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Archive for June, 2007

A Young Adoptee Deals With Past Hurt

I recently posted about my 12 year old daughter discovering that she’s an “adoptee”, which is why I chose the title of this post.
If you’ve read our adoption story, you know that she and her siblings were removed from their biological home and placed into protective custody the day before her 4th birthday. *sigh* [...]

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Learning How To Be A Better Parent

Good Parenting Skills Can Be Learned by Jon Arnold
We all want to be good parents and learn good parenting skills. Parenting is a full time job, and sometimes it may seem like MORE than a full time job, but when it gets down to it, we have to acknowledge that as parents, we are going [...]

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Finding Out You’re An Adoptee

My 12 year old daughter just found out that she’s an ‘adoptee”.
No, we didn’t just tell her she was adopted. She already knew that being she was eight years old when we adopted her and her siblings.
What I mean is she just found out that there’s a “word” for someone who has been adopted. She [...]

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Transracial Adoption

Striking a deadly blow to racism
by James S. Goff
Racism is defined as ‘‘the belief in the superiority of one race over another and antagonism based on this belief.” However, racism is more complicated, divisive and pervasive than this simple definition provides. It is like a dark shadow that travels among humans, robbing them of their [...]

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Adoption Interviews: third installment

Here is the third installment in our series of interviews with adoptive and waiting parents that I did through e-mail and on our adoption forum. In an effort to show the many paths adoption can take, I’ll try and choose two that pursued adoption in different ways or are at different stages in their adoption [...]

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Teen Advice

Wearyparent.com wants to know what advice you received as a teenager that you took to heart.
Growing up, my mother had always been a source of inspiration for me. She was, and still is, one of my closest friends (she was my matron of honor when I got married) and someone I always went to for [...]

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Soulful Fathering

One of our members at the Forever Parents adoption forums shared this with us on the forums and it’s perfect for today. Happy Fathers Day!
Soulful Fathering
The five ‘p’s’ of fathering and other tips for spiritual dads.The following tips for soulful fathering are in honor of Father’s Day. Pass them along to your favorite dad. (Of [...]

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Support the Dave Thomas Adoption Foundation-Buy A Frosty!

Wendy’s is hosting something called “Father’s Day Frosty Weekend.” On June 16 and 17, participating Wendy’s restaurants across the country will donate a minimum of 50 cents from every Frosty product sold to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, which fills a critical gap by funding and supporting full-time foster adoption recruiters in all 50 [...]

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International Adoption

One of our long time adoption forum members shares her thoughts on becoming a mother and never giving up hope.
Parents That Waited: Dreams That Came True (Eventually)
By Robin Hutson aka Somebunniesmom
I’m tall and have red hair and blue eyes. I have fair skin, generously sprinkled with freckles. I have no business being in the sun. [...]

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A Few More Adoption Blogs I Like

I’ve been regularly sharing links to some of the adoption blogs I enjoy reading and here’s a few more for you to check out. You’ll find others under the category “Links of Interest”.
First is from my online pal Lori of Best Light Profile Review. Her blog, Weebles Wobblog has some great adoption posts (among other [...]

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