Jean MacLeod's
adoption toolbox
tweens & teens

Parenting Our Tweens & Teens
Laying groundwork NOW to assist your current /
future teenager makes good parenting sense. None
of us can make the teen years easy for our adopted
children, but we do have the power to set an
emotional framework and to put a family philosophy
in place. Guided by our ‘core issue’ adoption
knowledge, we can empower our tweens and teens,
and still provide them with background support
during adolescence -- years when our
adopted children may need our
'invisible toolbox parenting' more than ever.

    Teach Your Tween / Teen to
    Recognize and Use
    the Seven Core Issues
    in Adoption:

    Loss
    Rejection
    Guilt / Shame
    Grief
    Identity
    Intimacy
    Mastery / Control

    (Silverstein & Kaplan, 1982)
For Parents:

PARENTS: JOIN the
Adoption Parenting TWEENS listserv
for tweenie parent support!
For Tweens & Teens:
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