In The Connecting Link: What Parents Need to Bring Healing to Their Children, delivered at the 2009 Tapestry Adoption & Foster Care Conference, Dr. Purvis provides parents with a better ...
The adoption of a child is always a joyous moment in the life of a family. Some adoptions, though, present unique challenges. Welcoming these children into your family--and addressing their special ...
In The Adoption Network, Laura Christianson, founder and director of Seattle-based Heartbeat Ministries, walks you through the basics of planning and launching a support system for adoptive ...
We believe it is critically important that parents who are preparing to adopt or foster a child must be honest and realistic about the journey and the challenges that lie ahead. Just as Jesus in ...
Telling a child he or she is adopted can be a trying task, but this is only the first step. After becoming aware that he or she is adopted, the child will question the details of the adoption. The ...
This book defines a man's path from boyhood to old age. It outlines what being a father, husband, son, brother out to be. It encourages males at every step in their life to not shy away from ...
For many families, the arrival of a child is met with eager anticipation. Welling with joy and excitement, these parents’ lives and actions toward their child manifest a deep awareness that children ...
One day I came home from working at our local children's home and asked my husband what he thought about becoming a foster parent. He had numerous fears and logical concerns.Many men are good ...
In this brief video, Dr. Karyn Purvis explains the benefits of parents sharing appropriate amounts of power with their children through choice giving, compromises and other means. By sharing power ...
Parents often focus much of their attention on obtaining the right skills and strategies to effectively deal with misbehavior — and this is for good reason. All parents of children from hard places ...
This webinar, hosted by the Christian Alliance for Orphans, highlights the Safe Families Model which provides a transformational alternative to foster care that makes the homes of local ...
Thirteen years ago as I prepared for the adoption of my first daughter I, like many other parents, embarked upon reading every piece of “helpful” guidance that I could find. The plethora of ...
In many Bibles, Christ's words are set apart with a red font. It should be obvious, but this distinction helps remind us that when God becomes Man and that Man speaks it's probably something we ...
This book is valuable reading for anyone concerned about children at risk worldwide. In Reaching Children in Need, the founder and International Director of Viva Network, Patrick McDonald, tells the ...
As most adoptive parents are aware, a secure attachment is key to a child’s healthy development. Attachment is defined as a child’s bond to a caregiver based on the caregiver’s sensitivity and ...
Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child is a remarkably comprehensive and useful resource for both parents and practitioners. This book is a wise roadmap that anyone adopting internationally ...
In the adoption community we talk a lot about the need to parent the adopted or foster child differently. Over the 12 years since our first adoption I have honestly gone back and forth over this ...
Watch as Dr. Purvis provides practical insight to parents about how they can effectively correct their children while still empowering and connecting with them.
Parenting Strategies That ...
Why am I not a more joyful parent? Why aren’t my kids turning out as I expected? Why do I always feel as if I’m not doing enough for my children?
Is Parenting Supposed to Be This Difficult?
As a ...
Who is this child?
I heard once that personhood can be defined in three parts: (1) Identity, (2)Acceptance, (3) Approval. This intrigued me, as I have become increasingly convinced that ...
