Attachment & Bonding

Make your child’s cultural heritage a part of your family’s story.

Assisting kids who’ve been adopted to give voice to their feelings in healthy ways.

Don’t panic, if you’re a new dad! You will bond and feel more at ease with their new little one, in time.

Helping my son recognize the schemes of the Enemy.

Facts to help you through the adoption process.

Has your middle school child set up boundaries or built protective walls to shut you out? Be the dad who can, well, interrupt once in a while.

Children in foster care don’t always get the best start in life.

When you bring your baby home from the hospital, the rigors of basic training begin.

When our second daughter, Nichole, was born, she surprised us by showing up with an extra chromosome. The diagnosis of Down syndrome was the hardest thing that Andy and I had ever faced as parents. We loved her immediately, of course, but there were endless tears and questions about her future. Nichole would not be …

Suggestions for an effective bonding experience

Attachment is the affectional tie between two people.

The sensitive parent is attuned to his or her child’s natural rhythms and responds to those appropriately and timely.

If there is even one significant adult in a child’s life who will provide consistency and unconditional love and support, that child can attach.

This clever discipline method is less exhausting and more successful than ranting, raving, blaming, pleading, begging or threatening.

How to choose a hobby that the whole family can enjoy