Everyday Ways to Connect with Your Adopted or Fostered Child: Over 200 Quick and Simple Ways to Build Relationships and Open Conversations (Paperback) - Fiona Biggar

A lifeline for parents of adopted or fostered children looking for simple and easy to use therapeutic parenting ideas and activities. This book features creative strategies that will help you to nurture a strong connection with your child, based on trust, compassion, and safety.

This indispensable guide has over 200 simple, easy to implement therapeutic parenting activities which you can easily build into everyday life. Starting with a simple explanation of therapeutic parenting and how to do it, it provides a host of strategies and activities to help tackle common challenges faced by families affected by trauma. This includes improving communication and relationships, lessening conflict, building confidence, creating structure and routine, and handling big emotions. The activities range from short daily check-ins to reinforce attachment through to creative therapeutic activities.
The ideas in this book will help create an environment of acceptance, safety, and respect, and enable you and your child to build a stronger, more connected relationship.

About the Author

Fiona Biggar is an adoptive parent who has worked for a number of years supporting adoptive parents in therapeutic parenting one-to-one and through workshops with Adoption UK. She is a coach, NLP practitioner, and parent mentor. She lives in Edinburgh.