From the category archives:

Advocating

Can We Heal? Can We Help To Heal?

November 3, 2011

By Presidential proclamation November is again Adoption Awareness Month. In regard to this, two-time adoptee Jennifer Lauck, author of the best sellers Blackbird, Still Waters and Found, has launched an initiative to open up a national conversation about adoption.
Jennifer believes, as I do, that there is a way to heal and transcend the experience of adoption [...]

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Advocacy: Orphans and Vulnerable Children Matter

October 24, 2011

What is your family doing for Halloween? If you’re like us, you’re probably expecting troves of zombies, princesses, Lady Gagas, super heroes, and Harry Potters and casts of his characters. And similarly, you’ve purchased an obscene amount of unhealthy, although delicious, candy and other yummies to give out to costumed children who will bravely knock [...]

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Preparing School-Aged Siblings

October 12, 2011

“Is _______’s other mommy sad?”
This was the question from my son, then age six, just days after we arrived home with our daughter—his sister. My son was overjoyed and oh-so-proud of his baby sister. Prior to her arrival home (and still to this day) he learned vast amounts of information and embraced her birth culture [...]

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Symposium 2011 Opening Adoption

August 29, 2011

I’m presenting with my friend and colleague Lori Holden of WriteMindOpenHeart and the Open Adoption Examiner on “Tips from the Trenches: Finding Middle Ground in Open Adoptive Parenting” at the Open Adoption Symposium: Realities, Possibilities and Challenges in Richmond VA, September 23-24, 2011.
Registration is $85 for the two-day symposium and includes lunches. Registration is open through [...]

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Triggers: Separation

August 24, 2011

I’m up early again to write a post about triggers, specifically college, one my family is currently affected by. I address triggers as they relate to parenting children who have been adopted in-depth in my new terrific new e-guide, What To Expect From Your Adopted Child.
My oldest is heading off to college today and it [...]

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Now on Sale: What To Expect From Your Adopted Tween

August 1, 2011

Parenting is the most exciting, challenging, rewarding, emotionally taxing, and, hopefully, joyous role you will ever undertake. (I’m sure you have a host of words to describe parenting that I didn’t use…) My new e-guide, What To Expect From Your Adopted Tween, offers a balanced approach to understanding and supporting adolescents who have been adopted [...]

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