When you’re adopting a child, you’re thrown into a fast and furious learning process, which includes healthcare. Depending on your relationship to your child’s birth parents, you may not have full access to their medical history, which means you don’t have an automatic trove of information about your child to pass off to their doctor. […]
Read MoreWe are a world divided by our differences. It enrages us, separates us, and generates devastating misunderstandings. It’s something that we in the adoption world have been dealing with for such a long time. Everyone always wants to focus on what makes our families different. How we’re built differently, or look different from our children. […]
Read MoreAll parenting journeys share this in common: before you meet your child, you have no clue what will resonate with them. Which is why articles about how you should parent, discipline, or communicate with your child may offer helpful tips, but are never absolutes. You don’t know what your child will respond to until you […]
Read MoreWhen you are a waiting adoptive parent, talking with a prospective birth mother can come with a lot of nerves. It’s easy obsess over the things you think she wants to hear. But when you project your assumptions onto her, what you lose is your authenticity. And that’s the most powerful currency you have. This […]
Read MoreThe school year has started again, and it can be a really vulnerable time for kids. Their schedule is changing, they’re being sized up against a new crop of kids, and more than likely, they’re facing a whole new set of challenges brought on by a whole new grade in school. Exposure to bullying, status, […]
Read MoreOne of our favorite things about adoption is that it is a lifelong learning experience. We learn from our children, their birth families, ourselves, the world. The worlds it opens for us are constantly expanding. Today we thought we’d share some of our favorite stories of lessons learned through adoption. They’ve inspired us, and we […]
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