Sidebar Additions

I’ve been checking out some of the many word press plug-ins for this blog and I wanted to post about the few I added so far.
In the left sidebar, the last three comments and trackbacks will be listed. Also the top three commentators for each month will be listed, with a lnk back to their site or [...]

Reactive Attachment Disorder

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Parents of
Reactive Attachment Disordered Children
by Jody Swarbrick
Many foster and adoptive families of Reactive Attachment Disordered children live in a home that has become a battleground. In the beginning, the daily struggles can be expected, after all, we knew that problems would occur. Initially, stress can be so subtle that we [...]

A Day At Home

As homeschoolers, we have the freedom to choose what we do with our days (I’ll share my thought on homeschooling and adoption in another post) and sometimes that includes a day spent at home, which can lead us in many different directions. This mix of photos is from various days spent at home sweet home. [...]

Adoption Lifebooks

The Life Book Story: Vera Fahlberg

It is difficult to grow up to be a psychologically-healthy adult without having had to one’s own history. Traditionally, the family is the repository of knowledge about the child. Children separated from their families of origin do not have daily access to this source of information about their personal histories. [...]

Families Formed Through Adoption

Nature & Nurture: A New Look at How Families Work
Early results reveal that children adopted into families fare as well as those born into them.
by Susan Freivalds
When Matt McGue and his wife were preparing for the adoption of their daughters, Sammie and Elise, he was struck by how little solid information was available on adoption [...]

Open adoption

Like most people, when we first started the adoption process we decided what we were and were not comfortable with. It’s very important to continually have these discussions before starting the process. One of the things (there were a few) we weren’t comfortable with was committing to being involved in an open adoption. It’ll be [...]

Adoption Agency Fraud

The following information was compiled through various online sources. It covers ways to protect yourself against potential agency fraud.
“If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”
— Anonymous
Agency Fraud (domestic & international):
Get references and contact them. Get references who are at different stages in the process and who have completed adoptions at different times. This [...]