How to Talk to Your Children About Their Past: Tips for Foster and Adoptive Parents
Foster parents are fortunate in that children learn to trust them with very difficult topics. At the same time, sometimes we’re caught off guard when children decide that they’re ready to share. Here are six brief tips about how to approach the conversation.
Increasing Connection: Strategies for Families
We know that a feeling of connection to your family is really important but sometimes we lose sight of that importance when other tasks and responsibilities are draining our energy and mental resources. Here you will find some practical strategies and ideas for increasing family connection while also balancing the everyday demands of life.
Sensory Play to Save the Day
Toddlers have a lot of big feelings and long list of needs and wants. Many parents may think these behavior have to do with something they are doing wrong, when often times it is just the developmental stage of the child.
What Really Matters
Parents, now more than ever is the time to take a deep breath and ask yourself, “What really matters?” Take a hard look at your family, in your household, in your situation and ask, “What are the things that I can let go of and what are the things that I cannot?”
Managing Stress: 10 Ways to Find Peace
When we are in a state of fear it can be extremely difficult to move to a place of rest, play, and sound thinking. It is critical that we stop thinking of self-care as a luxury and begin to think of it as survival. Luckily there are some quick, inexpensive, and accessible ways to combat stress.
The Practice of Accepting “No”
Acceptance is a struggle for many of us. We want to examine, complain, look for resources, try to find a quick fix, complain some more, lay awake worrying, find someone else to blame and then give up. When you have a challenging child it’s very hard to slow down. It’s hard to find this so-called “balance”.
Keeping Your Children Safe from Sexual Exploitation and Online Predators
If you haven’t already heard the terms Sex Trafficking and Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking (DMST) you will be hearing them soon. In fact, Texas has proclaimed January to be Human Trafficking Prevention Month. STARRY wants to educate parents and bring awareness to this important issue.