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Why Is Self-Care Especially Important for Foster Parents?

By KVC West Virginia Staff — 2020

For parents, children can take up every waking thought and every ounce of energy outside of work. This is especially true for foster parents.

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Ready or Not: Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World

In The Price of Privilege, respected clinician, Madeline Levine was the first to correctly identify the deficits created by parents giving kids of privilege too much of the wrong things and not enough of the right things.

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Madeline Levine
2020
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Confident Parents, Confident Kids: Raising Emotional Intelligence in Ourselves and Our Kids—from Toddlers to Teenagers

How do we raise a happy, confident kid? And how can we be confident that our parenting is preparing our child for success? Our confidence develops from understanding and having a mastery over our emotions (aka emotional intelligence)—and helping our children do the same.

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Jennifer S. Miller
2019
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When the World Feels Like a Scary Place: Essential Conversations for Anxious Parents and Worried Kids

An urgent and necessary book, when the world feels like a scary place brings solutions to a problem that is only going to get worse—how bad things happening in the world affect our children, and how we can raise engaged and confident kids in spite of them.

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Abigail Gewirtz
2025
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Jewish Spiritual Parenting: Wisdom, Activities, Rituals and Prayers for Raising Children with Spiritual Balance and Emotional Wholeness

Parenting has never been easy―but in a culture that encourages more screen time than face time, how can you make sure that your children stay connected to what really matters in life? In this guidebook for building a strong framework for a Jewish life, Rabbi Paul Kipnes and Michelle November,...

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Rabbi Paul J. Kipnes, Michelle November MSSW
2015
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Kristen Bell Talks Work, Motherhood, and Battling Anxiety

“The Good Place” star opens ups about balancing motherhood, her life and personal health.

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2017
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Glennon Doyle Melton Expresses How She Felt About Being a Stay-at-Home Mom | SuperSoul Sunday | OWN

Oprah’s Book Club author, Glennon Doyle Melton, tells Oprah Winfrey about the time she leveled with another mother on how she felt as a stay-at-home mom.

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Glennon Doyle
2016
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Self-Care for Moms: 150+ Real Ways to Care for Yourself While Caring for Everyone Else

As a mom, you care—a lot. Whether it be physical, emotional, social, or practical, you’re there to attend to all of your family’s needs. But with so much to take care of, it can be hard to find time to care of yourself.

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Sara Robinson
2019
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Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tuesdays with Morrie comes Mitch Albom’s most personal story to date: An intimate and heartwarming memoir about what it means to be a family and the young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart.

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Mitch Albom
2019
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Mother Nurture: A Mother’s Guide to Health in Body, Mind, and Intimate Relationships

A multidisciplinary approach to health to mother coping with the challenges of raising young children in the twenty-first century presents hundreds of practical ideas on ways to help mothers enhance their moods, promote energy and health, and build intimacy with partners, discussing diet, stress...

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Rick Hanson, Jan Hanson, Ricki Pollycove
2002
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Honey, I Wrecked The Kids: When Yelling, Screaming, Threats, Bribes, Time-outs, Sticker Charts and Removing Privileges All Don't Work

Bringing the same perceptive and practical advice that made Breaking the Good Mom Myth an international bestseller, TV personality and psychotherapist Alyson Schafer again comes to the rescue of desperate parents everywhere.

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Alyson Schafer
2025
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