Older Child Adoption

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• Turn-keys: touch

  
  Another Espresso Please — Authority: 417
  Ive written a bit about what I have found, for us at least, to be "turn-keys " in the process of adoption and adjustment. Lately, Ive been thinking a lot about another key (again, disclaimer: These are just my humble bossy opinions, not any expert or professional claim to knowledge) . This key is one of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• National Adoption Month: Bittersweet

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  This years theme for National Adoption Month--which occurs in November--is "You dont have to be perfect to be a perfect parent" (what a relief--right?). Jokes aside, I should be happy about this special month to celebrate adoption. But Im not, not totally anyway.  Ive written about this over at The Faster Times ...
  3 weeks ago

• Adjustment: Marking the good. redux

  
  Another Espresso Please — Authority: 417
  I dont have a picture. Not the right picture anyhow. I have this picture, far below, which will have to suffice. I had a "mark the good" moment today. And because I have written before about how I think its important to MARK the good when you recognize it, I want to write this down...for the record, and so it ...
  3 weeks ago

• Real kids. On their own.

  
  Another Espresso Please — Authority: 417
  Teenagers. What happens to them? I mean, what happens to them if they dont have a family? If they dont have a home? A bedroom? A safe place to be? Enough food, enough care? Someone to watch over them, to give them grief, to tell them "good job", or "nice try", or "hey, no attitude!"? What if no one is there to say ...
  4 weeks ago

• sneaking off

  
  :: Adventures In Daily Living :: — Authority: 100
  If you know us in real-life, or even in blog-life I guess, you know that Dandy is not a free-range kid. I always have to know where he is and what he is doing. If I dont, he gets himself into trouble. Its not a lot different from parenting a 4-year-old, only a lot taller. Any way, he has been sneaking off for ...
  5 weeks ago

• Firsts

  
  Another Espresso Please — Authority: 417
  No adoption blog really is complete without posting that ongoing, ever growing, list of firsts. The list ranges from the mundane to the sublime, but they all have impact and are a privilege for us to witness. Fun and nervewracking, scary sometimes, sometimes hard, but really...its always cool to expand a world, bit ...
  5 weeks ago

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