Raising Adopted Children Revised Edition

Author : Lois Ruskai Melina
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062014374
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raising Adopted Children, Revised Edition written by Lois Ruskai Melina and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this completely revised and updated edition of Raising Adopted Children, Lois Melina, editor of Adopted Child newsletter and the mother of two children by adoption, draws on the latest research in psychology, sociology, and medicine to guide parents through all stages of their child's development. Melina addresses the pressing adoption issues of today, such as open adoption, international adoption, and transracial adoption, and answers parents' most frequently asked questions, such as: How will my child "bond" or form attachments to me? When and how should I tell my child that he was adopted? What should schools be told about my child? Will adoption make adolescent upheavals more complicated? Up-to-date, sensitive, and clear, Raising Adopted Children is the definitive resource for all adoptive parents and concerned professionals.

Author : Patricia Irwin Johnston
Publisher : Perspectives Press (IN)
ISBN 13 : 9780944934340
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adopting written by Patricia Irwin Johnston and published by Perspectives Press (IN). This book was released on 2008-01 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advance readers of Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families offer these comments (and more, see page 1) about this new book by the author of Taking Charge of Infertility, Adopting after Infertility, Launching a Baby's Adoption and Adoption Is a Family Affair! Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families is a "must-read" for anyone considering adoption. With compassion and candor, it helps sort out the emotional, relational and practical aspects of the journey to family-building through adoption. Pat's warm and direct style gives readers the courage to face the losses they have experienced so they can continue exploring adoption as a means to parenthood. Specifically, readers will be empowered to: Regain a sense of control over their lives, Decide whether they are honestly open to the idea of adoption, Understand the central issues of attachment and adoptive family life, Feel confident in their decision to pursue-or not-adoption as a viable option, Make informed decisions about the details of the adoption process, Embrace their decision to adopt with practical support and information, Navigate the first few months after placement with realistic expectations and practical information. Book jacket.

Author : Holly Van Gulden
Publisher : Crossroad Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780824513689
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Real Parents, Real Children written by Holly Van Gulden and published by Crossroad Publishing Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading authority on adoption and an award-winning writer bring wisdom and clarity to situations important to all adoptive parents. Real Parents, Real Children goes beyond the question of when to tell children they are adopted with practical advice for parents on how to talk with their children about adoption - not just once but throughout childhood, adolescence, and into young adulthood - and how to help them through the rougher points of growing up adopted. Authors Holly van Gulden and Lisa Bartels-Rabb offer insight into how adopted children at each age commonly think and feel about being adopted. They also explain how and why adopted children grieve for their birth parents and suggest ways adoptive parents can help them come to a healthy resolution of this grief. For prospective parents, the authors discuss ways to prepare themselves and the child they are about to adopt for the new family union. Throughout, the special concerns and challenges of interracial, international, and older-child adoptions are also addressed. Though written with parents in mind, Real Parents, Real Children provides the clinical information that professional therapists, counselors, and placement workers must have if they are to truly be of help to adoptive families at every stage of their lives. Real Parents, Real Children fills a real gap in adoption literature and offers confidence and assurance as well as sought-after answers to lifelong question.

Author : Sherrie Eldridge
Publisher : Delta
ISBN 13 : 0307570819
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew written by Sherrie Eldridge and published by Delta. This book was released on 2009-10-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Birthdays may be difficult for me." "I want you to take the initiative in opening conversations about my birth family." "When I act out my fears in obnoxious ways, please hang in there with me." "I am afraid you will abandon me." The voices of adopted children are poignant, questioning. And they tell a familiar story of loss, fear, and hope. This extraordinary book, written by a woman who was adopted herself, gives voice to children's unspoken concerns, and shows adoptive parents how to free their kids from feelings of fear, abandonment, and shame. With warmth and candor, Sherrie Eldridge reveals the twenty complex emotional issues you must understand to nurture the child you love--that he must grieve his loss now if he is to receive love fully in the future--that she needs honest information about her birth family no matter how painful the details may be--and that although he may choose to search for his birth family, he will always rely on you to be his parents. Filled with powerful insights from children, parents, and experts in the field, plus practical strategies and case histories that will ring true for every adoptive family, Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew is an invaluable guide to the complex emotions that take up residence within the heart of the adopted child--and within the adoptive home.

Author : Susan TeBos
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310416493
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Before You Were Mine written by Susan TeBos and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an adoptive mother and an adoptee daughter, Before You Were Mine offers a unique Christian perspective on creating a Lifebook that commemorates your child’s birth story. Complete with worksheets and advice from adoptive families, you’ll find that remembering and celebrating your child’s history can be fun, rewarding, and even redemptive.You’ll discover how to ucover and organize details of their birth story, make the story both truthful and positive, and use the Lifebook to trace God’s faithfulness.This powerful concept takes the guesswork out of how and when you’ll talk about your adopted child’s beginnings—and offers him or her a lasting memento that helps them overcome uncertainty and fear to rest in Christ’s unconditional love.How will you embrace your child’s birth story as part of God’s plan?Before You Were Mine will help you relax and rejoice in the beautiful story God is writing for your child.

Author : Lois R. Melina
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780060550042
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raising Adopted Children written by Lois R. Melina and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1986 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it debuted in 1986, Raising Adopted Children was the first book to look at the issues faced by adoptive families after a child comes home. Now, in this illuminating new edition, author Lois Ruskai Melina, mother of two children by adoption--frequently referred to as the "Dr. Spock for adoptive parents"--addresses the changes that have affected adoption over the past ten years and also offers her own ever-evolving wealth of knowledge. Drawing on research in child development, psychology, sociology, and medicine, readers will discover the facts about open adoption, prenatal drug exposure, and international and transracial adoptions, as well as the answers to such critical questions as: When and how should you tell your child that he or she is adopted? How do children bond or form attachments to their adoptive parents? Thought-provoking, informative, and helpful, this up-to-the-minute handbook is a must-have for every adoptive parent and parent-to-be. It is required reading at many adoption agencies.

Author : Gregory Keck
Publisher : Tyndale House
ISBN 13 : 1617472506
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parenting Adopted Adolescents written by Gregory Keck and published by Tyndale House. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his newest release, Dr. Gregory C. Keck offers new insights and parenting strategies relative to adolescents, especially adopted adolescents. Parents will find humor and relief as they realize their role in their child’s journey in the adoption process.

Author : Patricia Irwin Johnston
Publisher : Perspectives Press (IN)
ISBN 13 : 9780944934104
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adopting After Infertility written by Patricia Irwin Johnston and published by Perspectives Press (IN). This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patty Cogen
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 145876883X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child written by Patty Cogen and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-05-14 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child guides adoptive parents in promoting a child's emotional and social adjustment, from the family's first hours together through the teen years. It explains how to help an adopted child cope with the ''Big Change,'' bond with new parents, become part of a family, and develop a positive self-image that incorporates both American identity and ethnicity origins. Parents waiting to meet their adoptive children will appreciate Cogen's advice about preparing for the trip and handling the first meeting. The author's main focus, though, is the child's adaptation over the next months and years. Cogen explains how to deal with the child's ''mixed maturities''; how (and why) to tell the child's story from the child's point of view; how to handle sleep problems and resistance to household rules; and how to encourage eye contact and ease transitions and separations. The reassuring narrative tone and the breadth and depth of information make this the most substantive and accessible book available and an indispensable resource for parents who adopt, professionals who advise adoptive parents, and teachers of adoptive children

Author : Cheri Register
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Good Intentions written by Cheri Register and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Good Intentions is a book of essays about the joys and risks of raising children adopted internationally. Cheri Register examines ten pitfalls that well-meaning parents like herself can easily slip into: -- Wiping Away Our Children's Past -- Hovering Over Our Troubled Children -- Holding the Lid on Sorrow and Anger -- Parenting on the Defensive -- Believing Race Doesn't Matter -- Keeping Our Children Exotic -- Raising Our Children in Isolation -- Judging Our Country Superior -- Believing Adoption Saves Souls -- Appropriating Our Children's Heritage Each essay opens with an exaggerated version of something an adoptive parent might say, to prompt a fresh, intense look at practices so familiar they are seldom questioned, even though they may not serve the children's and the family's best interests. Register urges readers to bring their own experiences to bear in a candid conversation about internationally adoptive family life.