Posts by Dr. Karyn Purvis
By: Amy Monroe, Dr. Karyn Purvis
Sunday, April 7, 2013
When parents make mistakes it can actually be healthy for both them and their children, so long as parents are quick to repair the ruptured connection. This is certainly good news, given that all parents are prone to their fair share of mistakes.
So here’s a challenge for all parents — let’s practice making mistakes (not intentionally, of course) and repairing them so that we and our children can grow and learn, and our connection can be strengthened. Are you up for it?
Tags: Attachment, Being Fully Present, Repairing Connection, Talking with Childen, Teaching Life Values
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By: Dr. Karyn Purvis, Michael Monroe
Friday, March 8, 2013
This video collection contains ten short video interview sessions with Dr. Karyn Purvis and Michael Monroe, offering helpful insights and practical advice in response to many of the the questions that are commonly asked by adoptive and foster parents.
Watch the first video in this series – How Do I Handle Manipulation & Control – or click here to watch all ten videos.
Tags: 10 Common Questions Series, Attachment, Balance of Nurture & Structure, Behavioral Challenges, Brain Development, Connecting While Correcting, Discipline, Finding Help, Investment Model of Parenting, Talking with Childen
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By: Dr. Karyn Purvis, Michael Monroe
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Adoptive and foster parents often need to look to professionals to help them and their child. But how do parents know which professionals to turn to?
Watch as Dr. Karyn Purvis and Michael Monroe offer practical insight about how parents should view the role of professionals and which criterion they should use in selecting the right professional to come alongside them in order to help bring about healing for their child.
Tags: 10 Common Questions Series, Behavioral Challenges, Finding Help, Food & Nutrition, Older Children, Sensory Processing
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By: Dr. Karyn Purvis
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Watch as Dr. Karyn Purvis answers the challenging question that many adoptive parents ask: is it adoption related or just typical child behavior? In this brief video she offers helpful insights and encourages parents to always be mindful of their child’s history.
Tags: 10 Common Questions Series, Behavioral Challenges, Compassion, Connecting While Correcting, Investment Model of Parenting
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By: Dr. Karyn Purvis
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Parents often struggle to blend the parenting approach they used before they adopted with the trust-based parenting approach they are now using to meet the unique needs of a child from a hard place.
Watch as Dr. Karyn Purvis explains how parents can effectively meet the needs of all of their children — biological, adopted, foster — by using a parenting approach that focuses on building trust. In addition, Dr. Purvis offers valuable insight to help parents explain changes in their parenting approach to their older biological child, and encourages parents to give these children a voice as the family welcomes new children through adoption and embraces their needs.
Tags: 10 Common Questions Series, Adoption Preparation, Giving Voice, Investment Model of Parenting, Motivations and Expectations, Older Children, Talking with Childen
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By: Dr. Karyn Purvis
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Parents often ask whether trust-based parenting — the type of parenting that Dr. Karyn Purvis teaches — will work for their child.
Watch as Dr. Purvis answers this question, and explains why each of our children — regardless of their age or stage of development — need the same things from their parents.
Tags: 10 Common Questions Series, Attachment, Balance of Nurture & Structure, Investment Model of Parenting
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By: Dr. Karyn Purvis
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
As a result of their early life experiences, children from hard places often miss out on some of the key development that is essential in helping them learn to trust and grow relationally. As a result of their unique histories and needs, these children need parents that are willing to utilize the unique approach of trust-based parenting to help them heal and grow.
Watch as Dr. Karyn Purvis encourages adoptive and foster parents to embrace trust-based parenting as the “new normal” that God has called them to as an essential part of the journey.
Tags: 10 Common Questions Series, Adoption Preparation, Balance of Nurture & Structure, Count the Cost, Investment Model of Parenting, Motivations and Expectations
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By: Dr. Karyn Purvis, Michael Monroe
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Knowing how best to handle lying is often a significant challenge for adoptive and foster parents.
Watch as Dr. Karyn Purvis and Michael Monroe offer insights to help parents effectively respond to lying while remaining connected with their child.
Tags: 10 Common Questions Series, Balance of Nurture & Structure, Behavioral Challenges, Discipline
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By: Dr. Karyn Purvis, Michael Monroe
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Watch as Dr. Karyn Purvis and Michael Monroe talk about the importance of meeting your child’s needs with an appropriate balance of nurture and structure in order to prepare them for success later in life.
Tags: 10 Common Questions Series, Balance of Nurture & Structure, Behavioral Challenges, Compassion, Connecting While Correcting, Discipline, Especially for Dads, Giving Voice, Older Children, Teaching Life Values
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By: Amy Monroe, Dr. Karyn Purvis, Michael Monroe
Thursday, September 13, 2012
What if becoming the parent God has called you to be to your child from a hard place means that you need to un-learn as much or more than you need to learn? What if many of the popular approaches to parenting and discipline, many of which are regarded as “biblical,” actually aren’t best for your child given his background and history and what he needs to heal and grow? What if the parenting program you previously used, even with great success, when raising and training your other children needs to be significantly altered or even discarded for the child you adopted? What if the parenting techniques that most of your friends are using or that you grew up with are likely to be ineffective in achieving long-lasting change for the child you now love and desire to connect with?
I believe that parents need to seriously consider these and many similar questions as they set the course for how to best relate to and parent children from hard places.
Tags: Balance of Nurture & Structure, Behavioral Challenges, Connecting While Correcting, Created To Connect Study Guide, Discipline
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