What Is Kinship Care?
How do you define kinship care? First you must answer the question “What is a family?” The last generation has seen many changes in how “family” is defined: from largely extended families to a nuclear...
View ArticleKinship Care Notes #22
Dear friends of kinship care – Welcome to a new era (we hope) that may recognize kinship care as a critical piece of raising healthy children in body and spirit. Thanks to all who took advantage of the...
View ArticleSaving Pirate Ryan
My grandson is into pirates. Between the daily swashbuckling, the crooked bandanas and the black eye patch, I try to sneak in lessons about bad pirates and good pirates. It’s difficult sometimes...
View ArticleRaising My Grandchild While Living On A Sailboat
By: Nita Knighton Thirty eight years ago my husband and I had a dream to live on a sailboat when our children were grown and on there own. Three children later, marital problems and “life” itself tried...
View ArticleKinship Care Resources
Information and help for grandparents who are raising their grandchildren AARP Raising Grandchildren Washington, DC 888-687-2277 Helps grandparents cope with their parenting role Advocates for...
View ArticleIt Takes a Village to Raise a Grandchild
By Lily Prellezo When my husband and I were raising our two daughters, I felt my family was more than enough to bring up our children. Not until I became a grandmother helping to raise grandchildren...
View ArticleWhen a Child Is Removed from the Parents’ Home
Kinship care options and advice for grandparents of kids in the child-welfare system By Cathleen J. Newbanks The Fostering Connections Act (2009) mandates that child-welfare workers locate and...
View ArticleSure Cure for the Senior-Time Blues
Humor Therapy for the Elderly By Dr. Marion Somers My 76-year-old father used to laugh all the time, but ever since he started having problems with his health, he stopped smiling and laughing. How...
View ArticleOvercompensation: How Not to Deal with a Troubled Grandchild
It takes nurturing and discipline to raise grandchildren who are struggling with the absence or loss of a parent By Silvie de Toledo, LCSW/BCD Henrietta Casper has a problem. Her 15-year-old grandson...
View ArticleA Bond So Deep
The importance of child - caregiver attachment By Elaine K. Williams Having a strong emotional bond to a parent or parental figure is important to early childhood development. The quality of this...
View ArticleEncore Parenting: When Your Grandchild Has ADHD
By Elaine K. Williams, LMSW / CHt | What you need to know and do if you are a grandparent raising a grandchild who has, or might have, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder | Grandparents who...
View ArticleKinship Care On The Rise: Child Welfare League Of America Is Here To Help
BY RACHEL ADAMS, EDITOR, CWLA According to 2013 data provided by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, almost 3 million children in the United States are not being raised by their biological parents, but by...
View ArticleNew Grandfamily Resources To Open The Kinship Toolbox
BY JAIA PETERSON LENT With more and more grandfamilies, we’re seeing more media articles and scholarly research. But if you are a grandparent who has just begun raising your grandchild, where do you...
View ArticleNew Grandfamily Resources
BY JAIA PETERSON LENT With growing attention to the phenomenon of grandfamilies, we see increasing numbers of media articles and scholarly research about these families. But if you are a grandparent...
View ArticleIt Takes a Village to Raise a Grandchild
By Lily Prellezo When my husband and I were raising our two daughters, I felt my family was more than enough to bring up our children. Not until I became a grandmother helping to raise grandchildren...
View ArticleWhen a Child Is Removed from the Parents’ Home
Kinship care options and advice for grandparents of kids in the child-welfare system By Cathleen J. Newbanks The Fostering Connections Act (2009) mandates that child-welfare workers locate and...
View ArticleSure Cure for the Senior-Time Blues
Humor Therapy for the Elderly By Dr. Marion Somers My 76-year-old father used to laugh all the time, but ever since he started having problems with his health, he stopped smiling and laughing. How...
View ArticleOvercompensation: How Not to Deal with a Troubled Grandchild
It takes nurturing and discipline to raise grandchildren who are struggling with the absence or loss of a parent By Sylvie de Toledo, LCSW/BCD Henrietta Casper has a problem. Her 15-year-old grandson...
View ArticleA Bond So Deep
The importance of child – caregiver attachment By Elaine K. Williams Having a strong emotional bond to a parent or parental figure is important to early childhood development. The quality of this...
View ArticleEncore Parenting: When Your Grandchild Has ADHD
By Elaine K. Williams, LMSW / CHt | What you need to know and do if you are a grandparent raising a grandchild who has, or might have, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder | Grandparents who...
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