Everyday Ways to Connect with Your Adopted or Fostered Child

This indispensable guide has over 200 simple, easy to implement therapeutic parenting activities which you can easily build into everyday life. Starting with a simple explanation of therapeutic parenting and how to do it, this book provides a host of strategies and activities to help tackle common challenges faced by families affected by trauma, including improving communication and relationships, lessening conflict, building confidence, creating structure and routine and handling big emotions. The activities range from short check ins to reinforce attachment to building a wonderful wall of your child's achievements. The techniques and ideas in this book will help you to create an environment of acceptance, safety, and respect for you and your child to build the relationship you both want and need.