June 08, 2018
Adoption and Parenting Reads of the Week
It’s Friday! Isn’t that great?
How was your week? Great? Awful? Either way, we hope you’re ready for the weekend and that relaxation is on the docket.
We’ve got some really interesting pieces for you today — excellent perspectives on adoption, a study that shows children are behaving worse than ever (and what we can do about it), and a call to support those in our community on their adoption journey. All beautiful reminders that adoption is a vast world that touches so many lives. We’re so grateful it brought you into ours.
Happy weekending!
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Studies show that children are behaving worse than ever. What we can we do about it? One of the reasons, a child educator suggests, is that “children today are too ‘unemployed.’ She doesn’t simply mean the occasional summer job for a high school teen. The term is a big tent, and she uses it to include household jobs that can help even toddlers build confidence and a sense of community.”
Some people told this couple that adopting would throw a wrench in their “perfect family” — but what makes a perfect family anyway?
This mama shares her beautiful adoption story, contending that adoption isn’t any scarier than having biological children.
Why we need each other on the adoption journey. “What I’ve seen happen is that we often walk away from one another. The adoptive family that seems to have it easy walks away from the adoptive community thinking they must not need it, and the adoptive community that has it much harder isolates the adoptive family that seems to have it so easy. It’s as if we don’t want each other in our circle. Speaking as one who has had it a bit harder and seeing those that don’t, sometimes I feel like it must be all my fault the way my kids are.”
40 unexpected ways to help the environment right now — great ideas for summer activities with the kids! They also make for lovely activities and positive distractions if you’re waiting to be matched.
What every foster parent wants to tell you, but probably never will.