Media Library
Parenting | Adoption | Foster Care
Title Starts with 'A'
The Our City Blessed media library items are available to borrow for personal use at no cost using the honor system. In order that others may utilize the library resources, we ask that you only borrow up to three media item at a time and return them within a month.
Media library requests from our ministry cities will be delivered and picked up by one of our team members or volunteers.
While our focus is the cities in which we have ministries, we accept media library requests for those who live elsewhere. Our City Blessed will ship these media requests. For shipped media, we ask that if you are able to please pay for the return shipping. If unable to pay, please check the box when submitting the Media Request Form and we will include a postage paid return envelope.
Library media is listed alphabetically by title.
10 Secrets to Motivate Unmotivated Kids
Celebrate Calm
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DVD -- Internally motivate kids who don’t respond to consequences, are apathetic or don’t care about school.
Get your kids to stop playing video games and start being purposeful.
Inspire kids who appear angry, negative, lazy or entitled.
10 Secrets to Successful Children
Celebrate Calm
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DVD -- If you do not take ten specific steps now, your children will not be prepared for success. They will withdraw, give up or become defiant. This must have resource is filled with positive, practical strategies that every parent needs.
88 Great Conversation Starters for Dads and Daughters
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Cards -- Box of double-sided cards to use as a fun way for dads and daughters to get to know one another better 88 conversation starters Each has a question and a Scripture verse Sure to spark conversation and laughter By Rob Teigen Card size 4.35" x 3.25" In colorful storage box
A Call to Love: Preparing Your Heart and Soul for Adoption
by Julie Holmquist
Item Number: 1709
Book -- If you're considering adoption or have just adopted, you've no doubt discovered that it's a spiritual and emotional journy as much as a physical and legal one. A Call to Love provides guidance for typical struggles you may face and shares stories from other parents about God's provision, love, comfort, and direction. At the end of each chapter is a "Rest Stop" with questons or a reflection and a page for journaling.
A Sensory World
The TCU Institute of Child Development
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DVD -- A Sensory World offers insights about how sensory processing disorders make it difficult for many children to function at home and school. Parents and professionals will learn to recognize signs of sensory disorders and will learn practical strategies for coping with them. Child Development researchers, Dr. Karyn Purvis, Dr. David Cross, and Carol Kranowitz provide a number of playful activities to help children overcome everyday struggles driven by sensory issues.
A Servant's Heart
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DVD -- Adoption itself may be a singular event, but the path toward healing for both a child and the family is ongoing. With support and care from those around them, adoptive families can truly thrive. A Servant's Heart helps individuals and churches understand how to rightly care for the adoptive and foster families in their community. This resource includes: Introduction and discussion questions for a small group setting, video content including a discussion with Pastor Brady Boyd about the need and real-life experiences from several adoptive families, and practical ideas for implementing a 4-week service project to WRAP around an adoptive family (WRAP = Wrestle in Prayer, Respite Care, Acts of Service, Promises of God). "We never thought about adoption, but God made it clear that we were to embrace this for our own family...You can't do it without a community that comes alongside and gives you breaks here and there. People in our congregation surrounded us with love and support." - Mike & Leesa Worley, Adoptive Family in Colorado
ADHD Universityâ„¢
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Celebrate Calm
DVD -- The most comprehensive program we’ve ever created. If your child struggles in school or with homework, this is a must have. Your child doesn’t have to have ADHD for this to work.
Dozens of practical strategies for any child who struggles with focus, anxiety, homework, impulse control, organization, social skills, transitions, etc.
Perfect for sharing with teachers.
Build confidence so your child accepts responsibility without making excuses.
Adoption: What Joseph of Nazareth Can Teach Us about This Countercultural Choice
by Russell D. Moore
Item Number: 1694
Item Number: Item Number: Book -- Joseph of Nazareth was a good and honorable man. The adoptive father of Jesus, he stood by his wife and raised her son - even when it appeared that she had betrayed him. Such is the love of adoption. Adapted from Russell Moore's influential book Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches, this short volume calls Christians to seriously consider adoption for their own families and thus take a stand for children - born and unborn.
Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents
by Deborah D. Gray
Item Number: 1189
Book -- Attaching in Adoption is a comprehensive guide for prospective and actual adoptive parents on how to understand and care for their adopted child and promote healthy attachment.
This classic text provides practical parenting strategies designed to enhance children's happiness and emotional health. It explains what attachment is, how grief and trauma can affect children's emotional development, and how to improve attachment, respect, cooperation and trust. Parenting techniques are matched to children's emotional needs and stages, and checklists are included to help parents assess how their child is doing at each developmental stage. The book covers a wide range of issues including international adoption, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, and learning disabilities, and combines sound theory and direct advice with case examples throughout.
This book is a must read for anyone interested in adoption and for all adoptive families. It will also be a valuable resource for adoption professionals.