by GIFT Coach | Mar 19, 2014 | Adoptive Parenting Skills/Tool
Adoption is complicated and unless parents are adoptees, we can never completely understand the experience. Love and positive intentions will carry us far but we must rely on our children to speak the truth of their world. We must set a context where our kids feel...
by GIFT Coach | Mar 13, 2014 | General Discussion, White privilege
Adoptive families–whether they’ve adopted transracially or not–experience being seen as different and sometimes, as “less than” other families. Living as a multicultural family amplifies the obvious differences and the frequency of encountering...
by GIFT Coach | Mar 6, 2014 | Adoptee experience
Adoptive parents frequently hear themselves called heroes for choosing to adopt. While it is intended as a compliment, there is a subtle negative judgment implied: our children are perceived as burdens they’d never have the courage to shoulder. What is the...
by GIFT Coach | Mar 2, 2014 | Adoptee memoir, Adoption books, Adoptive Parenting Skills/Tool, Difficult Discussions
Split at the Root: a Memoir of Love and Identity, packs a riveting story. Against a lush tropical backdrop, a remarkable story of transracial “adoption” unfolds. As an adoption coach and an adoptive parent, I found her story riveting. It kept me up late...
