From the category archives:

Unresolved Issues - Parents

The Importance of Your History

January 30, 2012

History: Events that have happened in the past. People you’ve known, what you’ve experienced. How you were parented. What continues to shape you, your personality and feelings. What guides you on your journey…
What’s your life story? Are there threads of themes or feelings? Are there particular phases you are uncomfortable with or haven’t resolved?
I ask [...]

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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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Adoption “Invisible”

April 16, 2011

The adoptive status of children must be addressed early on, and be ongoing. How children view and process adoption changes as they move through the developmental stages.
Children who are the same race as their adoptive parents comprise a healthy percentage of adoptions, regardless if their adoption was domestic or international. Children who are the same [...]

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Understanding

July 12, 2010

Adoptive parenting. Parenting a child that was not born to you, oftentimes a child who is of a different background, culture and/or race than you.
Becoming a parent is exciting, awesome, humbling, and daunting. Parenting is rewarding and challenging. Becoming an adoptive parent begs that you suspend your preconceived notions of parenting and diligently work on [...]

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Race and Culture Considerations for Transracial Adoptive Parents: A Check-Up

June 14, 2010

What race was your child when you adopted him or her? What race were you when you adopted your child?
 
What race are they now? What race are you now?
What was your child’s culture before you adopted him or her? What is it now?
What was your culture before you adopted your child? What is it now?
How do [...]

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Parenting Your Adopted Child: Tweens, Teens & Beyond Begins Tomorrow!

April 6, 2010

Spring has arrived and that means that my April class for adoptive parents of tweens and teens begins! I’m looking forward to tomorrow, when we get the ball “rolling.”  
So, what is the class about? In a nutshell, Parenting Your Adopted Child is a six-week e-mail course that focuses on helping adoptive parents support adopted tweens [...]

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