by Christi | Sep 12, 2022 | Adoption
1) Your child deserves to know the first part of their life story. Who did their big brown eyes come from? Why do they have ADHD? Where does their love of reading come from? These are all inherited traits that come from their birth family. 2) It’s not IF they find out...
by Christi | Sep 12, 2022 | Adoption
1) You are more prepared to be a parent after going through the adoption process than being pregnant 9 months! 2) All adoption agencies are pulling from the same pool of birth moms, no one agency has “better babies” than the next 3) Your child’s birth family...
by Christi | Sep 12, 2022 | Adoption
So, you’ve filled out the myriads of paperwork required by your agency. You’ve survived the endless questions from your caseworker during the home study. And, you feel that you have used up every creative juice in your body after having completed your Dear...
by Christi | Sep 12, 2022 | Adoption
Did you know that your adopted child has a lot in common with a comic book character who dresses in a stretchy blue suit and a red cape and flies? That’s right. Your child and Superman have a lot in common. They were both adopted. When we first talk to our children...
by Christi | Sep 12, 2022 | Adoption
DON’T SAY… DO SAY… your own child your birth/biological child your adopted child your child real/natural parent birth/biological parent child IS adopted child WAS adopted Illegitimate born to unmarried parents give up/put up/ surrender/release/ relinquish for adoption...
by Christi | Sep 12, 2022 | Adoption
I am sure all of you will agree that when we talk about adoption with our children it is very important that the language we use be positive and that it promotes good feelings about adoption. Keeping that in mind, I find it somewhat surprising that so much of the...
