Recent Adoption Blog | August 2009 PostsBook Review: A Mother for Chocoby Pam Connell30 Aug 2009 05:56 PMA Mother for Choco is a book very popular with adoptive families. Choco is a young bird who lives all alone and wished he could have a mother. One day, he sets off to find her. First he spies a giraffe, and says, "Oh, Mrs. Giraffe, you are yellow like me! Are you my mother?" Mrs. Book Review: Nikolai, the Only Bearby Pam Connell28 Aug 2009 02:23 PMNikolai, the Only Bear is a story about a bear who lives in an orphanage (in Russia. Nikolai is the only bear in the orphanage. He is three years old. He tries to play with the other children, but they are afraid of him. Book Review: The White Swan Expressby Pam Connell25 Aug 2009 09:33 PMAs the sun rises over North America, four diverse households greet the day anticipating the same great event. At the same time, the moon rises over China, and four little ones go to sleep. More Issues to Think Aboutby Pam Connell22 Aug 2009 06:14 PMMy last several blogs have been inspired by my reading Waiting Child: How the Faith and Love of One Orphan Saved the Life of Another. Helping the "Parentified" Childby Pam Connell20 Aug 2009 10:56 PMMy last blog talked about children who have assumed responsibilities inappropriate for their age, and now must learn to be children-to trust, to explore, to play, to allow the adopted parent to parent any younger siblings. Children Who Don't Know How to be Childrenby Pam Connell15 Aug 2009 03:08 PMSometimes adoptive parents are surprised to discover that an older adopted child, toddler, school-age or teen, does not fit our society's image of a child. Sometimes children have been responsible for taking care of themselves. Issues Illuminated in The Waiting Childby Pam Connell12 Aug 2009 09:17 PMLast week I wrote about Cindy's Champnella's book The Waiting Child: How the Faith and Love of One Orphan Saved the Life of Another, which tells the incredible story of her four-year-old daughter's campaign to find a family for a toddler she had been assigned to take care of at her orphanage. The Waiting Child: How the Faith and Love of One Orphan Saved the Life of Anotherby Pam Connell04 Aug 2009 09:59 PMThis book is a tearjerker, but so much more. Recent Blog Comments Pam Connell says... "Thanks for sharing this experience." In Star's Death Occasions a Reminder of When and How to Mention Adoption centraloregonmom says... "Thank you!" In Star's Death Occasions a Reminder of When and How to Mention Adoption |
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