Life as a visible family can be challenging, but it's never dull
An unexpected encounter with an Ethiopian family prompts one adoptive mother to imagine the life that might have been for her Ethiopian child. Then her daughter brings her back down to earth,
I have made peace with the fact that I don't have to serve as an adoption educator to everyone I meet, and yet, getting keeping silent about the assumptions of strangers takes its own toll on me.
The terrible earthquake in Haiti prompts one mom to consider what her kids have learned about giving -- and what they have to teach her about generosity.
Lessons about bigotry and racial discrimination are ones I'd just assume my children never learn. But, in the end, it's better we tackle them together.
When I caught the swine flu recently, our children's old memories and lingering fears of parental trauma rose again to the surface.
On that soccer field full of 8-year-olds, I found no trace of the pale, thin, worried little girl we brought home from India almost three years ago.
It's clear that letting D. go to a more attentive home had to be one of the better choices Anita Tedaldi made in the course of her adoption journey.
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Yep we’re a work-in-progress around here, Danielle. ...
Ladies…don’t mean to hijack your posts but I have been searching for others that may be able to help me. I have 3 biokids that…...
Very cool mommy2k. I love the font of the “K”. Very pretty and meaningful! ...
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We too have an adopted child. Get this…..we (you and I) are cousins! We need to meet. Our sons will have something in common that…...
I hope your experience and advice will help others who are planning visits with their child’s birth family. You brought up a lot of points…...
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