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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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The SKILL-ionaire in Every Child: Boosting Children’s Socio-Emotional Skills Using the Latest in Brain Research

A wide body of recent brain research shows that socio-emotional skills are best cultivated by experiences that evoke positive emotions. In this inspiring book, Dr.

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Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin
2025
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The Parent’s Guide to Occupational Therapy for Autism and Other Special Needs

With the help of this handy guide, you can bring tried and tested occupational therapy activities into your home and encourage your child to succeed with everyday tasks while having fun in the process.

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Cara Koscinski
2025
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Ticked-Off Teen Daughters and Stressed-Out Moms: 3 Keys | Colleen O’Grady | TEDxWilmington

In this talk Colleen O’Grady provides 3 ways to improve the relationship between moms and their teen daughters. Colleen O’Grady is changing what’s possible for mother and teenage daughter relationships around the world.

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2017
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Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child

Parents have an important task: figure out who their child is—his or her skills, preferences, beliefs, values, personality traits, goals, and direction—get comfortable with it, and then help them pursue and live a life according to it.

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Ross W. Greene
2025
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The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years

In The Family Firm, Brown professor of economics and mom of two Emily Oster offers a classic business school framework for data-driven parents to think and problem-solve more deliberately about the key issues of the elementary years: school, health, extracurricular activities, and more.

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Emily Oster
2021
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Words of Wisdom: Alex Pang on the Importance of Rest

During a sabbatical, Alex Pang suddenly found himself to be much more productive than he usually was. When he started reading about the science of rest, he discovered that finding a balance between work and relaxation is the ultimate recipe for a valuable life.

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2018
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