Adoptive Parenting
Susan Ward
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Parents are often treated as less informed than the professionals that treat their children. However, parents are often THE most informed on the overall care and treatment their children need.
What You Want and Don't Want to Hear From an Adoption Agency
Insight into good and poor adoption agencies. Tips and what they should be saying, and what they shouldn't be saying to help create strong families.
Tips on maintaining control, while helping adopted children to grow and learn. These suggestions are appropriate for children who are diagnosed with behavioral and emotional issues, or children merely struggling to adjust to their forever family.
Why is it especially important to provide consistent parenting to children who were adopted? Tips and suggestions.
Comments about parents who adopt children with multiple emotional, behavioral, and neurological issues.
Creating a Sense of Self in Our Children
Tips and suggestions for helping adopted children create a sense of self.
Comments and ideas for helping our children develop social and emotional skills in order to succeed in school, with friends, and througout life.
Thoughts about bringing a new dog home and the similarities to bringing a newly-adopted older child home.
Discusses many ways that adoptive parents look to spirituality throughout their adoption and parenting.
Inside an Adoptive Family: After More Than Four Years
Weekly insights into the life of an adoptive family. This slice of life describes mor than 4 years as an adoptive family.