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Sleep
SLEEP Sleepless in Seattle? Birmingham? Charleston? San Antonio? Sleep disturbances are one of the most common challenges for a child transitioning to a new home. Causes for sleep disturbances can
Language of Adoption and Foster Care
WHAT NOT TO SAY APPROPRIATE ALTERNATIVES Birth Mothers: Is she going to give her baby up? or Is she going to put up her child for adoption? Place her child
Teaching Feelings, Self-Awareness & Boundaries
* Remember, one goal of parenting is to help teach our children to gain insight into their feelings and how those feelings affect their behaviors. * If your child stomps
Older Children & Tools for Discipline
Be a Role Model: * As parents, we must demonstrate or model what we want our children to do, especially when they do not have language to communicate with us
Resources For Babysitters and Childcare Workers
As a foster or adoptive parent, it is important for you to seek childcare for your children where the workers understand and can provide at least a very base level
Frequently Asked Questions about Counseling
At Lifeline, we know that families struggle post placement, and we expect challenges to arise as part of the journey. We desire to be a safe place where they can seek help from those struggles. Throughout the following frequently asked questions, we…
Equipped to Love
Equipped to Love is a resource to help family and friends support the adoptive and foster families in their church.
Orphanology
Orphanology unveils the grassroots movement that’s engaged in a comprehensive response to serve hundreds of millions of orphans and “functionally fatherless” children. In this book, you will see a breadth of ways to care with biblical perspective and reasons why we must….
Backyard Orphans
Backyard Orphans provides an online orphan care assessment for churches and leadership training and consultation.