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When Your Family Needs Help: Resources for Parents

Here are some of the resources that have helped my adoptive family the most through the years, and the places I still go for advice when I need it.
- Posted by Sharon Van Epps to Be Bold or Go Home 1 year, 4 months ago | 2 Comments | Post a reply
Managing Everyday Life When Your Family Is Struggling

After adopting, it's critical that we simplify our lives and household routines so that we can focus on nurturing our children. Here's how.
- Posted by Sharon Van Epps to Be Bold or Go Home 1 year, 7 months ago | 7 Comments | Post a reply
When Your Family Needs Help: A Few More Thoughts on Privacy

Finding the balance between sharing and secrecy is a high wire act worthy of Cirque de Soleil. And if it's a challenge for us parents, who've chosen adoption freely, how much trickier is it for our kids, who had no choice?
- Posted by Sharon Van Epps to Be Bold or Go Home 1 year, 8 months ago | 4 Comments | Post a reply
When Your Family Needs Help, Part 1

Adoptive families should be able to reach out during the tough times -- and there will be tough times -- but without breaching their child's privacy.
- Posted by Sharon Van Epps to Be Bold or Go Home 1 year, 8 months ago | 28 Comments | Post a reply
An Ugly Conversation

Why did the couple sitting next to my big-for-his age African son and I at the restaurant launch into an ugly conversation about the Trayvon Martin case? I know, though sometimes I wish I didn't.
- Posted by Sharon Van Epps to Be Bold or Go Home 2 years, 2 months ago | 7 Comments | Post a reply
Because They Need to Know

Parents who adopted transracially live in constant tension: how thoroughly should we prepare our kids for the ugliness that exists in the world? How carefully should we guard their innocence?
- Posted by Sharon Van Epps to Be Bold or Go Home 2 years, 5 months ago | 9 Comments | Post a reply
Raising Children with Thankful Hearts

I want my children to feel gratitude for the fact that we're a family, as my husband and I do, but not indebted to us for adopting them.
- Posted by Sharon Van Epps to Be Bold or Go Home 2 years, 7 months ago | 8 Comments | Post a reply

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