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Raise happy, healthier kids! Discover how to engage and communicate with children of all ages using these proven, practical techniques.Any parent, medical professional or teacher can immediately apply these universal tools when working with a wide range of conditions such as.. ADD/ ADHD . Developmental Delays. Allergies . Diabetes. Asperger's & Autism . Disabilities. Behavior Problems . Health Issues. Cystic Fibrosis . Learning DifficultiesThis condensed version includes the Love and Logic essentials from the award-winning book Parenting Children with Health Issues. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Children and Youth Services Review, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Although adoptions from foster care have increased dramatically in recent years, foster homes remain a critical resource within the child welfare system. Research has explored the factors associated with foster parents' decision to continue or cease providing foster care. However, we know little about the length of time for which foster parents provide service, nor about the foster parent characteristics and foster care provision associated with varying length of service. This study used administrative data from three states to conduct longitudinal analyses of foster parenting careers. It builds on previous research by producing the first unbiased estimates of length of service and examining variations in length of service in terms of foster parent characteristics and the amount and type of care provided. Median length of service was between 8 and 14 months. Foster parents with greater length of service are likely to be older; live in urban areas; care for more children at a given time; and care for more infants, adolescents, or children with special needs. In each state, a relatively small group of foster parents provided the majority of caregiving. These findings can guide development of strategies to increase retention and make better use of foster parenting resources. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Fathering, published by Men's Studies Press on January 1, 2010. The length of the article is 6684 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Foster fathers and carework: engaging alternate models of parenting.(Report)
Author: Damien W. Riggs
Publication: Fathering (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2010
Publisher: Men's Studies Press
Volume: 8Issue: 1Page: 24(13)

Article Type: Report

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Pantyhose Parenting is written by a mom with experience - not by experts in child rearing. In this book, you won't find 101 ways on how to raise perfect children or how to have a "sin-less" family. What you will find is a humorous way of looking at the life that God has given you, including sections on:*Laying the foundation for parenthood*Setting foundational principles*Encouraging virtues*Learning child-centered parenting.Mauldin is sharing with you the lessons about life and about raising children that she has learned from experience. This book will save you from making some errors that you would otherwise make and from experiencing pains that might have come to you. Once you become a parent, anything goes! Children are lovable, unpredictable and always surprising. Enjoy reading about the joys and triumphs, trials and tribulations that author Geri Mauldin relates with relish about raising her five children, including one foster child, with her husband, Alan. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on January 8, 2005. The length of the article is 616 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Conscious parenting fosters spirituality in children.(Columns)(Column)
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: January 8, 2005
Publisher: The Register Guard
Page: F4

Article Type: Column

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This study examined associations between foster mothers' emotional investment, assessed when foster children were age 2, and foster children's representations of self and others, assessed when children were age 5. Caregiver investment was assessed using a semi-structured interview called the ''This is My Baby'' interview (TIMB; Bates, B., & Dozier, M. (2002). The importance of maternal state of mind regarding attachment and infant age at placement to foster mothers' representations of their foster infants. Infant Mental Health Journal, 23, 417-431.) administered to foster mothers when their foster children were age 2. Self-representations were assessed using a projective puppet interview (Cassidy, J. (1988). Child-mother attachment and the self in six-year olds. Child Development, 59, 121-134.) when children were age 5. Children's ability to cope with separations from caregivers was examined using the Separation Anxiety Test (SAT; Main, M., Kaplan, N., & Cassidy, J. (1985). Security in infancy, childhood and adulthood: A move to the level of representation. In I. Bretherton & E. Waters (Eds.), Growing points in attachment theory and research. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 50, (Serial No. 209), 66-104.). As predicted, foster mothers who were more accepting of their children early in the child-caregiver relationship had foster children who developed more positive self-representations than children whose foster mothers were less accepting. Additionally, caregiver acceptance was associated with children's quality of coping responses in response to caregiver separations, with high caregiver acceptance associated with effective solutions to separation scenarios. ... Read more

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A practical technique that will help ease the transition from parenting a young child to parenting a teenager. ... Read more

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Helping Children Discover and Celebrate Their StrengthsStarting the first day of school, homework is a fact of life. Even the youngest students will need to complete their homework assignments. Often both the child and the parent become resentful. Now you can turn the homework battle into a positive interaction. Parental excitement, interest, and enthusiasm about the things a child does right are the key to getting a child to be more cooperative about doing homework. When parents use Jim Fay and Foster W. Cline's Love and Logic approach to homework, children end up seeing themselves as winners! by Jim Fay and Foster W. Cline, M.D audio CD, 60 min. ... Read more

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This book contains guidelines for having discussions with your foster child while reading THE STAR: A STORY TO HELP YOUNG CHILDREN UNDERSTAND FOSTER CARE.Also included are insights about what foster children often go through, along with questions and activities which relate to specific pages from the story.The information in this book is appropriate to use with most 4- to 11-year-old foster children. ... Read more

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Simple and Effective Guide for Caregiviers
This handbook is a must for adults who wish to ease a child's transition into a foster care situation.It is user friendly and provides tools that caregivers can use to help nurture the bond between themselves and fosterchildren.The workbook is short.It isn't intimidating. Itprovides questions about the story, THE STAR, that foster parents andprofessionals can use to indirectly gain more understanding of the fosterchild's experience.It also includes fun activities for both children andadults that can help break the ice.

Foster parents may beunpleasantly surprised by foster children's hesitancy to get close to them.This booklet can serve as a guide to help adults to effectively help eachunique child.The beauty of this book is that the author is anexperienced foster parent (in addition to being educated in psychology andpediatric nursing).Her experience in working with children, who have beendeeply wounded, helps her to effectively relate to the unique issues thatfoster parents and pediatric professionals may face.The bigbonus is that a pediatric psychologist co-authored the workbook.Theperson who reads this short book is truly receiving sound information. This is a quality product and a must for people who work with children. ... Read more

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Helpful, Although It Is An Instructor's Guide
This is a good resource book for people who are adopting although it is written as an instructor's guide for people who are teaching a course on adoptive parenting. Has helpful information about parenting issues related to adoption such as special issues related to adoption, infertility and adoption, preparing your self, family and friends, and adoptive nursing. Also as some very limited general information about baby care, growth, and child proofing. Has a list of resources and a very extensive bibliography. Only gave 3 stars becuase the parts about establishing a program, doing publicity, teaching styles and program evaluation did not apply to me. The book overall is helpful becuase there are not classes avavilable in my area for poeple considering adoptive parenting. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Social Work Research, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2005. The length of the article is 6095 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Foster Parent College: interactive multimedia training for foster parents.(RESEARCH NOTE)
Author: Caesar Pacifici
Publication: Social Work Research (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 29Issue: 4Page: 243(9)

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The Lives of Foster Carers analyzes the contradictions, conflicts, and ambiguities experienced by foster carers arising from the inter-penetrations of public bureaucracy and private family life. Topics covered include:

• social policy pertinent to childcare
• the history of foster care service
• available literature on the experience of foster carers
• public versus private domains in foster care
• motivations and roles of foster carers
• how foster carers perceive themselves and their foster children.

Based on a wide range of literature and in-depth interviews with forty-six foster carers, this book provides a valuable insight into the concerns, processes and experiences of foster carers in the UK. Jargon free and accessible, it will appeal to foster carers, practitioners, students and academics in social care, youth work and childcare as well as policy makers in children’s services.