Quiet Alertness
Lisa’s list of the 7 Baby Bs may be poignant for adoptive parents to read – it certainly was for me. There is so much…
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Quiet Alertness
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Bonding with Baby
Bonding with Baby
“When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.”– Toni Morrison…
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Relativity
Relativity
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”…
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Birth Stories
Birth Stories
Like most adoptive parents, I have no birth story to share with my daughter. I wasn’t there. As a poor substitute I thought maybe I…
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5-Minute Courage Workout: Playing with Fire
5-Minute Courage Workout: Playing with Fire
Why a 5-Minute Courage Workout on Playing with Fire? Cavemen and women needed it to survive: our kids need to know about fire so they…
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Story Time
Story Time
I recognize that my lifestyle is very unlike others’. I know that by working at home, and with just one kid in school in a…
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Sharing Family Stories
Sharing Family Stories
There is a big difference between my family and my husband’s family. My family relies on humor as the glue to hold us all together—the…
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What is Spiritual Courage?
What is Spiritual Courage?
Compiled and written by Lisa and Jennifer: This will be the sixth in the “Six Types of Courage” that we will explore in-depth. We hope you’ve already had the chance…
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Why Attachment is so Important in Learning Courage
Why Attachment is so Important in Learning Courage
As a mom to newborn E. (my now 13 year-old son), I was ripe with the maternal love hormones prolactin and oxytocin. It’s one of…
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Why Attachment is so Important in Learning Courage
Why Attachment is so Important in Learning Courage
As a mom to newborn E. (my now 13 year-old son), I was ripe with the maternal love hormones prolactin and oxytocin. It’s one of…
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