Growing Intentional Families Together Blog
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Boundaries Can Cut Both Ways: Shutting You Out & Shutting Me In
This is GIFT's second blog post to explore the role of boundaries in family life. In discovering how the world works,...
Guest Blogger: Christina White
Our guest blogger is Christina White. Christina is a survivor of a traumatic childhood in which she was subjected to...
Differences and Talents
I was speaking with an adoptee in his late twenties. He has a healthy relationship with his adoptive parents. Since...
Coping with Rejection and Anger
Recently I shared a conversation with an adult who was adopted as a newborn. She described the soup of emotions that...
Intentional Families
Here at GIFT Family Services, we speak about creating "intentional" adoptive or foster families. One important aspect...
I Try to Remember
Being a parent is a huge undertaking. Dah! "Tell me something I don't know!" is perhaps what you are thinking! And,...
Safe Touch
Weaving family relationships with a child who has experienced trauma requires a well-stocked parenting toolbox. Unlike...
Our Young Adult Daughter Returns to Her Birth Family
Not long ago, I returned from work to find my soon-to-be 20 year-old daughter frantically washing her clothes. Just...
Gremlins
As an adult, a nasty little gremlin occasionally lurks in my mind's ear. Usually, I can activate my mute button and...
“I Hate You! I Wish You Weren’t My Mom/Dad!”
It's been more than 13 years ago now since I attended a seminar on adoption as my husband and I were anxiously...
