Complicated Adoption Process. Preparation: Part 1
The most important thing you will do in preparing for the complicated adoption process is to gather and research the most current information... Read More →
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The RAD Child Development Called Reactive Attachment Disorder
For two of my daughters, inconsistency in needs being met and the rotating caregivers that provided for those needs made up the incubator that... Read More →
Girls From Russia are Hard (It’s not Russia, Though)
Of course it has nothing to do with nationality, but that is what Sarah perceived. She was too inexperienced to understand her statement as... Read More →
Orphans and Homes for Them to go Home to
We need to find homes for orphans to go home to. Alright, maybe “orphans” is the wrong word. Heaven knows that word has been brutalized for... Read More →
How I Learned to Cope with Death. It’s Easier than you Think.
I first learned to cope with death as I walked away from a Russian orphanage with my new daughter, shrieking in my arms. Of all the places I... Read More →
Bad Behavior in our Adopted Children; Is There a Trigger?
There almost always seems to be a trigger when my wife and I see bad behavior in our adopted children. When two of them get milk, they turn... Read More →
I Have Lots of Problems About my Life
First I came to Amarica, first I make bad choices. And when I come to Amarica I been mean to my family and also friends. I been in lots... Read More →
Compassion in Court: When Justice Is Served Serves
It wasn’t Emily’s fault that she needed compassion in court. Oh sure, she committed the crimes against members of our family; but it still wasn’t... Read More →
Challenge Limits Instead of Limiting Challenges
We challenge limits instead of limiting challenges in our family. Rippling biceps; six pack abs; toned calves and thighs… yep; that’s how my... Read More →
Orphans: I’m Tired of Hearing it.
Western society was shocked in the mid 1990s when we heard that there were 132 million orphans in the world. As good hearted people took this... Read More →
Empathy is Probably not What you Think it is.
I had always understood empathy to be trying to imagine myself in someone else’s shoes, and then trying to understand how it would feel. I got it... Read More →
Firsts
[This week Emily writes of “Firsts” that happened as she was adopted]. First time I went to restaurant and make me so happy.... Read More →
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