Reactive Attachment Disorder Measuring Success
Because some of our children have Reactive Attachment Disorder measuring success is hard to do and that leaves us, as parents, frustrated. My wife sprang a leak. Water ran from both eyes, down…
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The Real Reason for a Decline in Adoptions
As Seen on Adoption.net Recently, my Google alerts for “adoption” and “international adoption” went crazy. It seemed that every news outlet in the U.S. had picked up on the story. International adoptions…
How to Fix Your Child With a Magic Wand
My oldest daughter hadn’t been home from Russia for a month before we noticed her pointing pencils or other objects at us while contorting her eyes and face. Emily had come from…
Get Close Enough to Help People with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Psychologists call them triggers. They could be events, objects, sensory stimulations or even words. When a person who has experienced severe trauma is confronted with anything that they have psychologically associated with…
The Adoption System Isn’t Fair
As Seen in Huffington Post I can’t stand the waiting! I don’t know if I can handle another failed referral. What if they change their minds? What if I don’t get picked?…
Reactive Attachment Disorder I Need Your Help withThree Things
Because my daughter has Reactive Attachment Disorder I need your help with three things. Some people think that RAD means my daughter can’t emotionally attach to others. It doesn’t. Attachment is like…
Playing to Your Strengths - The First Step in Adoption
Were you raised in a multi-ethnic family or neighborhood? Do you have lots of friends and family who would crush people that made an issue out of race? Maybe you had a…
Troubled Child Adoption
Amy Simmons with six of her nine children As Seen on Adoption.net Troubled child adoption is about loving enough to accept not being trusted. I learned that by watching my wife’s example.…
Adopting a Child with Down Syndrome: Winning in Vegas
Our family was so wrong. We thought that adopting a child with Down syndrome would be about what we could do for him. The error of thinking like that was one of the first of…
The Truth at the Bottom of the Castle
I think every school aged girl who gets adopted feels at least a little bit like a princess. That was certainly true for my daughters. Sarah, who was five-and-a-half when she came…
Hyphen(-)less Adoption
As Seen in the Huffington Post Three cheers for the families of Jessica Long! I hope that just as I, you watched and shed a few tears over the story of Jessica…
A Season to say YES to Orphan Care
As Seen on Orphan Care Alliance A Season for Saying Yes to Orphan Care It’s my personal belief that orphan care should always be at the top of our list. After all,…