The 2016 Tapestry Adoption & Foster Care Conference will be held October 21 & 22 at Irving Bible Church. Last year we went BACK TO BASICS, this year we decided to go BEYOND THE BASICS. We will feature TBRI trained professionals, Empowered to Connect Parent Trainers, Dr. Mandy Howard, and Dr. David Cross, co-author of [...]
Category: Parenting
Family Nurture Groups
We strive to connect with our kids as we teach them new skills. Â Before we can take away a survival skill, we need to replace it with a new one. One of the things we often suggest to families is for them to do family nurture group in their home. Before you begin Gather some [...]
I Will Never Leave You
Have you ever been in a restaurant and witnessed the interaction between a displeased customer and their waiter? It can be pretty tense depending on how difficult the customer makes it. But it is not the customerâs behavior that is the most interesting part of the interaction, itâs the response of the restaurant employees that [...]
A Day of Saying Yes!
One of the tools we teach in Empowered to Connect is having parents embrace the privilege of saying âYesâ to their children. Day one of our 2016 spring break was a day of saying yes at our house.
Connection Jars
Finding ways to connect with your kids can be hard. Connection jars can give you a quick and easy way to add connecting activities to your everyday routine. Set a certain time each day and allow each of your kids to pick an activity from the jar. Spending just 5 minutes each day connecting with [...]
What Does Your Label Say?
We live in a name it to claim it kind of world where we all like to label things. If it doesnât have a label, it doesnât make any sense. And if it doesn't make any sense, we don't know what to do with it. We even have label makers so that we can make [...]
I Get to Share my Mother’s Day
Today is Motherâs Day. It's the day we set aside to celebrate moms for all the hard work and loving attention they give to their children throughout the year. While it is a day of celebration and honor, it can be a day of conflicting emotions for some of us. Ten years ago I became [...]
Lazy Parenting
I donât consider myself a lazy person.  I am up early, I rarely sit down, and I always have a to-do list a mile long. I mean who has time to be lazy when you are a parent?  Yet I find myself parenting lazy.  I find myself saying ânoâ to my kids out of laziness.  I [...]
Thoughts on MLK Day
Today we pause and remember civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King. I can still remember the first time I watched footage of his âI Have a Dreamâ speech in history class. As a young man growing up in South Africa in the 1980âs Dr. King had a profound effect on my life because the [...]
Thoughts on Thanksgiving
I love Thanksgiving. It might just be my favorite holiday. I didnât grow up recognizing a national day of thanks and so I look forward to celebrating this year again. I love the way it smells, the weather is usually perfect, and thereâs football to watch. You could accuse me of being an idealist, but [...]