Are you frustrated & feeling defeated because your adopted daughter won’t let you teach her anything?
Or your son always insists he already knows whatever you’re about to tell him?
Today’s topic is:
Fostering a positive learning environment for adoptive moms with severely attachment-challenged children or teens.
As moms we want to teach, train & influence our child/children for good. We know that attachment challenges affect learning and behavior in children and teens.
This can create a looming gap between all we’d otherwise be able to teach our children and what they’ll actually be receptive to.
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In this introductory episode of my new series about what I’m describing as “planting seeds” in our adoptive families, I want to go over some of the obstacles you may face as an adoptive mom: obstacles to planting the good seeds, seeds of love, seeds of learning, and seeds of growth. You’ve probably seen and heard me say over and over again to keep learning, keep growing, and keep loving” and that’s as much an encouragement I want to give to you as it is a reminder and encouragement to myself. I wanted to dedicate this series of episodes to these three topics.
So as we get into this series, I decided to first talk about the seven obstacles to planting good seeds in this introductory episode.
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“BECAUSE I CANNN…!!”
I vividly remember those words coming from my teenage daughter as I questioned her about her motivation for something she had done.
Not the words of someone who is open to a reflective dialog or reasoned conversation.
And that was that.
