March 08, 2015

Adoption News Roundup

We hope you had a wonderful, relaxing weekend! As we start the week, we wanted to share a few links and bits of news that caught our eye over the weekend…

This empowering video shares singer Joni Mitchell’s thoughts on placing a baby for adoption. They’ve since reunited and she has some fascinating thoughts to share on the experience.

What an inspiring adoptee story. This young woman shares her life in foster care, and how it felt to finally be adopted. She says, “I had spent almost 10 of my 12 years in foster care; I was now living in my fourteenth placement. Some homes had lasted less than a week; few more than a year. So why would this one be any different?”

Are your children having difficulty adjusting to Daylight Savings Time? Here’s a great article sharing tips for helping them ease into the time change!

A fascinating article from NPR. Can family secrets make you sick? “In the 1980s, Dr. Vincent Felitti, now director of the California Institute of Preventive Medicine in San Diego, discovered something potentially revolutionary about the ripple effects of child sexual abuse. He discovered it while trying to solve a very different health problem: helping severely obese people lose weight.”

Love this. “7 Things I’m So Glad I Ignored About Parenting Lists.” DNA, open adoption, spousal love…it’s all covered.

Have you ever thought about foster to adoption? This article in The Guardian argues it could be one of the best things you ever do. “Jim Bond, a former teacher and community worker who has been fostering for 18 years, has this to say: ‘The best thing about being a foster carer is being able to share the lives of young people in crisis and helping them to see that there is a choice. Don’t jump into it – think long and hard – but if you do do it, it will be the best thing you have ever done.'”

A hilarious article from a mother who routinely takes her seven children to Costco, and her response to the stares they get. “I know you watched as we navigated our vehicle into the crowded parking lot.  You stood in awe as we wedged our trendy 15 passenger mega-van into a parking space between a 2 door Miata and a very roomy shoe box- on-wheels deemed a Smart Car. You saw us attempt to unload our family with as much class, decorum and organization as we could humanly muster… and 23 minutes later file toward Costco with our seven *progeny and three carts for our weekly shopping trip.”