10 Tips For After Your Older Child Is Home
- Reduce sensory overload
- Create structure and routine
- Assume your child is younger than they are
- Re-parent
- Assume your child has attachment issues
- Give your child chores
- Implement consequences for their actions------More
Answers To Awkward Questions About Your Adopted Kids
How are you going to answer such awkward questions?
Q: Where did you get this dear little one?
Q: Do you also have children of your own?
Q: Are they really brother and sister?
Preparing While You Wait For Adoption Travel
As families collect the mounds of paperwork to prepare for international
adoption, some prospective parents find ways in which to prepare themselves for
parenthood. Besides reading books about parenting, taking a class on infant
CPR, fixing up the child's room, cleaning out the garage and attic, and meeting
other parents through support groups, there are some unexpected ways to better
anticipate the travel abroad by protecting yourself now for exposures that may
occur when you travel. More
The Inner World Of The Adopted Child
Parents, have you ever had such questions
about your adopted child?
"Sometimes we just look at each other and ask what we got ourselves
into?"
"We knew this child would be different from us. But sometimes it seems we
don't know him at all."
"Nothing I do or try seems like enough to
help this child."
"We wonder how much longer we can stay committed to these children."
If you do, you are not alone. Welcome tothe inner world of the adopted child .
Transition from Orphanage to Home
If you are preparing to bring your child home, or have recently arrived home with your child, there are a number of things that are important to understand:
First and foremost, keep in mind that while you have spent months, perhaps years, preparing your minds and hearts to welcome this child into your lives and become a family, your child has had little, if any, preparation for this incredibly huge and significant change in his or her life.Don't be too upset or surprised if your child doesn't react to you the way you expected or hoped. Don't take it personally. It takes time to fall in love. It takes time to become a family - to learn how to interact with each other's personalities, temperaments, etc.