What To Expect From Your Adopted Tween

Perhaps you’re not parenting a tweenie yet, but you’re considering what it might be like to parent your child as he or she moves closer to and through adolescence. What To Expect From Your Adopted Tween is a terrific tool and resource—providing examples that will resonate with you and from which you can draw ideas to support and parent your child as this stage nears. The internationally known parent guide, What To Expect From Your Adopted Tween, helps parents assist their children in understanding, examining and resolving adoption-related issues as they happen, and empowers their children to feel self-confident. Whether parents are now in the “trenches” of parenting a tween who has been adopted, on the cusp of doing so, or will be down the road, this guide will be of great benefit to them.

Perhaps you’re not parenting a tweenie yet, but you’re considering what it might be like to parent your child as he or she moves closer to and through adolescence. What To Expect From Your Adopted Tween is a terrific tool and resource—providing examples that will resonate with you and from which you can draw ideas to support and parent your child as this stage nears. The internationally known parent guide, What To Expect From Your Adopted Tween, helps parents assist their children in understanding, examining and resolving adoption-related issues as they happen, and empowers their children to feel self-confident. Whether parents are now in the “trenches” of parenting a tween who has been adopted, on the cusp of doing so, or will be down the road, this guide will be of great benefit to them. What To Expect From Your Adopted Tween describes an intentional parenting approach that will benefit any child, and clearly highlights the issues to which all adoptive parents must be attuned. Written from both a professional perspective as well as from intense personal experiences, What To Expect From Your Adopted Tween provides excellent information and exercises in clear, concise and realistic language. The guide is an excellent read for any parent preparing to adopt. What To Expect From Your Adopted Tween is a wonderful tool and resource for adoptive parent support groups as well as professionals working with foster and adoptive families.

Judy M. Miller, MA, CGE is parent educator and coach focusing on adoption. An adoptive parent herself, she fully appreciates the importance of being informed and proactive about issues inherent to adoption. She believes information unlocks empathy and understanding—necessary tools in any adoptive parent’s toolbox. Judy is the author of the internationally known parent guide, What To Expect From Your Adopted Tween, and a workbook for adopted adults, Writing to Heal Adoption Grief: Moving Forward & Making Connections. She is the creator of the popular class, Parenting Tweens, Tweens & Beyond. Her expertise is frequently quoted in publications like TODAY.com, Parenting, and The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption. Judy appears as a guest on radio programs like Adoption Perspectives and Creating a Family. She gives presentations and facilitates workshops at conferences like North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC) and American Adoption Conference (AAC). Judy provides support and coaching to adoptive parents. She teaches classes, lectures and facilitates workshops for adoptive parents and adopted persons, advocating for adoptees of all ages. Judy reaches out to everyone in the extended adoption constellation and strives to promote open minds, hearts, and communication. Birth parents, adoptive parents, and adoptees appreciate Judy’s emotional intelligence and compassion. Adoption professionals commend Judy for her commitment to sharing her knowledge and rely on her as a resource in counseling clients. Wish to know more? Contact Judy and find helpful adoption resources at www.JudyMMiller.com.