Parenting Your Adopted Preschooler

Series Title: Factsheets for Families

Author(s): Child Welfare Information Gateway

Year Published: 2015

(PDF - 445 KB)

This factsheet is designed to help adoptive parents understand their preschooler's developmental needs. It also provides practical strategies to promote a warm and loving parent-child relationship based on honesty and trust. It offers information on development, talking about adoption, and appropriate discipline.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Adoption and child development

Gaps in development

Talking about adoption

Discipline considerations

Summary

We also recommend the following Information Gateway publications:

Finding and Using Postadoption Services
(Factsheets for Families)
Parenting Your Adopted School-Age Child
(Factsheets for Families)
Parenting Your Adopted Teenager
(Factsheets for Families)

Suggested Citation: Child Welfare Information Gateway. (2015). Parenting your adopted preschooler. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

This material may be freely reproduced and distributed. However, when doing so, please credit Child Welfare Information Gateway.