Adopted Children Feel Secure Loving More, Not Less
It has been said that love is the answer no matter the question. Right or wrong, I can tell you this: In our family, adopted children feel secure... Read More →
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Emily’s Introduction
I love my family because family important to me and also my family care about me and they give me life. Read More →
Reactive Attachment Disorder Therapy: Five Signs That Your Child has the Wrong Therapist
You-are-not-crazy. You weren’t crazy before you brought this child into your home. In fact, before you did that no one ever thought you... Read More →
Better off Without International Adoption? Not Hardly.
Of course there are days when I am ashamed of some of the people on my side of the inter-country adoption fence. Some of the black eyes the... Read More →
When Mothers’ Day is Hard for Children
My adopted daughters struggle with all of the conflicting feelings that come with a Mothers’ Day fraught with memories of a birth mother who... Read More →
Reactive Attachment Disorder Diagnosis for Your Child
Reactive Attachment Disorder diagnosis isn’t like Down syndrome or Muscular Dystrophy in that the condition (as others that are mental rather... Read More →
Reactive Attachment Disorder World: Life is Never Boring
Several of my children live in Reactive Attachment Disorder World. We’re trying to teach them how to live in their new world, but I’m... Read More →
To Sing Frogs Chapter 16b
The children were in the playroom sitting on the floor and singing a song while doing hand gestures. I was numb. Katya rushed to us for hugs and... Read More →
To Sing Frogs Chapter 16a
Chapter 16 Trust Us For Amy it was Kirrill. For me, leaving Katya would tear out my heart. Of course Kirrill had a cold. He was in a hospital... Read More →
How to Soothe our Pain When we Can’t Help who we Want to Help
Marina was seven and Jula was five, like my daughter-to-be. I don’t know how old Jenya, Maksím, André, Dasha, Ksenya and Natasha were, but it... Read More →
A Very Simple Explanation of Reactive Attachment Disorder
Emily was fifteen when she left her Russian orphanage to join our family and her biological younger sisters. (We had adopted them a... Read More →
To Sing Frogs Chapter 15d
“Five hundred.” “How can I help you if you don’t tell me the truth?” Tatiana looked helplessly at Stass. “Six hundred.” “Dr. Tatiana, you are a... Read More →
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