Perspectives on Challenged Family Building

It seems fitting that our first post after the start of the New Year contains a wish for peace. Peace in the family is a resolution worth making and attaining.

Peace, in the family, begins with the parental statement, “I will be calmer in 2010.” In reality, this means learning to bypass angry interactions that occur [...]

“Where touching begins, there love and humanity also begin…”
Ashley Montagu
When I write posts about behavior, and ways to manage or entirely cease behaviors, I always work to write a portion of the post that provides some explanation for the behavior, and then I offer some solutions. I believe that understanding more about where a [...]

Welcome to Part 4—our final post on “why” traumatized children steal and “what you can do” to help move your adopted child to honesty. Today, we continue with our menu of solutions. The solutions correspond to those factors identified in Parts 1 and 2 as the more common reasons children continue their thievery over very [...]