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Jul
Qualities of a Successful Adoptive Parent
When considering adoption, parents generally take time to conside...
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When considering adoption, parents generally take time to conside...
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Mar
What are Post Adoption/Post Placement Reports?
After your child joins your family through adoption, yo...25
Jan
Four Reasons to Attend “Empowered to Connect”
Whether you’re in the process of adopting, have alrea...11
Jan
Finding Help for Your Adopted Child through EMDR
Imagine that you’ve finally completed your adoption...
In preparation for adopting...30
Nov
Dealing- and Playing- with Sensory Processing Disorder
If your kids are anything like mine they like to run, jump, climb and play HARD. We have sports equipment for nearly every sport (even lacrosse!), bikes, roller blades, pogo sticks, skateboards, hula hoops, a swing se...
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Nov
Imus, Umus and Other Ways to Incorporate Birth Culture
While attending a luau in Hawaii, I heard a fri...26
Sep
Ten Tips for Surviving the “Trenches” in Adoption
After about a year, I feel like my family is finally out of the adoption “trenches.” Sure, there are days when we’ve fallen back in, but for the most part we feel like we’ve made it up and out. There will continue to ...
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Sep
How Snapchat Saved Our Summer
Most of you have probably heard of Snapchat. If not, you’ve been missi...29
Aug
Mantras for Connected Parenting
One thing I’ve learned in parenting is that yelling is not effective. Yelling at my children creates fear and sends them into fight-or-flight mode. However, staying calm and not yelling when you walk into your daughte...
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Aug
Back-to-School Tips for Adoptive Parents
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s I prepare to send my kids back to school, I’m mentally making a...
s I prepare to send my kids back to school, I’m mentally making a...4
Apr
R-E-S-P-E-C-T? Resources for Developing Respect in your Child
My daughter once told a teacher at school...
I am a frequent user of the “Undo” (Ctrl + Z) and “...10
Mar
Say “Yes”, Turn “No” into “Yes” and Teach Your Child to Accept “No”
During the first couple months of becoming an adoptive mom, there were many times I said “yes” to my daughter when I ordinarily wouldn’t have done so. For example, I said yes to: taking a bath in leggings, taking a ba...
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Feb
Splish-Splash! My Kid Won’t Take a Bath!
In our house, bath time can sometimes be a struggle. A few ...
Over the past several years at MLJ A...
This week I was talking with a friend of mine who h...
How does your child’s engine run? I...
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