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Your Hurt Child Can Heal and Grow. When a child is adopted, he can arrive with hurts from the past-pain that stunts his emotional growth, and your family’s life, too. At some point your parenting dreams can shatter, and raising a hurt child becomes more like a burden than a blessing. But don’t give up. With time, patience, informed parenting, and appropriate therapy, your adopted child can heal, grow, and develop beyond what seems possible now. From insights gathered through years of working with adopted kids who have experienced early trauma, Gregory C. Keck and Regina M. Kupecky explain how to manage a hurting child with loving wisdom and resolve, and how to preserve your stability while untangling their thorny hearts. “We hope that what we share will give you strength, courage, and commitment,” write the authors. “We hope you will tap into your own resources and creativity to become the parent you’ve always wanted to be.” If you’ve adopted a child, whatever the circumstances, you’ll find hope and healing on these pages––for you, your family, and especially your adopted child.
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Now time in the car can be time well spent. This audio devotional contains 20 devotions, one for each day of the work week, featuring the popular Message translation. Segments include a reading, meditation, response, and contemplation.
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The second in a series of audio devotionals for women taken from The Message. Each of the 20 entries contains a scriptural reading, meditative, responsive, and contemplative segments.
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Now a rewarding devotional experience is ready when you are. The Drive-Time Message for Women 2 contains twenty inspired audio devotionals to carry you through the day. Each five- to seven-minute selection features verses from The Message, a contemplative devotion, and a time for prayer and reflection. Consider it a coffee break for the soul.
Refresh your spirit. Encourage your heart. And immerse yourself in his presence.
Title Verse
I’m not who I was Galatians 5:1
Safe Distance Matthew 26:57-58
Fire hose John 7:37-39
Smoke screen Matthew 5:35-36
Where were you? Job 38:5
Hot Donuts Now! Lamentations 3:22-24
Quit Your Worship Charades Isaiah 1:15
Get me out of here Psalm 140:1
Original Galatians 5:26
Miss the forest for the trees John 5:39
Your hand Proverbs 3:27
Cheap figurines Romans 1:22-23
Hiding place or boulder? Isaiah 8:14
Cheap candy Proverbs 18:8
I'm convinced Romans 8:39
Don't fret Philippians 48:6,7
Listen Proverbs 3:6
Hot Potato Matthew 11:30
Road trip Luke 1:39-40
Be content 1 Peter 5:6-7
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Gregory C. Keck and Regina M. Kupecky explain how to parent a hurting child with loving wisdom, resolve, and success.
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When a child is adopted, he or she can arrive with hurts from past pain. With time, patience, informed parenting, and appropriate therapy, your adopted child can heal, grow, and develop beyond what seems possible now.
Gregory C. Keck and Regina M. Kupecky explain how to manage a hurting child with loving wisdom and resolve and how to preserve your stability while untangling their thorny hearts.
• Indexed for easy reference.
• Also available: Adopting the Hurt Child
About the Author
noneGregory C. Keck PhD founded the Attachment and Bonding Center of Ohio which specializes in treating children and adolescents who have experienced trauma and developmental interruptions. Dr. Keck has extensive experience in the fields of attachment adoption and adolescence. He has taught at both undergraduate and graduate levels at a number of universities and has presented to parent and professional groups both nationally and internationally.
As an adoptive parent of two sons who were adopted during adolescence Dr. Keck combines clinical expertise and personal experience to share with his readers. He is the coauthor of Adopting the Hurt Child and Parenting the Hurt Child.
REGINA M. KUPECKY LSW has worked in the adoption arena for more than thirty years as an adoption placement worker and therapist. She was named “Adoption Worker of the Year” in 1990 by the Ohio Department of Human Services.
She is currently a therapist with Dr. Keck at the Attachment and Bonding Center of Ohio where she works with children who have attachment disorders. She trains nationally and internationally on adoption issues sibling issues and attachment.
Ms. Kupecky authored a resource guide Siblings Are Family Too which is available through the Three Rivers Adoption Council in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. She has coauthored a curriculum with Dr. Keck and Arleta James called Abroad and Back: Parenting and International Adoption and has written a curriculum on sibling issues titled My Brother My Sister: Sibling Relations in Adoption and Foster Care.