August 17, 2015

Adoption News Roundup

Happy Tuesday!

Here are some of the interesting articles that have caught our eye recently…

Back to school time is coming up…do you ever get nervous about how your kids are going to handle
“family tree”-related classroom assignments and activities? Adoptive Families has a great article about how to navigate these situations, featuring accounts and advice from parents who’ve dealt with this firsthand.

Are you waiting to be matched, or for your adoption to be finalized? Keeping a journal could help ease the stress.

“I didn’t give up my babies. I gave them more.”

Huffington Post shares 8 things adoptive parents should never ever do. What do you think about these things? Agree or disagree?

People may criticize open adoption, saying that it’s confusing for children. We happen to disagree. And this article shares some great reasons as to why.

“How I Accepted Choosing Adoption For My Son.” “Still, when I placed my newborn baby in another woman’s arms at the hospital, I grieved like a wild animal who’d lost her baby, carrying around a dead infant in her mouth, unable to let go. I was still Colin’s mother and I believed I always would be. It wasn’t until my daughter, Georgia, was born that I finally understood what my son’s mom had known all along: that the role of his mother belonged to no one else but her.”

5 things you should know about how orphanage life affects children. This is particularly important for anyone thinking of adopting a child from overseas, or domestically from an orphanage.

20 potty training tips. If you’re at that stage with your child, this is definitely one to read.

Did your newborn baby receive any of these 5 screening tests at birth?

Which life skills and lessons do you hope to teach your child(ren)?