Difficult Conversations with Adopted Children

23 September 2024
Zoom | 6.30 – 9pm

Trainer: Adoption UK

Adoptive parents who have attended Adoption UK Wales’s Life Journey Work and Contact courses often ask how to have difficult conversations with their children, especially about the traumatic experiences and behaviour that led to children not being able to live with birth parents, birth family members or foster carers.  This session aims to address these issues in more detail and focus on how we can start talking about these really difficult topics from a very early age.  There will also be an opportunity to talk about the following:

  • What to share with your family and friends
  • Risks/reality of conversations started online
  • Helping childrentalk with their peers about being adopted

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