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4.7 | Hope Beyond Repair: Parenting Foster and Adoptive Children Without the Pressure to Fix (with Michael DeRuyter)
Hope Beyond Repair:
Parenting Foster and Adoptive Children Without the Pressure to Fix
A conversation with a family systems leadership coach, pastor, and foster and adoptive parent Michael DeRuyter about parenting children who have joined our families through fostering and adoption—and why these lessons matter for every parent.
Drawing on both professional expertise and lived experience, we discuss the powerful pull to "repair" our children through doing more—more services, more interventions, more effort—and why this anxious over-functioning can sometimes undermine the very relationships…
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