by gayles | Feb 2, 2022 | Blogs by Gayle Swift, General Discussion
At the heart of every conversation is a desire to connect with another person. It involves a speaker and a listener. Each is an essential component. Communication is an interactive loop of listening and speaking. Unlike an inhaled breath that enters our body intact,...
by gayles | Jan 5, 2022 | Blogs by Gayle Swift, General Discussion, parenting dream
Audio Player https://giftfamilyservices.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/If-Your-Parenting-Dream-Comes-True.mp3.mp3 00:00 00:00 00:00 Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. Consider this question: If Your...
by gayles | Sep 27, 2021 | Adoptive family life, Adoptive parenting, General Discussion
Feeling short of time or finding it difficult to concentrate? You can listen to this post. Listening Time: 8:28 While waiting to become a parent, I spent some time ruminating on the way my own parents raised me. After I became a parent the challenges of parenting...
by gayles | Sep 8, 2021 | Adoptive Parenting Skills/Tool, Blogs by Gayle Swift
If you are an adopted parent, you have probably experienced many encounters with the unexpected. For most of us, the first “surprise” was infertility. We expected we would become pregnant fairly easily. But that is not what happened. Instead,...
by gayles | Aug 4, 2021 | Adoption-attunement, Blogs by Gayle Swift, Intentional Parenting, school, Strengthening Family Relationships
Feeling short of time or finding it difficult to concentrate? You can listen to this post. Listening time: 6:44 In the beginning, we dream of pregnancy and then discover it is unachievable. That dream ends. Still, we continue to dream and choose to focus on our core...
