August 18, 2014

Adoption News Roundup

Here’s a look at the links around the web that caught our eye this week:

To prepare, or not to prepare? That is a defining question for adoptive parents…even if you’ve been matched, do you go so far as to prepare the nursery? For one, it’s a huge step in the mental and actual preparation for your little one, but there’s also the reality about how devastating it would be to have an entire nursery set up and then maybe experience your adoption not going through. This adoptive mother shares her perspective.

“Fifteen years ago, a group of world leaders came together at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to commit to a vision of a better future. With a deadline of December 31, 2015, eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were put in place to accelerate progress on pressing issues in the developing world, including eradicating extreme poverty and combating deadly diseases like HIV/AIDS and malaria.” The health of women and children in developing countries was high up on that list, and with only 500 days of their goal left there is still a great ways to go. There are some really important live discussions and events coming up in conjunction with the Global Moms Challenge, to help spread awareness for this cause. Huffington Post has all the details.

This adoptee, who is now an education coordinator, reflects on her childhood and shares some advice about what it means to grow up as an adoptee. We find this articles to be infinitely important—you never know what perspective will shine the perfect light on your child and what they’re going through.

School’s almost back in session! One of our favorite parenting and adoption bloggers, Kristin Howerton, pens a great post about how to get your children to pack their own lunch. (Genius!) And here’s a great printable to help you out!

Love it! This daughter reunited with her birth mother only weeks before her wedding! How special would that be?

This great video shows how to use positive reinforcement as a tool for encouraging good behavior. Have you tried this? What results has it yielded for you?