April 23 is Take a Chance Day—a lighthearted observance that celebrates spontaneity, taking risks, and the willingness to try something new. The internet fills with posts about skydiving, asking out a crush, launching a business, or ordering something unfamiliar off a menu. The underlying message:…
National Take a Chance Day, observed every April 23, celebrates stepping outside your comfort zone. Try something new. Take a leap. Embrace the unfamiliar. For most people, the invitation feels exciting, even liberating—a nudge toward the adventures and opportunities that caution has kept at arm’s…
Spring announces itself with urgency. Trees leaf out. Lawns turn green overnight. The natural world signals renewal so loudly that the culture adopts the season as a metaphor for resilience—spring cleaning, fresh starts, new beginnings. For Plan B parents—foster, adoptive, and stepparents—this seasonal optimism can…
Every April 15, Major League Baseball pauses to honor Jackie Robinson. Every player, coach, and umpire wears number 42. The ceremony commemorates the day in 1947 when Robinson walked onto Ebbets Field and broke baseball’s color line—a moment of extraordinary courage that changed American sports…
Planting Seeds You May Never See Bloom Every spring, gardeners push seeds into soil and wait. They water ground that looks the same as yesterday. They protect plots from frost, pull weeds, and check drainage—all before anything green breaks the surface. Some seeds sprout in…
A landmark 12-year longitudinal study reframes what your organization can do—and why it matters. Many staff members and leaders in youth-serving organizations carry a quiet tension. They engage with the ACE research, they understand the cumulative weight of adverse childhood experiences on the children and…
You probably didn’t expect parenting to feel like a siege. You opened your home, your life, and your heart. And then you waited — for connection, for trust, for the moment when something finally shifted. Maybe you’re still waiting to see your kids healing from…
Let's be honest. Some days our homes feel like a reality TV show nobody asked to audition for. The dog knocks over the laundry. Your child has a meltdown over the color of their cup. You realize — at 7:45 a.m. — that it's…
If you are a Plan B parent, you have probably had a version of this moment: you are watching your child struggle—with trust, with relationships, with behavior that seems to come out of nowhere—and a quiet fear settles in. What if the things that happened…
Every year on March 14th, people around the world observe National Write Your Story Day — a simple invitation to write about what’s on your mind. Founded in 2017, the day is a reminder to Plan B families that helping our children reclaim their stories…
As a full circle foster child, foster care worker and foster/adoptive parent, the life I have had has not been a walk-in-the-park. I lived many days as a child scrounging for food and facing shame in foster homes of other broken caregivers and youth. For…
A groundbreaking new study tells us that kids with ADHD may not be destined to a life of difficulties after all. We’ve watched kids bounce off the walls during homework time, interrupt at the dinner table, lose their jacket for the fourth time this month,…