by gayles | Oct 7, 2020 | Adoptee experience, Adoption Attunement, Adoptive Parenting Skills/Tool
Feeling short of time or finding it difficult to concentrate? You can listen to this post. Listen time 7:39 At the risk of sounding like Captain Obvious: our lives have been totally blown off their normal courses. Covid-19 realigned our lives, redefined our social...
by gayles | Jul 1, 2020 | Adoption Attunement, Blogs by Gayle Swift, International Adoption, Strengthening Family Relationships
Feeling short of time or finding it difficult to concentrate? You can listen to this post. Listen time 10:24 It is easy–and naive–to expect that our good intent guarantees a positive result. Even the purest intentions can still yield negative consequences....
by gayles | May 6, 2020 | Adoption Attunement, General Discussion
Feeling short of time or finding it difficult to concentrate? You can listen to this post. As adults, we “know” the world through direct physical experience. It is easy to assume that we all “see” the same thing. Yet nothing could be further...
by gayles | Jan 29, 2020 | Adoption-attunement, Adoptive Parenting Skills/Tool, Blogs by Gayle Swift, Family dynamics, Strengthening Family Relationships
Feeling short of time or finding it difficult to concentrate? You can listen to this post. Read time 3:38 So far this month this blog has examined several priorities for parenting success in 2020. At the risk of being overly obvious, we must consider ourselves and the...
by GIFT Coach | Sep 4, 2019 | Adoptive Parenting Skills/Tool, Blogs by Guests, Empathy, General Discussion, Intentional Parenting, Strengthening Family Relationships, The Adoption Triad
We are privileged this week to have this guest blog written by Lynn Grubb. She is both an adoptee and an adoptive parent. She lives adoption from both sides of the relationship equation! Enjoy, listen, and learn! Lynn Grubb is an Illinois born adoptee, and a 50-year...