by gayles | Nov 3, 2021 | Adoptee experience, Adoption Attunement, adoption from foster care, Blogs by Gayle Swift
Every November our country observes National Adoption Awareness Month (NAAM) to raise awareness of the children in foster care who are awaiting adoption because they “are unable to continue living safely with their families” (Adoptuskids.org.) Sadly, many...
by gayles | Oct 14, 2021 | Blogs by Gayle Swift, General Discussion
I’m in the midst of a 30-day session wearing a heart monitor. It is minimally uncomfortable yet singularly dedicated to its purpose. Always operating. Never off duty. Never distracted. It periodically zings an alert or vibrates to catch my attention. Imagine...
by gayles | Sep 27, 2021 | Adoptive family life, Adoptive parenting, General Discussion
Feeling short of time or finding it difficult to concentrate? You can listen to this post. Listening Time: 8:28 While waiting to become a parent, I spent some time ruminating on the way my own parents raised me. After I became a parent the challenges of parenting...
by gayles | Sep 8, 2021 | Adoptive Parenting Skills/Tool, Blogs by Gayle Swift
If you are an adopted parent, you have probably experienced many encounters with the unexpected. For most of us, the first “surprise” was infertility. We expected we would become pregnant fairly easily. But that is not what happened. Instead,...
by gayles | Aug 20, 2021 | Blogs by Gayle Swift
Feeling short of time or finding it difficult to concentrate? You can listen to this post. Listening time: 3:28 Being Cassandra: Sharing an Unwelcome Truth August 20, 2021 I have been an adoptive parent for 35 years. I have learned a great deal in these intervening...
