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Archive for April, 2007

Parenting With Love, Not Fear

Teaching Through Love Instead of Fear
by Pam Leo
“However we treat the child, the child will treat the world.”
- Pam Leo
Can you imagine threatening your partner or good friend by counting “One… two… three…” if he or she did not do what you wanted?
One of the big issues in schools today is “bullying.” Parents and teachers [...]

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More Adoption Blogs

Here’s a few more blogs I’ve stumbled upon in the last couple of weeks. I hope you enjoy them as I have been.
Peter’s Cross Station is about Shannon, Cole and their daughter Nat, now two years old. Their journey, which led them to a transracial open adoption, actually started on this blog. They’ve [...]

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15 Fun Things To Do With Your Children

Members of the Forever Parents adoption forums put their thinking caps on and came up with a bunch of fun, free or low cost activities you can do with your children. This list is being submitted as part of Friday Fifteen.
1. Go to the library. You can participate in a free activity and borrow a [...]

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13 Ways To Help Finance An Adoption

Thirteen ways to help finance adoption costs
1. Look for ways you can cut back, they may add up to considerable savings. Put that money into a seperate high interest account. Do you need two cars, 300 premium cable channels, all those magazine subscriptions?
2. Refinance your home
3. Hold a fund raiser like a carwash, bingo game, [...]

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Adoption Article Featuring Our Family

Article published Jul 10, 2005 in the Star Banner
Three adopted children enjoy new life, parentsJoanne and her husband Billy wanted children, but Joanne was in her 30s when they married and did not want to go through a slew of immediate pregnancies.
So, they began looking into adopting. When a counselor suggested that they consider adopting [...]

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Self Care For Parents

We asked members at our adoption forums what little things they do on an everyday basis to take care of themself? What preventive measures do they take?
** When I’m really stressed out…I WALK. I love to walk…could do it all day, really I could. It’s gotta be a brisk one too…not the casual stuff. I [...]

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Gay Couple Suing Adoption.com

Michael and Richard Butler are suing Adoption.com and its owners, Nathan and Dale Gwilliam, after their application to join the site was rejected back in 2003. Last week a federal judge allowed their discrimination lawsuit to go to trial.
The Butlers have since adopted a daughter.
Judge Hamilton’s decision was an important victory for gay rights because [...]

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Creating A Nurturing Environment For Your Child

Creating More Nurturing Environments for Children
by Pam Leo
“What people become under one set of circumstances does not tell us very much about what they might have become under another.” - John Holt
Given a choice, young children will usually choose to be in a natural environment. They want to be outdoors, in the fresh air and [...]

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Adoption Blogs

When I have extra time online, one of the thing I like doing is reading adoption blogs.
Here’s a few that I’ve been enjoying recently.
Tracy of The Trials & Tribulations of Trace in Adoption La-La Land blogs as she waits to adopt an infant domestically after deciding against fertility treatments. What I really like [...]

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Texas Needs Families For Older Children

Joyce James with Child Protective Services says more than half of the state’s 4000 abused and neglected children are over 9 years old. “While older children linger longer in foster care, we believe they deserve and need stable and loving families just as much as younger children.” James says her department has begun a program [...]

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