May 18, 2018
Adoption and Parenting Reads of the Week
Happy Friday!
How are you doing? Are you getting the spring rain or the spring sunshine? There seems to be a lot of both going around right now.
We’ve got all sorts of great reads for you this week: tips for making your adoption profile, balancing open adoption relationships and bonding with your newborn, 5 brilliant coping skills for kids, and a beautiful story about finding adoption in the most unexpected way.
Enjoy, share, and have the best weekend.
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Excellent tips for making a great adoption profile! “Expecting parents often want to see how you plan on incorporating cultural differences in your everyday life. Show the diversity in your family, neighborhood, school or church and discuss the support system you have in place so your child will have racial mirrors in their lives.”
This incredible story proves that adoption is not always planned, and that it can arise in the most magical ways.
Excellent tips for having a healthy, balanced open adoption relationship.
What are the best adoption loans?
Thoughts on bonding with your newborn post-adoption.
Basic facts about the realities of adoption in 2018.
What happens when your child’s birth mother is having a baby?
Why you need to protect your prospective child’s privacy while fundraising your adoption.
5 coping skills that help kids regulate. “To “regulate” means “to keep under control.” To regulate our emotions means that we keep our emotions in control. Everyone experiences a dis-regulated state of emotions at one time or another. Being in a state of dis-regulation feels like a simmering pot that starts to boil over. We all have to learn how to re-regulate once our emotions are out of sorts.”