Transforming Parenting: Mastering the ADHD ChallengeAs a parent, guiding a child with ADHD through their daily life can be a daunting task. You strive to understand, support, and empower your child, yet sometimes, despite your best efforts, the path seems filled with obstacles.But it doesn’t have to be a relentless struggle.Recognize any of these challenges?Your child's inattention makes it difficult for them to focus on tasks or follow instructions.You notice their hyperactivity impacts their ability to stay still or participate calmly in activities.Their impulsivity leads to hasty actions without considering consequences.You're grappling with creating an ADHD-friendly environment that suits their unique sensory needs.Establishing effective routines feels like an uphill battle, disrupting family harmony.Sure, you can try traditional parenting methods, but these often fall short with ADHD.Many parents fail to realize that children with ADHD require a different approach — one that understands their unique needs and harnesses their strengths. This guide, ‘How to Parent Children with ADHD', is your roadmap to that approach.It's not about changing your child; it's about empowering them. Learn how to create a nurturing environment that helps your child thrive, not just cope. This book offers a comprehensive, compassionate guide filled with 48 practical techniques and strategies, drawing from extensive research and real-life experiences.Highlights from the book:48 Tailored Strategies: From managing inattention to enhancing emotional regulation, discover a plethora of methods to support your child's unique needs.Behavior Management Mastery: Gain insights into addressing the core challenges of ADHD - inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity.Resilience Development: Learn techniques to build resilience, fostering confidence and problem-solving abilities in your child.ADHD-Friendly Spaces: Tips on creating environments that cater to the sensory needs of a child with ADHD, promoting calmness and focus.Empowering Routines: Strategies for establishing routines that bring structure and predictability, crucial for children with ADHD.Positive Reinforcement Tactics: Understand the power of positive reinforcement in encouraging desirable behaviors and strengthening the parent-child bond.Effective Communication Skills: Master the art of communicating with your child, fostering understanding and empathy.Parent-Teacher Collaboration: Navigate the education system with confidence, understanding how to collaborate effectively with your child's educators.Parental Self-Care: Essential advice for maintaining your well-being, ensuring you can be the best support for your child.Real-life Examples: Concrete scenarios and solutions, providing clarity and practical guidance.And much more!Whether you are new to parenting a child with ADHD or seeking new strategies, ‘How to Parent Children with ADHD' equips you with the knowledge and tools for a rewarding journey.Transform your parenting experience and witness the positive impact on your family dynamics.Ready to embrace this empowering journey? Order your copy today! Read more

Kids who have disabilities, are neurodivergent, or have experienced trauma may have behaviors that are especially challenging and confusing.But as we better understand their unique needs, we can create safe spaces for all to contribute and belong.Churches, parents, and educators want to make things better, not worse for kids. When frustration sets in, however, even well-meaning adults reinforce harmful patterns and the misguided belief that the behavior is bad and therefore the kid is too. It's easy to react with anger or try to "fix" behaviors that challenge the expectations, but there is another option.In Boundless Hope, Kim Botto draws on more than thirty years of professional and volunteer experience, as well as her personal experience as an adoptive mom and an advocate for kids and teens with disabilities, to provide tools for responding positively to kids and teens with difficult behaviors. It all starts with a simple change in perspective: consciously approaching disruptive behaviors with curiosity and understanding, rather than judgment. Simple, yes—but as Botto's anecdotes illustrate, this shift can make an enormous difference in a child's life, with positive effects that may reverberate for generations to come.KIM BOTTO has worked with children and teens for over three decades through churches, schools, nonprofit organizations, and adoption and foster care initiatives. She has a Masters in Family Ministry and is a Trauma Free World Affiliate Trainer, a TBRI Practitioner®, and a frequent speaker on topics related to trauma, disability, and neurodivergence. She and her husband, Mark, live in the greater Cincinnati area, where she particularly loves spending time with her kids and eleven—count 'em, eleven!—grandchildren. Read more

The beloved author of Bridge to Terabithia and other classics of children’s literature reveals the fascinating personal stories that have shaped her creative life.For nearly fifty years, Katherine Paterson’s stories have captured readers young and old. From Bridge to Terabithia’s Leslie Burke to the unforgettable Gilly Hopkins to countless others, her characters are woven into the memories of several generations. Paterson’s writing has always explored the rich emotional landscape of childhood, for she has never forgotten how she felt as a child herself.The writer she became grew from her own fascinating life, told here in a collection of stories that reach from earlier generations of her family to the present day. Born in China to Presbyterian missionary parents from the American South, her young adulthood led her to Japan and then back to the East Coast, where she began to raise her family and put stories on paper. Each of these experiences influenced the books that were to come. Through Paterson’s memories, we learn the origins of her characters and storylines and share in her unexpected literary acclaim. We see the intimate moments of family, creativity, and faith that come together for a life well lived.With snapshots from her family albums and introductory remarks from fellow writers Kate DiCamillo and Nancy Price Graff, this is more than a behind-the-scenes look at favorite children’s books. It’s the story of a life infused with humor, joy, and gratitude; inspiring new stories embraced by readers everywhere. Read more

"A beautiful, courageous book.”Gene Luen Yang, author of American Born ChineseMonstrous is poignant young adult graphic memoir about a Korean-American girl who uses fandom and art-making to overcome racist bullying. Perfect for fans of Almost American Girl!Sarah has always struggled to fit in. Born in South Korea and adopted at birth by a white couple, she grows up in a rural community with few Asian neighbors. People whisper in the supermarket. Classmates bully her. She has trouble containing her anger in these moments―but through it all, she has her art. She's always been a compulsive drawer, and when she discovers anime, her hobby becomes an obsession.Though drawing and cosplay offer her an escape, she still struggles to connect with others. And in high school, the bullies are louder and meaner. Sarah's bubbling rage is threatening to burst. Read more

When she’s called back home, will a trial unravel everything she’s worked so hard to build?Olivia Jackson is ready for a fresh start. Carrying guilt over not turning in her ex for assault, the half-Black nineteen-year-old still struggles to understand where she fits in. But when her class is assigned a sociology project, she’s forced to confront her past… and the biggest identity crisis of her life.Embarking on a quest to uncover the truth about her roots, Olivia discovers the facts are more complicated than she thought. And when she’s pressured to return home to appear as a key witness, she faces a collision of history that could destroy her carefully constructed sense of self.Will revisiting the wreckage she left behind make her whole… or turn into a world of pain?In this deeply relevant narrative, author Meggan Larson draws back the curtain on the often overlooked emotional suffering of transracial adoptees and those whose trust is violently betrayed. Deftly woven with wit and empathy, readers will love this thought-provoking account of discovery, enlightenment, and triumph.Reclaimed is the moving third book in the Adopted YA coming-of-age trilogy. If you like protagonists who refuse to give up, walking in another’s shoes, and finding strength through adversity, then you’ll be captivated by Meggan Larson’s bittersweet story.Buy Reclaimed today to take a journey of healing! Read more

Candid, unfiltered stories about how it feels to be a teen adopteeThe teen years are full of uncomfortable self-discovery for everyone. But adopted teens grapple with issues that make the coming of age journey immensely more difficult. Many don't have words for what they're feeling, sensing, or believing about themselves. They often don't have anyone like them to help them work through their struggles. Forced to cope on their own, they end up feeling isolated.Adoption advocate and adoptive mom Susan TeBos has watched her own children go through these struggles. Often she wished for a voice that would resonate with adopted teens--her own and others--and authentically meet them where they are.She found not one voice, but many: over thirty adopted teens and young adults. We've Been There gathers their stories, giving readers a front row seat to people with similar stories and feelings.This book is an unprecedented glimpse into the unfiltered feelings, thoughts, experiences, and unanswered questions that well up in the heart of every person with adoption in their story. From people who have been there as adopted kids, this book not only invites adopted teens to bring their concerns into the open, but also helps them process how they feel and offers them hope on the other side. In these pages, teen adoptees will understand themselves in a whole new way and find reassurance and a sense of belonging as part of a global adopted community. Read more

She’s uncovered one piece of the truth and unlocked a million more doubts. Will this loyal teen ever really belong?Olivia Jackson has never felt more out of place. Despite loving parents and her closer-than-ever best friend, the seventeen-year-old adoptee is convinced she won’t feel complete until she’s found her biological family. And her confused desperation builds when she discovers there’s money trouble at home, she’s struggling on the new track team, and her boyfriend has been lying to her face.Unable to meet everyone’s expectations, Olivia decides it’s time to give up and triggers a huge fight with her beau. But when she quietly resumes looking for her dad, the restless girl runs into the dead-end frustration of her manipulative birth-mom.Has she gotten trapped in a cycle of terrible mistakes or taken a step toward her biggest dreams?In a deep and thought-provoking novel, Meggan Larson lays bare the struggles of the contemporary adopted teenager. With keen insight and gentle prose, Larson renders a sensitive portrait of anguish, confusion, and desperation sure to ring true with any reader of young adult fiction, particularly those seeking their birth parents.Fractured is the compelling second book in the Adopted YA coming-of-age trilogy. If you like characters bursting with personality, page-turning tension, and fresh perspectives on life, then you’ll adore Meggan Larson’s heart-wrenching tale.Buy Fractured to race toward belonging today! Read more

Award-winning book that recently earned acclaim from the prestigious Next Generation Indie Book Awards!"How can young adoptees navigate the constantly changing seas that adoptees face?  This book overflows with practical suggestions. It provides a way to spark important conversations with adoptees, extended families or friends. It validates and renders compassionate witness to the adoptee experience. Being a teenager is tough. When you factor in the complexities and challenges of being adopted, it is exponentially harder. The graphic-style book, We're Adopted. So What?features five teen girls who share a huge thing in common: each of them was adopted. This shared experience draws them together yet the distinctions between their experiences are as unique as their personalities. Feisty, fun and outspoken, the girls tackle some tough topics.They share their thoughts and feelings being adopted, how adoption shapes their world and relationships, creates challenges, burdens them with curiosity, frustration, anger, and grief, and shows how they strive to blend together their biological and their adoptive worlds. Open adoption has become the norm for most contemporary domestic adoptions yet questions and complications remain for adoptees and their families:How can all these people cooperate to create healthy, supportive relationships that best support adoptees? How does a young adoptee balance their dual loyalties, connections, and heritages?How do they weave the spectrum of their feelings, challenges, and experiences into a cohesive identity?We now recognize that connection to and respect for an adopted child's biological roots is integral to an adoptee's ability to successfully unify their dual heritage. Still, the concept of openness remains shrouded in apprehension, confusion, and curiosity. How is it possible for a child to have two sets of parents involved in their lives? Against this backdrop of openness, how do teens in international or "traditional closed" adoptions, feel about and deal with their lack of connection with birth families? Read more

PASS BACK AND FORTH JOURNALYour Tool for Lasting Connections with Your ChildBuilding a meaningful relationship with your child has never been so easy and fun! Whether you’re a parent, grandparent, aunt, or guardian, this Pass Back and Forth Journal is the perfect interactive diary to create lasting bonds and foster open communication with the child in your life.Why choose this Pass Back and Forth Journal?✓ Create Continuous Dialogue: This interactive journal allows you and your child to take turns writing, drawing, and responding to reflective prompts. Each person has the time to respond thoughtfully, creating an ongoing conversation that enriches the emotional connection and stimulates communication.✓ Stimulate Meaningful Conversations: With over 100 prompts, the Pass Back and Forth Journal offers a variety of topics, ranging from light-hearted to deeper subjects. The prompts are designed to open up dialogue on sensitive themes, addressing them in a fun and accessible way.✓ Flexibility and Freedom: There are no rigid rules for using the journal, making it perfect for any occasion. Whether it’s a quiet afternoon at home or a trip, this Pass Back and Forth Journal adapts to your routine and lets you choose the topics that interest you most, creating unique and special moments.✓ A Treasure of Memories: The Pass Back and Forth Journal becomes a cherished keepsake, full of shared thoughts, drawings, and reflections. Over time, it will be a pleasure to flip through the pages, reliving the conversations and preserving the most meaningful memories of your relationship with your child.The Perfect Gift for Any OccasionThis Pass Back and Forth Journal is the ideal gift for any occasion. Whether you want to show how much you care about your child or are looking for a special way to create lasting memories, this journal is a unique opportunity to deepen your bond and make every moment special.Start creating priceless memories today with "Simply Between Us Kid".The ideal tool for meaningful conversations and lasting connections with your child. Read more

Anna O’Dell doesn’t panic when her mother goes missing. It’s happened before, many times, and fifteen year old Anna has become quite adept at caring for her five year old sister and infant brother. When Mama doesn’t return, though, Anna fears that the authorities will put the children, who are young, white, and adorable, into foster care, but aren’t likely to find a home that will also want her, their teenage bi-racial sister. Determined to keep her little family together at all costs, Anna sets off on an odyssey that will eventually take her back to her roots and to the discovery of the dark secrets that shaped her troubled mother’s life. Read more

The 2nd Novel by #1 Young Adult Bestseller Vicky BallMaddie has spent a lifetime struggling alone with her alcoholic mother. Her unpredictable behaviour and unreliability makes Maddie wish she had someone who actually cared about her. Tired of being the responsible one and the person who keeps it all together, Maddie longs for a life she’ll never have. Her mother’s constant thoughtless actions lead to difficulties on more than one occasion and the unwelcome presence of her Mum’s boyfriend, Nick, only adds more stress to her life. The last thing she needs is a man in the house who doesn’t know how to behave. But that all changes when Maddie discovers the real reason why her Mum drinks.Thrown into a confusing world of secrets and family that she’s never met, Maddie discovers that there is more to life than her world.Could a girl she has never met have the answers?As she figures out how she fits into it all, she embarks on a pursuitof truth. Through the uncovering of more shocking realities, Maddie questions her true identity. Can she ever move past all the lies and find the truth?More importantly, will she ever find someone who will love her like a real family should? Read more

A vivid, heartfelt tale of a teenager's poetic quest to discover her place within her adoptive family and within the wider world.Being adopted is a fact of life in the McLane household: fourteen-year-old Lizzie, as well as her older brother and sister were adopted as infants. But dry facts rarely encompass feelings, and what it feels like to be adopted is something Lizzie never dares openly discuss with her loving parents—let alone with outsiders. More and more Lizzie yearns to confide in others, especially her boyfriend, Peter. But something stops her. Will Peter think she is "less" because her birthmother gave her away? Would telling be disloyal to her adoptive parents?Told entirely through the poems Lizzie writes for herself, this intimate, moving story gives voice to the thoughts Lizzie cannot utter aloud. Lizzie transforms relationships and events in her daily life—family dinners, the school dance, hanging out with friends—into blues poems, list poems, sonnets, sestinas, and free verse that delve into her secret wishes and her fears. Often Lizzie feels like two people: the person everyone knows, and the one known to precious few. But when a tragic accident occurs, Lizzie finds the courage to say who she truly is and to set off on a new path of self-discovery and truth.In an Afterword the author discusses her own experience as an adopted child and how writing can help make sense of one's life. Also included are a Guide to Poetic Forms and an Appendix of Poems (poems referred to in the novel, by Lucille Clifton, Hayden Carruth, Anne Sexton, Donald Hall, and others). Read more

Written for teens who were adopted, this compassionate workbook will help give you the strength, resilience, and confidence you need to thrive—now and on into adulthood.If you’re like many other adopted teens, you may wonder about your birth family. You may question why you were given up. And you may even grapple with feelings of isolation, abandonment, and broken trust. These feelings are valid and deserve to be addressed. This workbook is designed to help you open the door to questioning, explore painful feelings, and develop the skills needed to be a happy and grounded adult.The Adopted Teen Workbook teaches powerful self-resiliency, mindfulness, and somatic skills to help you explore your unique identity as an adopted teen. You’ll find tools to manage loss and grief, and activities that include checklists, contemplations, skill-building, and journaling to help you chronicle present, past, and future relationships with both your adoptive and birth parents.This workbook begins with your first recognition of having been adopted and the feelings that come with that. You will then explore memories of the past and begin work on understanding emotions of anger, shame, and loss. Finally, you’ll learn ways to heal these wounds, learn to trust, and fully connect with both yourself and others. Read more

A hurting child. An unwelcoming world. Where can she find love?With her oversized hoodie and unwashed body, Destiny tries her best to keep everyone at bay. When her teacher discovers her begging for food, the foster care system takes over. But Destiny finds out quickly that money is more important than a child’s life.A new foster family shows her what true love is. Destiny takes a chance and begins to let her guard down. But just when she feels like she’s found her forever home, tragedy strikes.Is Destiny going to become a tragic statistic, or will she find a family that accepts her as she is?Free as a Bird is a story about redemption, love, and the healing power of animals. Buy Free as a Bird today and stay up way too late finishing it tonight. Read more

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All adopted teens have questions-questions about their adoptive family, about their birth parents, and about how adoption has affected and will continue to affect their lives. But not every adopted teen knows how to approach these questions or how to handle the intense emotions and high stress often associated with them.This guide has answers. Based on true stories, extensive research, and Danea Gorbett's own in addition to her background in psychology and education, Adopted Teens Only delivers:Suggestions for bringing up sensitive topics with all types of adoptive parentsInsight on what your adoptive parents might be going throughTrue stories of birth mothersPractical information on whether and how to search for birth parentsSeasoned advice on what to expect and how to prepare for reuniting with a birth parent.Gorbett offers confirmation that what you feel, think, wonder, and worry about as an adopted teen is normal and important, and she helps you acknowledge and celebrate the unique gifts and many advantages of growing up adopted.Comforting, empowering, and ultimately practical, Adopted Teens Only is the indispensable survival guide for adopted adolescents and anyone who loves them. Read more

A deeply personal and inspiring memoir recounting one woman's struggles--beginning with her birth in prison--to find self-acceptance   Even at twelve years old Deborah Jiang Stein, the adopted daughter of a progressive Jewish couple in Seattle, felt like an outsider. Her multiracial features set her apart from her well-intentioned white parents, who evaded questions about her past. But when Deborah discovered a letter revealing the truth--that she was born in prison to a heroin-addicted mother and spent the first year of her life there--she spiraled into emotional lockdown. For years she turned to drugs, violence, and crime as a way to cope with her grief. Ultimately, Deborah overcame the stigma, shame, and secrecy of her birth and found peace by helping others--proving that redemption and acceptance is possible, even from the darkest corners Read more

"We don't have adoption issues; we have an issue with adoption." The author offers a rare perspective based on the natural law of identity and equal rights –even for adopted people. If you believe adopted people should have the same rights as all other humans, you will find value in this rare book advocating for equality. The author provides an Eastern and Metaphysical view that is aligned with all international human rights treaties and rooted in the Taoist way of nature, which appreciates who we are—as we are. Nope, we're not sinful creatures. We're sacred souls.If you are sick and tired of adoptive parents trying to diagnose and heal you or expect you to be more grateful and positive, you need this book. If you're annoyed by the diagnosis given by adoption professionals and experts who claim you're “unable to bond," you will love this book. And if you are against fallible man-made adoption laws, this book was written to support your inherent, God-given, and natural rights to your real and biological family. Read this book and stand in solidarity with fellow transracial, intercountry, and even domestic adopted people for a point of view rooted in the laws of nature.Overseas adoption is exploitation because the commodification of children violates the natural, inherent, civil, constitutional, universal, and God-given rights of the child, which are inborn and innate and also recognized and enshrined in several state and international conventions and declarations such as at the United Nations, in the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence. All humans on earth--except for adopted people--have access to the truth of their biology and ancestry. In contrast, due to continuously reformed and refined draconian adoption laws spearheaded by evangelical agencies, adopted people are deprived of such equality. No matter how the multi-billion dollar industry is refined and reformed, adoption laws are rooted in the commodification of children—and as a consequence, deprive individuals of what is innately theirs.Master Adoption: Claim Your Authentic Power offers adopted people a rare perspective steeped in solidarity rooted in the truth of who we are. Read more

Have you ever wondered about the stories that lie within your DNA? Perhaps you've been eager to learn more about your family history, but don't know where to start. Unlocking Your Family's Secrets with DNA: A Beginner's Guide is here to help. With this book, you'll learn everything you need to know about interpreting and understanding your DNA test results.Discover how DNA testing can help you trace your ancestry, pinpoint your origins, and uncover long-lost relatives. Whether you're just getting started or have already taken a DNA test, this book is packed with useful information that will help you get the most out of your results.What can you expect from reading Unlocking Your Family's Secrets with DNA: A Beginner's Guide? Take a look at the benefits and features:Results:- Gain a deeper understanding of your family's genealogy- Identify unknown relatives and lost family members- Build a comprehensive family tree based on DNA evidenceBenefits:- Learn how to select a DNA test that's right for you- Understand genetic inheritance and how it impacts your DNA- Navigate complex DNA results and make sense of the dataFeatured:- Written in easy-to-understand language for beginners- Includes case studies and practical examples- Provides step-by-step guidance for interpreting resultsGrab a copy today and start unlocking the secrets of your family's DNA!Discover Genealogy Secrets with Genetic Testing: Easy DNA Analysis for Beginners. Read more