Recommended Reading for Kinship Families

During our October kinship family support dinner, guest speaker Nicky Wingate spoke about her experience supporting and advocating for children in a school setting. (Read our post 504s and IEPs: Advocating for Your Child’s Educational Supports for more from her talk.)

In addition to sharing information on working with your child’s school and teachers, Wingate shared books from her family’s collection that have helped them explore topics at home such as emotional regulation, identity, ADHD, trauma, adoption, and more.

Check out this list of recommended books for kinship families:

For Children

• Everyone Feels Sad Sometimes

• Everyone Feels Angry Sometimes

• Everyone Feels Anxious Sometimes

• Right Now, I Am Brave

• I Choose to Calm My Anger

• Like Me: A Story About Disability and Discovering God’s Image in Every Person

• Happy in Our Skin

• God Found Us You

• You’re Always Enough and More Than I Hoped For

• When God Made You

• Mighty Mila

• The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be

• Different: A Great Thing to Be!

• The Skin You Live In

• Thriving with ADHD: Workbook for Kids

• Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 (young adult series)

For Adults

• The Lucky Few: Finding God’s Best in the Most Unlikely Places

• Scoot Over and Make Some Room: Creating a Space Where Everyone Belongs

• Grace Based Parenting: Set Your Family Free

• Habits of the Household

• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

• The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family

• What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew