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Building Connections, Making Memories: Campfires, S’mores & Good Times
Be intentional about creating a memorable chapter in your family’s history. During this upcoming Labor Day weekend, why not plan some family memory-making activity? Can’t get away? Why not build a campfire in the backyard? Or, have a “camp out” in the house complete with a picnic meal and “tent.” Go on a night hike. Play flashlight tag. Notice the stars while simply enjoying being together.
Attunement Ensures It Is Safe to Love
How might your life change if your relationships were attuned? What would be the first step and how soon will you take it? How can we build trust in our families? With our partners? How can we model a willingness to be vulnerable as well as the careful way we respond to such overtures to connection as the sacred trust they actually represent. Trust, connection and attunement are fragile, take time to build & are also easily damaged–especially that specialized level of Adoption-attunement which understands the complexity of factors that adoption imposes on families built by adoption.
Navigating the School Year with Intention
Schools have already reopened in my community which reminds me of the need for intentionality in how we guide our...
Confidence, Competence, Courage & Resilience: Building Success
Parenting has an evolutionary endpoint: at some point, our children will leave the family nest and fly out into the...
Everybody Is A Critic
We're all familiar with the old saying, "Everybody is a critic." Feedback occurs regularly in life. People hand it out...
Some Questions Don’t Deserve Answers
All families need healthy boundaries, especially adoptive families because we encounter rude incursions into our...
Fireflies, S’mores and Star-filled Skies: Making Family Memories
As adherents of Adoption Attunement, we believe that having fun together as a family is an integral factor in building...
The Emotional Connection between Speaking and Listening
Even without a caption, we can infer that the dad in this photo clearly wants his son to listen. This graphic explodes...
Notice and Narrate Instead of Offering Praise
Attention is the currency of human connection. We all yearn to be noticed, to be seen for our authentic selves. It's...
Admitting Hard Realities and Holding Difficult Conversations
Those of us touched by adoption understand what it is like to feel "othered" or different. Many of us have adopted...
