Growing Intentional Families Together Blog
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Awareness. Adoption. Accuracy. Affirmation.
Feeling short of time or finding it difficult to concentrate? You can listen to this post. National Adoption Awareness...
911 Parenting: Responding to an Emotional Meltdown
Feeling short of time or finding it difficult to concentrate? You can listen to this blog post... A friend who happens...
Kids Need Families
If you prefer to listen to this blog, click the player that follows. Next month our country will observe National...
Performance Reviews, Progress Reports, and Parenting Goals
Most of us face performance reviews on our jobs. While not a pleasant experience, the periodic assessments can help us...
To Love Our Real Child We Must Release the Child of Our Fantasies
As Intentional Parents. we hold the belief that adoption is not an event but rather a journey. We accept that adoption...
Loss: An Uncomfortable Truth
Learn how the coaches at GIFT Family Services can help you and your family navigate your adoption...
It Takes a Village.
What draws us to assist others in times of crisis? Is it simply the hard knowledge that “There but for the grace of God go I?” Is it empathy? Religious conviction? Or simply fundamental human compassion? Regardless of the why, human beings are drawn to assist others when they are in trouble. We put our collective shoulders to the obstacle & press a collaborative shove.
Adoptive Parenting Perspective: How Being Adopted Informs My Parenting
We are privileged this week to have this guest blog written by Lynn Grubb. She is both an adoptee and an adoptive...
Book It! New Titles to add to Your Family Adoption Library
The coaches at GIFT Family Services are passionate about creating and identifying resources for adoptees and their...
What Do You See? Who Do You See?
Personal growth in people is easily overlooked. Behavioral changes frequently go unnoticed, unacknowledged & unprocessed. People tend not to update their “relationship software.” They tend to presume old patterns will continue unchanged & as immutable as if carved in stone.
