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Tag: Parenting

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22February
2022

Midpoint of the Adoptive Parenting Feedback Loop

February 22, 2022
Stephanie Krug
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You know the saying “hindsight is 20/20”. We’ve all heard it before, but this exercise for adoptive parents, takes the saying to a whole different level. Writer, author, and adoptive parent, Lori Holden, revisits a letter she wrote to her adoptive children answering the following questions:

Imagine your child as an adult describing their open adoption experience. What do you hope they will be able to say about you? How did you view their other parents? In what ways did you support their relationship with them?

Read more to learn how this practice can help all adoptive parents outline what their adoption goal are and then see how well they are aligned in years to come. In writing the letter, parents not only practice seeing through their children’s eyes, but they also clarify what they want of their own parenting in the long run. 

Read more here: Cringey! Midpoint of the Adoptive Parenting Feedback Loop

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26January
2022

How to be a Therapeutic Parent

January 26, 2022
Stephanie Krug
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As adoptive, foster, or even biological parents, we all tend to wonder how we could be doing better.

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16June
2021

Foster Care Has Changed How We Parent

June 16, 2021
Stephanie Krug
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You can’t enter the world of foster care and not be changed by it.

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24March
2017

Beautiful Wounds by Colleen Briggs

March 24, 2017
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He studied my face, streaked with happy tears. His little eyebrows furrowed in confusion. Then he leaned on my shoulder and melted into my embrace. For days after, if he was awake, he was in my arms.

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