Same Birth Mother, Vastly Different Feelings About Adoption
My daughter asks endless, complex questions about adoption. My son asks none. How can I best support my children, who have the same birth mother, as they grow?
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Life as a multilingual, multiracial, multicultural family
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Stolen
It is impossible to predict how your momma's heart will feel when the hard adoption questions come. I know I was not ready for the conversation that came a couple of weeks ago.
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On Being Color-Blind
Rather than teach our children to love and accept everyone in spite of their color, we have sought to teach them to love everyone and to celebrate, acknowledge, and respect their color and all that comes attached to it.
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The Afro
Learning to braid my adopted African-American daughter's hair was hard. Leaving it out in an afro brought different challenges.
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Explaining Adoption Where There’s No Culture of Adoption
In Ecuador, my homeland, adoption is not the norm and transracial adoption is even rarer. But on my most recent trip home, I found a way to encourage understanding of my family.
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Monster
As I watched my four-year-old son, happily playing the role of the playground monster, I wondered -- will he one day be unwillingly thrust into that role, due to racial stereotyping?
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The Person I Wish I Knew
How I wish I could provide my daughter with a picture of her birth mother. How I wish I could see a picture. But my children's birth mother chose a closed adoption.
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UPDATE! My Daughter's Biological Mom Called
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…...
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My Adoption Tattoo
Very cool mommy2k. I love the font of the “K”. Very pretty and meaningful! ...
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My Adoption Tattoo
i just did this last week and then saw your post today! i also blogged about it today at http://chixnuggetsandcookiebutts.blogspot.com/ i got my son’s first…...
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Thinking Back and Looking Ahead
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…...
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Debacle
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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Making the Leap from Birth Family to Family
Ambiel, thank you for sharing… I do appreciate it. Deb, that’s so exciting and fortunate. I’ll have to tell my good friend about this, her…...
