Tools and Resources for Adoptive Families
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-Parent Resources
Many of the guides are in pdf format. If you don't have Acrobat Reader, you can download it at the Adobe
web site--just click on the link below.
Getting Your Toolbox Ready–Starting Out... Are you a waiting parent or one just recently united with your child? Are you thinking about adoption and are doing some research. Here are some guides that are good reading for you and your spouse.
NEW! Are You at the End of Your Rope? Help for New and Old Parents When Emotions Run High (This pdf file is formatted for social workers and agencies to print and use in new or post adoptive parent packets.)
Toolbox for Talking About Adoption When is the right time to start? What's the right thing to say? These guides will give you tools and ideas to work in your family.
A Sample Lifebook for a Toddler (2-3)...the Baby Lifebook
this book uses just photos, you add the words as you learn the adoption talk and get comfortable with talking adoption to your child
Forever Fingerprints Entrustment Ceremony
Sherrie Eldridge has created this adoption ceremony idea pamphlet to use with an entrustment ceremony or adoption ceremony with known birthparents. What a wonderful lifebook addition for an adopted child to have forever fingerprints from birthparents. Click here to download additional Forever Fingerprint Sheets for a lifebook or memory book. Find out more about Forever Fingerprints
Toolbox for Parenting Is it adoption or is it biology and how can you tell the difference? These resources help you to understand the layers adoption brings to the mix and to remind all of us of the joys of parenting.
ADOPTION
PARENTING E-Group: This e-group provides a network
of information, resources and insightful adoption parenting advice
from professionals and from "parent experts". It's topic driven
and the topics change every two weeks. Topics are archived and
it has been a tremendous resource. You need to be parenting adopted
or fostering children to be approved for membership. EMK Press sponsors this
group.
NEW! I stumbled on these terrific podcasts from Christine Moers. Many people talk about therapeutic parenting, but in these podcasts, she gives you some tools to help you figure out how to do this. She is a parent by birth and adoption and is parenting kids with RAD. She has a blog too...find it here. And a terrific sense of humor! Therapeutic Parenting--Feelings
Toolbox for Parenting A Different Race Stepping outside our collective understanding and squarely into the shoes of those who look different from us is essential and necessary.
Toolbox for Homeland Visits Travel back to your child's country of origin takes preparation. What do you need to know to have a successful homeland visit?
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