"Why didn't your real mom want you?"
"They're not real brothers, are they?"
These types of questions can leave both adoptive children and parents feeling hurt, defensive, insecure, and even angry. Christine Mitchell's new guide, Adoption Awareness: Handling Awkward Adoption Questions and Comments, helps adoptive families respond to questions and comments respectfully, without necessarily sharing private information or personal feelings. When adoptive families have the tools to discuss adoption, they feel more confident handling insensitive questions and remarks.
~ A Tapestry Interview with the author HERE
~ a Tapestry eBooklet Exclusive by Christine Mitchell HERE
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LIFEBOOKS: THE ORIGINAL FOSTER CARE TOOL GOES INTERNATIONAL...
Lifebooks were originally designed for children transitioning through domestic foster care. The books helped to document a child's history, provide a sense of identity and self-worth, and record memories of the families the child was part of while 'in the system'. Lifebooks also addressed an adoptee's feelings, and inspired opportunities for adult-child discussion. While still very much in use in foster care, international adoptive families have also recognized the benefits of this tool for their children with little-to-no records of early childhood, and have created lifebooks to capture general information and to introduce difficult adoption material.
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