June 18, 2016

Adoption News Roundup

Happy Saturday!

What a beautiful weekend it is. Here are a few gems to entertain yourselves this weekend. We hope you enjoy.

Did you know that rejection of one parent is fairly common in toddler adoption?

“The disease of being busy.” Let’s make sure this very common “disease” isn’t affecting our children and the emotional support they crave from us. Or passing on dangerous habits.

Does your child know why their birth parents chose adoption? Sometimes having your child’s birth parents write a letter is a great way to communicate what can often feel difficult to understand.

American parents face the largest shortfall in happiness compared to people who don’t have children. Why is that? “The happiness gap between parents and nonparents in the United States is significantly larger than the gap found in other industrialized nations, including Great Britain and Australia. And in other Western countries, the happiness gap is nonexistent or even reversed. Parents in Norway, Sweden and Finland — and Russia and Hungary — report even greater levels of happiness than their childless peers.”

Are we all raising “screenagers?”

“Embracing inefficiency” as a parent.

7 de-cluttering tricks for kids’s rooms.

On parent-shaming in the wake of a tragedy. Here’s a thought: DON’T DO IT.

Residential schools, and modern adoption.

Love this! Princesses surprise 5 year-old in court to make her adoption magical.