August 04, 2017

Adoption and Parenting Reads of the Week

Can you believe it is August? Whew! Summer always flies by. We make millions of plans and maybe a third of them come to fruition. But we’re in the home stretch now, and that means a few more weeks to bask in sunshine, relish ice cream, and get our kiddos running around, soaking up as much vitamin D as possible. Summer!

If you have a moment to soak up some good reads this weekend, might we recommend the below?

My child doesn’t remember his neglect as an infant, but his body does.

What do you do on your adopted child’s first day home when they aren’t a newborn?

This adoption surprise is priceless (and a tearjerker!)

How Russian adoptions became a controversial topic.

This is a beautiful story about how two parents chose to keep their adopted son’s name, which means “peace” in his native language of Ethiopia (he was adopted from an orphanage, not as a newborn). How do you feel about sharing the naming process with your child’s birth mother, or their native country?

The new book, A Life Let Go, features a memoir and five birth mother stories about closed adoption. It is filled with pain, and resilience, and incredibly important stories.

How do you define family?

Being a parent can easily make you reach your boiling point…the trick is in how you handle it. Here are some excellent tips for calming yourself down and bringing it back in when parenting has you feeling in over your head.