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Schedules Flip-Flop

Last time I talked about the nice and steady scheduling that educational environments provide for their students. Sure, it’s rough sometimes. Sure, there are night classes. Sure, you might be employed somewhere when you’re not literally sitting in a classroom, but the fact is plain to see that traditional education (and by this I mean anything not 24/7 and/or all online) provides a meaningful and predictable framework within which you have something on the educational front to do. (No this doesn’t include homework either… but stay with me for a while). This scheduling sort of mimics the nine to five … Continue reading →

Adoption Blog Month in Review: August 2007

A major theme for this month in the adoption blog was discussions—especially discussions with your child, but also discussions with others. I began the month sharing my four-year-old daughter Regina’s questions about her droopy eyelid in Talking With Kids About Special Needs, and in Principles for Talking with Kids About Special Needs I discuss how I tried to use the same tenets for talking about her eye that I use when talking about adoption issues. Regina also figures prominently in the next blogs. She told me, “I Don’t Like My Skin”. I stumbled through a response, shared in I Don’t … Continue reading →

Sleep Issues in Adopted Children, Part One

Adopted children can have all the sleep issues other do and then some. Parents use various methods to try to get their kids to sleep. Some of these methods may not be appropriate for adopted children depending on the circumstances. First let’s talk about sleep issues that apply to all children. Some children just seem to need less sleep (judge by how they are acting in the daytime, not whether they want to go to sleep!), some seem temperamentally more sensitive to separation from parents, some prefer to be swaddled and some dislike it, and many more normal differences. In … Continue reading →