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Fostering Kids: What No One Tells You About Foster Care

2020

Are you ready to be a foster parent? Foster care is not for the faint of heart because foster care children require extra love and care. The foster care system doesn't always prepare you for everything you need to know to get started. See more...

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Mayo Clinic Guide to Raising a Healthy Child

Between the terrible twos and the teenage years, your child will undergo many transformative and, at times, challenging phases.

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Dr. Angela C. Mattke
2019
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Parenting with Pride—Latino Style: How to Help Your Child Cherish Your Cultural Values and Succeed in Today’s World

From a distinguished psychologist, mother, and Latina, Parenting with Pride—Latino Style offers the first bicultural child-rearing approach for Latino parents.

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Carmen Inoa Vazquez
2025
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Mom’s Viral Photo Captures the Heartbreak and Joy of Foster Parenting

A family brought back together and healed is a wonderful thing, but on the other side of that is a foster family left with a broken heart.

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Genevieve Shaw Brown
2021
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The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids

What makes Denmark the happiest country in the world—and how do Danish parents raise happy, confident, successful kids, year after year? This upbeat and practical book presents six essential principles, which spell out P-A-R-E-N-T: • Play is essential for development and well-being.

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Jessica Joelle Alexander, Iben Sandahl
2016
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Becoming a Stepparent

Becoming a stepparent by blending families or marrying someone with kids can be rewarding and fulfilling. If you've never had kids, you'll get the chance to share your life with a younger person and help to shape his or her character.

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Maia Noeder
2018
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Self-Care for Foster Parents

Parenting foster children who have come to your home from trauma, neglect or abuse is likely the hardest work you will ever do. It requires you to have a wide variety of tools in your parenting toolbox. Self-care for foster parents is one of the most important tools you can have in that toolbox.

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Creating a Family Staff
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The Foster Parenting Manual: A Practical Guide to Creating a Loving, Safe and Stable Home

The Foster Parenting Manual is a comprehensive guide offering proven, friendly advice for novice and experienced parents alike. Distilling many years’ experience into one book, John DeGarmo combines his own wisdom with that of fellow foster parents.

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John DeGarmo
2025
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Dancing with a Porcupine: Parenting Wounded Children without Losing Your Self

Parenting is hard. So what do you do when you’re parenting a child who has experienced trauma or has extra challenges? You often feel alone and inadequate. You want so much to help your child, but you are at the end of your own rope. You feel guilty that sometimes you want to just quit.

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Jennie Lynn Owens
2025
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Life as a Stepmother is No Fairytale—I Feel Sorry for My Wife

The children are angry and vulnerable, the father sides with them out of guilt, and stepmothers are just expected to suck it all up

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Tim Lott
2015
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No Sugar Coating: The Coffee Talk You Need About Foster Parenting

No Sugar-Coating is a warm, straight-up guide that reads like a conversation with a knowledgeable friend. It is filled with practical suggestions interwoven with compelling narrative rooted in foster parenting experience.

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Jillana Goble
2025
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