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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...
Talk about the Hard Stuff Because They Are Thinking about It Already
In our two previous blogs, we focused on the role of the family adoption library as a way to facilitate important yet...
Five Reasons Your Family Adoption Library Can’t Handle Everything.
As Intentional parents, we understand the importance of having a well-stocked family adoption library. In last week’s...
Six Top Reasons You Want an Adoption-attuned Family Library
Adoption deeply influences a family. IT MATTERS! Families must talk about it. If we resist or avoid conversations...
