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What Does an Adopted Child’s Birth Certificate Look Like?
Congratulations, you have adopted a child. Once finalization of your child’s adoption takes place you become the child’s legal parent in every way, just as if you had given birth to the child. The...
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Share Your Adoption Journey Problems With Your Adoption Friends
Are you experiencing setbacks or difficulties in your adoption journey? Have you shared your problems with your adoption friends, agencies, or caseworkers? First, sharing your problems can lighten your...
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Adopted Child Sleepwalks
Do you have an adopted child who sleepwalks? Sleepwalkers make life a little more interesting for family and friends. Of course, forgetting to mention that your child is a sleepwalker before a...
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Trauma Thursday: Adopted Traumatized Child and Lying
If you are parenting a foster or adopted child who has been traumatized, you will likely have to deal with lying. Believe it or not, this is true even with the traumatized child who appears to be a...
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Role of Adoption in Various Stages of Adopted Child’s Life
You have probably noticed that my blogs have been gravitating more toward specials needs and less about topics specific to adoption. This is because, at this stage of my adopted child’s life, his...
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Adopted Child Developing Own Motivation for Report Card
Hub and I are both Type A personalities who were straight-A students and overachievers in anything we did – not because of outside influences but because we came out of the box that way. Sure, we...
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Adopted “Only Child’s” Beach Trip with Two Old Geezers ... I Mean, His Mom...
My poor adopted “only child” has not had a rockin’ time this Spring Break. Just the opposite, in fact. I suspect he feels like he went to the beach with two geriatric patients who only looking like his...
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Finding What Your Adopted or Special Needs Child is Good at
Yesterday, my adopted child ran in his first cross-country track meet. He finished ahead of 60% of the participants, which was no small feat considering that most of the children were taller with...
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Adoption Lessons from a Frog
My 12-year-old adopted child caught a frog yesterday. Actually, it looked like a toad to me, but he insists that it is a frog named Phil, so I’ll stick with calling the amphibian a frog.If I had been...
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Adopted Child’s First Week of Overnight Camp
Today, I dropped my 12-year-old adopted child off for his first ever week of overnight (residential) camp. How I feel this evening reminds me of how I felt the first day that I dropped him off at...
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