Growing Intentional Families Together Blog
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Empathy: Learning to Connect with Intention
Empathy is an essential human skill that enriches relationships, smooths life's bumps, and enhances life's joys....
Together Forever
#adoptiveparenting In recent days, weather dominated the headlines. Freezing temperatures stranded travelers and left...
When Holidays Are Touched by Past Trauma
Holidays bring excitement, a desire to spend time with family and visit friends, and to add to the bank of treasured...
‘Tis the Season for Giving, Receiving and “Returning”
At GIFT Family Services, we constantly look for ways to help families connect and create positive relationships and...
Adoption Is a “We” story, Not a “You” Story.
We adoptive parents are thrilled to have our children in our lives. For most of us, the adoption process...
ABC, Adoption & Me– a Multicolor Picture book for Adoptive Families
What compelled you to write "ABC, Adoption & Me"? Adoption brought great joy to my husband and me. We were...
National Adoption Month–an Adoptee’s Perspective: The importance of biological Connections
In honor of National Adoption Month, we are sharing the insights of adoptees. We invited them to share any thoughts...
Reaching across Your Child’s Walls
It takes great effort to remain calm during a verbal attack launched by an out of control child. The natural...
How Do Parents Live Out the Realities of Open Adoptions?
As adoptive parents observe a warm relationship between their child and his birth parents, complicated emotions may...
Evolving Boundaries in Open Adoptions
Before your child joined your family and you and your child's birth parents chose Open Adoption, it probably seemed...
