FAB Parents

A coherent framework for understanding and parenting adopted and foster children

A COHERENT FRAMEWORK FOR THINKING

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Want honest answers to tough questions? Want realistic solutions?

FAB Parents offers a road map and resources for adoptive and foster parents and the professionals who touch their lives.

“This is what I wished I’d had at every stage of my  25 year parenting journey” Helen Oakwater. (Adoptive parent, coach, trainer, speaker, author of Bubble Wrapped Children and Founder FAB Parents). 

Deep understanding is the key to successful and rewarding parenting. FAB Parents offers a robust, proven framework which allows you to have a more fulfilling parenting experience and honours the child’s life experiences.

The website has much free information in articles, audios and videos. Please explore and relish. Fresh material is added regularly.

Popular Online Training Course: Trauma Triggered Behaviour  here  Over 8 hours material. Great value. Money back guarantee 

There is no risk to you , we offer a 100% no quibble, money back guarantee for 30 days, if you are not totally happy with your purchase.

Taster of online course. It’s a free sample and suitable for all. Six video lessons (27 minutes) giving a juicy overview into the world of Trauma Triggered Behaviour. Get access now.

“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom” John Rohn

Sample the introductory video

 

 

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National Adoption Week is always emotive. The intent is to recruit adopters. Unsurprisingly some experienced adopters rant at the saccharine articles in newspapers, knowing that below the rhetoric is a deficit of ongoing, deep, appropriate support. Failing to take the long view, over decades is a strategic, economic and humanitarian mistake. PAC-UK had a splendid series […]

Ever wonder why adopted and foster children behave in apparently nonsensical ways? Why do they self sabotage? Why do kind or constructive words fail to impact their behaviour? It’s because beliefs drive behaviour. That concept rocked my world back in February 2002 on the morning of my first NLP course. It explained so much about […]

Compare and contrast these two babies. SANDY (Securely Attached Normally Developed Youngster) all needs met regularly. TIM (Traumatised Infant Maltreated) neglected, ignored, hurt. This is the draft cartoon of the opening to my next book; “So you want(ed) to adopt. Ponder their probable life path. Ponder the sort of parenting Tim will need in adoptive […]

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