Family
Foster & Adoption
Books, networks, and a community that gets it.
Foster and adoptive parenting is its own world. The grief, the joy, the behaviors, the systems — most people who haven't lived it don't fully understand. These are the books and resources that have helped families in our community.
Recommended Reading
- Maybe Days
- Wounded Children, Healing Homes
- Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors
- Raising Mentally Strong Kids
- The Body Keeps the Score
- Parenting from the Inside Out
- The Whole Life Adoption Book
- Beyond Consequences, Logic and Control
- The Connected Child
- Trauma — The Invisible Epidemic
- What Happened to You?
- Raising Good Humans
- Setting Boundaries That Stick
- The Peaceful Parenting (R)evolution
- No-Drama Discipline
- Keep the Doors Open
- The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog
- Touch
- Reframing Foster Care
- What Young Children Need You to Know
- The Whole-Brain Child
- It Didn’t Start with You
- The Highly Sensitive
- Foster the Family
See Also
- Trauma Informed ResourcesTBRI, RAD, FASD, and trauma-sensitive schools
- Autism & Sensory IntegrationFor children with sensory or developmental needs
- Community ResourcesLocal Grayson County non-profits
Want the full WOW Ministries guide on foster and adoption?
It includes:
- A field-tested book stack with the order to read them in, by season (pre-placement → bumpy first year → long haul)
- Advocacy contacts, foster-village networks, and where to actually find respite that helps
- Hard-won mindset shifts for the days when behaviors and the system both cost more than you have
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