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 [...]

  • Share/Bookmark
Read the full article →

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 [...]

  • Share/Bookmark
Read the full article →

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 [...]

  • Share/Bookmark
Read the full article →

Between Conferences

September 29, 2011

A quick update from me…
The session, “Tips from the Trenches: Finding Middle Ground in Open Adoptive Parenting” that my friend and colleague Lori Holden (of WriteMindOpenHeart and the Open Adoption Examiner) and I presented at the Open Adoption Symposium: Realities, Possibilities and Challenges in Richmond, VA was well-received.  We challenged our attendees to participate in [...]

  • Share/Bookmark
Read the full article →

The Hard Truths: Band-Aids Won’t Work

September 22, 2011

I can’t stress enough how important it for parents to share all of their child’s birth history and related facts with them prior to adolescence, in age-appropriate language. Yes, the hard truths are difficult to share because adoptive parents have so much emotion invested in the adoption journey and love their children so deeply. But [...]

  • Share/Bookmark
Read the full article →

Review of What To Expect From Your Adopted Tween

September 17, 2011

Michelle McNally, a mom to two wonderful children through open adoption, recently shared a review of my e-guide, What To Expect From Your Adopted Tween, on The Open Adoption Examiner. Michelle parents young kiddos, pre-tween. She is representative of the parents that my new e-guide is written for.
“As an adoptive parent I read Judy Miller’s [...]

  • Share/Bookmark
Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →