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Killing Our Child Was Not an OptionKilling Our Child Was Not an Option
From someone who's been there, this is a story about loving your child, respecting life, and standing by your convictions.
Building Adult Capabilities to Improve Child Outcomes: A Theory of Change
This 5-minute video depicts a theory of change from the Frontiers of Innovation community for achieving breakthrough outcomes for vulnerable children and fam...
Raise a Child Who Loves Life
Can you actually teach your kid to laugh often, be an optimist, and enjoy every day? Research says yes.
5 things parents can do to boost a child's self-confidence
Raising confident kids is a balancing act. Two childhood development experts reveal how to navigate it.
How to End the Child-Care Crisis
A child’s first 1,000 days are a time to be seized.
10 Things to Do When a Foster Child Is Returning Home
What do you do when a foster child is returning home? If you’ve had a foster child in your home for any length of time, you know how easy it is for foster parents to get attached. However, since reunification is always the original goal of foster care, what can a foster parent do when […]
How to Raise Creative Children
Three rules that might make your child a future Nobel Prize winner
Tips for Helping Your Child Focus and Concentrate
Concentration is like a muscle that requires regular exercise to strengthen.
Becoming a Foster Parent: How to Make it Work
Being a foster family is a very specific situation, unlike any other, you are supposed to love a child as your own, but only for a while. Ho...
Teach Your Daughter How to Deal With Bullies
If your child is being bullied, she'll need some help learning how to stand up for herself and when to get help.
How can foster parents and birth parents successfully co-parent?
It can be quite difficult having a foster child in your home. He or she may have been placed in your home because of abuse or neglect from his family. Perhaps he was in danger from parents who were abusing themselves. Whatever the reason for his placement into the child welfare’s custody, your foster child has most likely come to you with some emotional problems and is struggling with the loss of his family.
Prevent Child Abuse America
With Pinwheels for Prevention, the pinwheel has come to serve as the physical embodiment and reminder of the great childhoods we want for all children.
Finding the Right Mentor for Your Child
When you reflect on your own life, you can probably pin point the key adults that helped to inspire and support you over the course of your childhood and adolescence. Whether it was someone you met through a formalized mentoring program or people you knew through your school, church or community, these folks helped to shape you into the person that you have become. It is important that all kids have positive adult role models, besides their parents, throughout their lives. Research has…
5 Questions to Ask a Child Psychologist
Find the right psychologist for your child and your family.
Can You Really Afford a New Child?
Many parents fail to plan fully for the financial impact of a newborn.
What’s Going on Inside the Brain Of A Curious Child?
New research suggests that curiosity triggers chemical changes in the brain that help students better understand and retain information.
3 Questions to Ask Your Child Every Night
Ask your child these 3 questions every night to help your child learn how to verbally express themselves and to help you learn about their day.
Learned Helplessness: Are You Doing Too Much for Your Child?
Under functioners are skilled in the art of learned helplessness. They have quite literally learned to be helpless, because someone was always there to pick up the pieces for them.
Who's your 'favorite child'? Is that really a JetBlue security question?
It's the age-old question that has created tension between siblings for centuries: Who is the favorite child?
Should I Consider Adoption for My Child? Open Adoption & Family Services
Should you consider adoption for your chilld? We'll help you create an open adoption relationship in which you feel at home: warm, welcomed and accepted.
