Teens

Various resources on parenting older adoptees:
www.creatingafamily.org/adoption-resources/older-child-adoption.html

Topics include:
◦Parenting Easily Frustrated Inflexible Kids with Challenging Behavior
◦Sexual Development in Adopted Children
◦Helping Your Adopted Child Heal from Past Trauma and Loss
◦Preparing Children for the Adoption of a Sibling & Integrating Adopted and Biological Kids Post-Adoption (Listen Now)
◦Talking with Your Kids about the Hard Issues with Adoption (Rape, Drugs, Prison, Corruption, Etc.) (Listen Now)
◦Creating Attachment with Adopted Kids through Lifebooks (Listen Now)
◦Parenting the Adopted Adolescent
◦How Children Process Adoption at Different Ages
◦The Connected Child: Bring hope and healing to your adoptive family

Interesting article about BP's contacting adoptees by Facebook - Posted by Pluto on another thread

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/jun/19/facebook-adoption-tracing-birth-mother

www.nationaltrustjobs.org.uk/join-us/training-schemes

Some ideas of training for future careers for our teens?

Letter to Son about accessing porn

www.mamamia.com.au/parenting/talking-to-kids-about-porn/#Ypu6jtqT...

Thanks for this JMK. Jealous Dog just entering the teen phase. Wish there were courses/support groups for adopted children on social media and issues around contact the birth family. I feel like Rundad and I already understand the issues and all the things we can do to help our kids understand the risks and the Apps we can use to set up parental controls and the ways of managing multiples browsers - it's not us that needs the support and education, I think we are pretty street wise. Our children can be so naive and happy chirpy BF Facebook profiles and lives so easily believed however much we try to set the scene and protect them - professional support for them in a proactive way would be so good. Don't suppose anyone knows of anything???

"Blame my Brain" a book about teenage brain development. Intended for the kids themselves as well as parents