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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 →

Parent Training 2

When you are going through the training you will learn about first aid, child proofing, how to discipline and it will also cover the sensitive issues that you may not think about. Some of the children in foster care have been physically, mentally or sexually abused. Part of the parent training will cover how to identify and help the children through the abuse. The stories you will hear and the pictures you will see are sure to tear at your heart, I mean how can you not be affected? When you see pictures of a sweet innocent child malnourished, with … Continue reading →