Patience Within Effective Families: Trends not Steps
We learned that patience within effective families is different for every individual person and every individual family. We learned more,... Read More →
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Making Home Feel Like Home: Family, Happiness and Love in Spite of Challenges
The outside of our current home is not nearly as impressive as the feelings were inside the most humble place our family has ever lived. Neither... Read More →
Teaching Kids Responsibility: Parenting Teens
My grandpa thought teaching kids responsibility was easy. In his day and circumstances the resources to accomplish that feat were certainly more... 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 →
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 →
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 →
Russian Orphans: The Moisieva Koshkina Family
Recently we changed things in this document to correct erroneous information on the age of our daughters’ biological sibling, Vitaly (or... Read More →
Children Available for Adoption: Behind Magic Doors
There are children available for adoption. They probably aren’t where you’re looking, unless you happen to be looking behind magic... Read More →
Seven Awesome Life Lessons my son With Down Syndrome Taught me
As Seen in Huffington Post Amy and I had three biological sons when we adopted a one-month-old little boy with Down syndrome and started... Read More →
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