How should I respond if our child damages property? -- How should I respond when our child provokes other children? -- What should I do when our child acts out against our family pet? -- How can I help our child establish healthy sleeping habits? -- How can I relieve our child's anxiety at bedtime? -- What should I do if our child resists sleeping in his or her own room? -- How can I help a child sleep in our home for the first time? -- How can I teach our child to relax at night without a bottle or other food? -- How can I keep our sleepwalking child safe? -- When a child requires supervision 24 hours a day, how can I keep them safe and rest too? -- How can I help children who have frequent nightmares? -- How can I help a child who wets the bed and then can't go back to sleep? -- What should I do if my toddler wakes up at night and needs me there to fall back asleep? -- What should I do if our child is daytime or nighttime wetting? -- What should I do if our child is hoarding food? -- Why does our child seem lazy? -- What can I do if our child doesn't seem to care about anything? -- What should I do if out child lies about everything? -- How should I handle an older child's tantrum in public? -- What should I do if our child is downloading pornography? -- "What should I do when my teen displays risky behavior? -- Why is my teenager so angry with me? -- A Safety Plan -- What is a safety plan and how can I create one? -- How can our child follow their safety plan in public without embarrassment? -- What if our adult child cannot be independent? -- What can we do if our child is thinking about or has attempted suicide? -- Self-Care -- What if I don't want to ask for help? -- What are some simple ways I can practice self-care? -- How can our kids practice self-care? -- How can I care for my marriage? -- How can my spouse and I handle disagreements? -- How can we make the most of our date nights? -- Adoptee Perspectives -- Do you have a relationship with your biological family? -- Do you celebrate your adoption day? -- How can a family help a new child feel welcome? -- Do you feel like you can talk with your adoptive family about your emotions? -- Do you want your adoptive family to ask questions about your birth family and adoption? -- What do you wish people would stop saying about adoption? -- What should adoptive parents do when others talk about adoption inappropriately? -- Did your name change when you were adopted?

adult