by Rayna Neises | Oct 17, 2023
Adoption Attuned...
by gayles | Jun 30, 2021 | Adoption Attunement, Adoptive Parenting Skills/Tool, Blogs by Gayle Swift, Family dynamics
Feeling short of time or finding it difficult to concentrate? You can listen to this post. Listen time 5:23 This month we celebrate the “birthday” and independence of the United States. Many folks observe the Fourth of July as an extended family. Holidays become...
by gayles | Dec 2, 2020 | Adoption-attunement, Adoptive Parenting Skills/Tool, Blogs by Gayle Swift, General Discussion
Feeling short of time or finding it difficult to concentrate? You can listen to this post. Listening time: 6:21 November features National Adoption Awareness Month (#NAAM). One thing 2020 has taught us: truly valuable things in life have no price tag. The things that...
by Gayle Swift | Aug 22, 2018 | Adoption-attunement, Adoptive Parenting Skills/Tool, Blogs by Gayle Swift, General Discussion
Readers of this blog know that I care for my three-year-old grandson three days a week. This is both a privilege and a joy. Trained as a teacher and honed by adoptive parenthood, I am also fascinated at the difference between parenting children with trauma histories...
by Gayle Swift | May 9, 2018 | Blogs by Gayle Swift, General Discussion
Adoption deeply influences a family. IT MATTERS! Families must talk about it. If we resist or avoid conversations about adoption, our children will falsely infer that their adoption is a shameful secret.This may lead them to have conflicted emotions, identity...