This workshop will help adoptive parents understand the crucial importance of connecting our children to their roots (family of origin, genetics, race, ethnicity to name a few) as part of helping them develop permanence and constancy, the building blocks of attachment and health self- identity. Parents will learn clinically honed tools that support attunement, validation, attachment, and positive parenting. We will talk about why connecting our kids to their roots is foundational to the formation of their identity and healthy sense of self as well as a strong attachment to us their adoptive parents and what our job as adoptive parents is in connecting them to their roots - taking into account challenging circumstances and adolescence.