October 21, 2017
Adoption and Parenting Reads of the Week
Happy Saturday!
How was your week? We hope good and not too stressful. The weekend is here, and that means we’re sharing our favorite adoption and parenting reads of the week. The pieces that inspired and informed, taught us something new or made us feel something lovely. We hope you enjoy.
See you Monday!
Three ways toxic stress impacts learning (video). These are important to note, especially if you adopted a child who experienced childhood trauma or suffers from anxiety, depression, or any other mental health disorder. There are ways to help them move through it!
An excellent and informative piece about what to do once you’ve been matched!
10 things that surprised this mama about adoption. “Adoption made me sad. I’d always thought of adoption as being a happy event…and it is…but there are so many layers. Post-partum depression is something that people understand. They smile and nod and murmur supportive words…but post-adoption depression? Yeah, not so much. People don’t understand.”
What a beautiful perspective: how adoption makes us the best version of ourselves.
California is passing a law that will end meal shaming in schools. “Students in California whose families owe money for school lunches will no longer be given only a snack — a cheese stick, an apple and a glass of milk — or nothing at all, until they’re all paid up. They’ll get the same meal as all the other students.”
For the first time ever, Americans are adopting more boys than girls.
The orphan this couple thought they adopted from Uganda wasn’t an orphan at all. “The child we had struggled for years to adopt was not an orphan at all, and almost everything that was written in her paperwork and told to us about her background was not an accurate description of her life in Uganda.”
We need to save the adoption tax credit! “Congress is considering eliminating the adoption tax credit, raising the cost of adoption and potentially hurting millions of American families. Congress needs to keep the adoption credit and make it refundable again to help even more children in need of a family. Save the Adoption Tax Credit is a national collaboration of organizations and individuals united to support adoption by advocating to save and improve the adoption tax credit.