How to Have Peace When Your Kids are in Chaos: For Adoptive/Foster Parents

By Kathleen Guire

How to Have Peace When Your Kids Are in Chaos is a unique handbook written from the perspective of an adoptive parent. Equal parts self-examination, science, tips, and personal stories, How to Have Peace offers the steps that will guide you toward the peace you need in your home.

Instead of starting with the science and trying to change your kids' behaviors, this book challenges you to examine your beliefs, confront the lies about adoption/foster care, and do some reframing. How to Have Peace leads you through the hard work of making sense of and peace with your past. Then, you learn and apply the science.

Using the tools in this book, you can start finding some peace in your home. That doesn't mean that the chaos will totally disappear. It means that you will have peace in the midst of it. You will understand the why behind your child's behavior. You will be able to meet the child where they are. Instead of your past and his past being in chaotic competition, you will have greater empathy plus the proper tools to achieve and maintain inner peace.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1733830316
• ISBN13: 9781733830317
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Whole House
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"