In Their Best Interest

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  • Learn common stressors that “resident siblings” have that can trip them up and cause trauma in their own lives.
  • Gain valuable skills to recognize when your resident child needs more from you and why.
  • Learn how to help them cope with the changes that come to them personally when the family fosters or adopts.
  • Enhance open communication at home where everyone feels heard.
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How To Tap Into Your Parenting Strengths To Support Your Resident Children 

You Can Meet Their Hidden Needs, Gain Traction As A Thriving Family, And Experience More Joy In Your Family Again.

Discover The Connected Parenting Strategies That Work to Both Prevent AND Decrease Secondary Trauma in Siblings of Foster and Adopted Children.

In Their Best Interest shows you:

  • How to begin today to take back some of the lost ground as a family you have experienced parenting children from traumatic backgrounds.
  • How to set your family communication environment up for success even before the foster or adopted child comes home.​
  • How to spot and decrease the kinds of secondary stresses that many resident kids face but don’t tell parents about.
  • The connected parenting strategies that help parents go from confusion and helplessness to parenting in power and success one strategy at a time.

Inside Of This One-of-a-Kind Book, Here Are A Few Of The Insider Secrets That You'll Be Given...

  • The one major mindset shift that is needed to support resident kids in ways that no one has been talking about before. Page 9 
  • How to set yourself up for parenting success – to do and not just to dream. Page 18
  • One thing you can do immediately to gain your resident child’s trust. Page 25
  • How to stop guessing and know for certain whether your resident children are facing secondary stresses. Chapter 2 and Page 164 
  • ​What to do next if you're already seeing your resident kids struggle. Chapter 16
  • How one common parenting mistake really hurt my resident children and how you can avoid this pitfall. Page 66
  • How to create a unique relationship with each of your children, no matter how different they all are from each other. Chapter 15 
  • Discover how to get even the most reluctant child to share their life with you - without hunting them down with 50 questions. Chapter 11 
  • How to not waste time building on a faulty foundation. This method helps you validate your child’s worth and preciousness. Chapter 13
  • My simple one-action strategy that works wonders for creating trust between you and your child. Chapter 14 
  • A hidden force potentially threatening your resident child’s well-being and what you can do to spot it and deal with it. Chapter 5
  • The truth about why your resident kids can suffer from secondary traumatic stress... get this right and you can greatly increase your support for your kids in tangible ways. Chapter 2
  • How to adjust your parenting for ALL personality types, so all your children can feel listened to and understood. Chapter 11
  • ​My #1 piece of advice for parents who have been fostering or have adopted for a long time. Chapter 16
  • ​The reason why most expectations of perfect family harmony are not realistic. Chapter 8
  • I'll remove the overwhelm when it comes to identifying secondary traumatic responses in resident kids by clearly outlining what to look for. Chapter 2
  • ​Here's the BEST way to get honest feedback about how fostering or adopting actually affects your resident kids. Chapter 12
  • The most important thing for parents to remember Page 156
  • How to use one simple word and increase your child’s connection to you. Page 145 
  • Why adding one activity to your already busy schedule could offer untold benefits to your resident kids. Chapter 10

You can put these tools, strategies, and steps into action, so you can stop dreaming about a more resilient family and start DOING from your own parenting strengths.

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