Well, I was in the middle of writing about our attachment therapy, but…we have two new kiddos this week. So, that post is unfinished and you get raw, unedited me this morning. I love to writing for you. Its’ where I put my theology to work in every-day life. It’s how I process. It’s how I hope to encourage you who are already fostering because we need to know that we’re not crazy. What we experience with our kiddos is actually very normal for children from traumatic backgrounds. We really are doing okay even if our parenting looks nowhere near our neighbors.
Anyway, I get up early to write you. 5:00am early. I love it. Most mornings. The days I got sleep last night I love it. I never was a morning person till my kiddos and now it’s the only quiet time in the house. Nights don’t count. I’m brain dead by then.
But in order for 5:00am to work, schedules must work. Sleep must happen. And, sometimes, when you have new kiddos that just isn’t the case. Soothing kids back to sleep requires trust, and, well, we’re just not there yet. So, while schedules are invaluable for providing consistency, boundaries – which our kids can’t function without -and provision for their biological needs such as sleep sometimes building trust looks like letting them get up with you at 5:00am.
So, today, the post I’d been working on sits unfinished. Instead, I share my keyboard with a little one. So, between the 10,000 times I’ve gently removed his hands from the keys, deleted some random string of jkklelelj, I’ve let you into my real life and hope you can find some real encouragement in this simplistic rambling. Because, I didn’t have the focus to tell you about our attachment therapy this morning.
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