Foster Parenting

"De Rêve à Réalité" est plus qu’un simple livre, c’est un guide audio inspirant pour quiconque souhaite transformer ses aspirations en succès concrets. Dylan Foster, expert en développement personnel et motivation, vous accompagne pas à pas dans ce voyage de transformation. À travers des anecdotes captivantes, des outils pratiques et des stratégies éprouvées, découvrez comment : Surmonter vos doutes et blocages personnels, Cultiver une vision claire de vos objectifs, Établir un plan d’action réaliste et puissant, Exploiter vos ressources cachées et maximiser votre potentiel.

What does it take to keep a child safe? As a long-time strategist and activist fighting for better outcomes for foster children, Mark Daley thought he knew the answer. But when Ethan and Logan, an adorable infant and a precocious toddler, entered their lives, Mark and his husband Jason quickly realized they were not remotely prepared for the uncertainty and complication of foster parenting.

You are not alone in building a child's brain. If you're having trouble convincing your kids to talk more politely or to disagree less... If you are unable to figure out how to prevent your child from reaching the top bunk or convince him to change before opening the front door, If you're annoyed that you have to say the same thing over and over again, such as "Hurry! You're going to be late for school!" or if you have to have another argument over screen time, schoolwork, or sleep, You are not alone if you have encountered any of these annoyances.

Children’s future successes depend on developing the abilities to innovate, be resilient in the face of their mistakes, problem-solve creatively, and collaborate with peers effectively. However, standard American educational practices—stressing memorization, grades, and testing—are failing to foster these skills. There is one complete system of education that effectively supports the natural development of such essential abilities: Montessori. Montessori education expert Paula Lillard Preschlack offers a clear explanation of how the Montessori approach helps children.

From this inauspicious beginning, entirely without support, Crystal Lindsey has created a system for survival allowing her to thrive and develop her emotional resilience. Crystal knows trauma unlocks superpowers, and she has developed biohacks to show you how to discover your own superpowers using daily gratitude and grit psychology. She gives you a story of hope and optimism while "getting real" about the challenges you will face in adulthood after growing up with abuse and/or aging out of foster care.

The Power of Now is a gentle introduction to the life-changing power of mindfulness. This book is perfect for beginners. It offers simple guidance on meditation and awareness practices, making mindfulness accessible to all.

Faith to Foster is a candid look into the life of ordinary foster parents T.J. and Jenn Menn. It is a journey chronicling their decision-making process, how the children arrived, the birth parents struggle to rehabilitate, help from friends and family, emotional goodbyes, and how faith in Jesus empowered them through it all. TJ and Jenn share their experiences and feelings in a way that encourages any listener to serve their neighbors, not just foster parents. Faith to Foster reminds Christians how God can use them to make a difference in their community.

One cold November night, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, fifteen-year-old Richard Jahnke Jr., ROTC leader and former Boy Scout, waited for his parents to return from celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the night they met. When his father got out of the car, the boy blasted him through the heart with a twelve-gauge pump-action shotgun. Richard's seventeen-year-old sister, Deborah, was sitting on the living room couch with a high-powered rifle - just in case her brother missed.

Exhausting schedules and a tumultuous work environment have left many nurses feeling burned out. The COVID-19 pandemic only compounded problems that have been plaguing nurses for decades. How can you take care of others when you don't have the time or energy to take care of yourself? In Courageous Well-Being for Nurses, Advanced Practice Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse, psychotherapist, and educator Donna Gaffney and National Board-certified health and wellness coach Nicole Foster provide essential strategies and resources.

Michael K. Simpson, a senior consultant to FranklinCovey, has spent more than twenty-five years training executives to become effective coaches, mentoring and guiding leaders and managers to encourage and develop the talent of their people - the most important asset in any organization. In this guide, you will acquire the skills to coach your personnel from the ground up, maximizing their potential on a personal level, as members of the team, and as contributors to the organization as a whole.

Best-selling audiobook on a young man's traumatic childhood in foster care. In 1990, at the age of t10, Daryl Brougham was told by a social worker he was useless and would end up in jail. By 1997, he had attended 27 schools, been through over 30 social workers and lived in more than 30 different foster homes. During his 18 years as a state ward he suffered repeated sexual, physical, emotional, and psychological abuse. Rising above all the abuse, Daryl proved that social worker wrong. A quality New Zealand audiobook.

Are you considering remarrying but feeling a mix of excitement and worry? Concerned about blending families or repeating past mistakes? Comprehensive Guide to Remarriage Success offers essential advice, proven strategies, and real-life insights to help you navigate the complexities of remarriage and build a strong, joyful partnership.

Wards of the State by journalist and author Claudia Rowe widens an eye-opening case from a true-crime lens to an exploration of the foster care-to-prison pipeline. The system is broken—hundreds of thousands of children every year leave America’s $30 billion dollar foster care system and enter its prisons, where in some cases, 75 percent of inmates are former foster kids. Through the stories of eight former foster kids, Rowe illustrates exactly where, when, and how the system is failing the children that it parents.

Have you ever thought you’d adopt a child(ren), but after finding out it costs thousands of dollars, kicked that idea to the curb? Most people believe that all children in foster care return to their biological families. Many do not know that 50 percent of children in foster care need an adoptive family and that adopting children through foster care costs zero to $2,500. One hundred twenty thousand US children who are ready to be adopted are hoping you’ll listen to this book.

The Stress Book takes a comprehensive approach to stress management and how modifying your lifestyle and taking practical steps can help significantly reduce the level of stress you are experiencing.

Heal Your Inner Child with Affirmations & Hypnosis is a transformative guide designed to help you release the deep emotional wounds of childhood trauma. Through a powerful combination of affirmations and hypnosis, this audiobook gently guides you on a journey of self-healing, empowering you to rebuild your self-worth and cultivate a life filled with self-love and inner peace.

If you're a foster parent seeking to infuse hope, love, and strength into your journey, this book is your sanctuary. Join a community of foster parents who understand your path and your dreams. Embrace the power of affirmations and illuminate the way to a nurturing, bonding, and future-shaping journey.

This book on anger management will take you through how best you can relate to others including those in your office and at home. It will educate you on the aspect of anger you are not familiar with and give you a new orientation on the wrong information you have gathered about anger. Right actions and reactions rely on accurate knowledge.

Evie and Elliot are scrawny, filthy and scared when they turn up on foster carer Maggie Hartley's doorstep. Aged just two and three years old, this brother and sister have hardly set foot outside their own home. They have been prisoners, locked in a world of abuse, violence and neglect. Maggie soon realises that Evie and Elliot are lacking the basic life skills we all take for granted, and the outside world terrifies them. Gradually unlocking the truth of their heartbreaking upbringing, Maggie tells their shocking true story.

Alexis Black persevered through her mother’s death and her father’s imprisonment. And after escaping a long and abusive relationship, the college junior promised her foster parents not to date for at least a year. But when she meets an incoming freshman on the first day of their scholarship program, she feels the world melt away, as though it were only the two of them in the room.