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Recent Adoption Blog | August 2009 Posts

Book Review: A Mother for Choco

by Pam Connell

30 Aug 2009 05:56 PM

A 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 Bear

by Pam Connell

28 Aug 2009 02:23 PM

Nikolai, 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 Express

by Pam Connell

25 Aug 2009 09:33 PM

As 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 About

by Pam Connell

22 Aug 2009 06:14 PM

My 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" Child

by Pam Connell

20 Aug 2009 10:56 PM

My 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 Children

by Pam Connell

15 Aug 2009 03:08 PM

Sometimes 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 Child

by Pam Connell

12 Aug 2009 09:17 PM

Last 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.



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ttstevens says...

"We met my son's halmoni (Korean grandmother) this past April on a trip to Korea."

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