Avoiding Homework Drama Article by ATN Schools Trainer

August 2017. Dr. Natalie Montfort, a clinical psychologist and adoptive mom, has an article featured in the August 2017 issue of Adoption Today on strategies to avoid homework battles with traumatized children.  Natalie wrote “Trauma Momma, Homework Drama” both to inform parents about ways they can reframe their thoughts around homework and give them permission to focus more on connection and regulation.  In addition to being the director of The Stewart Center of The Westview School for children and young adults on the autism spectrum, she and her husband are parents to two sons by adoption.  Natalie is a trainer with ATN’s Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools program.  Here’s a copy of the article —Homework article by Natalie Montfort