A friend who is starting down the adoption path sent this to me - it’s a great perspective of a grown man and his mom on transracial adoption. Worth a look, and perhaps worth watching more from Adoption Learning Partners. I found it refreshing and fun.
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I’m going to be away for the girls’ dance show next week (which is a bummer, cause I really want to see it,) but Jrock is taking over. He can’t go backstage like I would have been able to, but he’s ready! In fact, the girls need stage make-up, and after a few “No way! [...]
Back in February, the girls found a small radio in a geocache. For a month or so, whenever they would travel, they would split the earbuds and listen to the radio. But the old little thing broke. So I suggested to the girls that they try to earn some money and buy a new one.
They [...]
So if you are one of the parenting school that doesn’t think we should teach our kids about procreation until they are older, teenagers, or possibly married, don’t watch the video below. Or if you don’t want to hear scientific names for male/female body parts, don’t watch the video either. It might offend you - and I [...]
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I was reading an insightful post on the quagmire of being a mom, and getting it right by Sharla tonight. It really rang true for me - especially since I read the funniest and freakishly true magazine article on the same topic.
“The battle of all mothers” in Today’s Parent:Â
When my son was four, a woman [...]
I have started wrapping up my contract from the last two months (which really had me and Jrock hoppin!) so I’m trying to get back into the swing of things. I sewed another nightie the other night, in preparation for summer weather… what I thought was so funny was
1. now I can try the clothes [...]
This was one of the most specific, but USEFUL! tips we got from a fellow adoptive parent (thanks S!)
They toilet-train kids pretty young in Ethiopia (but breast-feed much longer,) which makes total sense if you think about it. On one side, kids get proper nutrition longer and a safer liquids-source. On the other side, they [...]
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One thing that parents have to be aware of when we adopt transracially is that our family becomes conspicuous. Anonymity does not exist for us anymore, unless we go out without our kids, of course. Then we just - blend.
I think every family in this situation has some variation along the theme, but we do [...]
Of course all of you who have kids know this, but I feel like venting anyway.
Sugar has a snotty nose and what appears to be the early onslaught of an eye infection, so she’s bullish and indifferent this morning. Spice had a bad dream last night and didn’t seem to sleep well after. She’s whinging [...]
Jrock clipped this out of the paper for me. Ya think he’s making fun of me?
(Not wanting to risk copyright infringement, I linked to the original on the artist’s blog.)Â
I’d like to take a bit of your reading time and talk about how our attachment and relationship growth has gone with the girls. I think a bunch of you will be interested, especially our family, and all our readers who have or who are waiting to adopt kids.
We’re almost at the 6th month mark [...]
When Jrock ad set out on our “Adoption Journey” we started going to seminars, doing our homestudy homework, and I read a ton of books on parenting. We had a lot of discussions, mostly in our car on long trips, about our approach as parents and how we were going to handle certain situations. We [...]
A friend gave us a book (”The Baby Whisperer for Toddlers” - bad name, but good book) and inside was a small section on values-based parenting. Well, in the work I do we also use a lot of value-based planning and value-based management. In fact,a book that was very helpful to get our relationship off [...]
We had a quieter week - which is good because I have bronchitis (the nasty cold I caught on the plane home that just got worse and worse…) and Jrock is suffering from a nasty cough too. We take turns sleeping on the sofa because if one person isn’t coughing like crazy the other one [...]
You’ve seen pictures and a little description of meeting the girls for the first and second times at the transition home, if you’ve been following the blog. But here is a little more.
The first day we went to the transition home, I wasn’t sure what we would find, considering the food situation and everything. But [...]
