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Jean MacLeod's
adoption toolbox
resources

ADOPTION  BLOGS
(Adult Adoptees &
Adoptive Parents)

Adoption Toolbox

Harlow's Monkey

Heart, Mind and Seoul
favorite links to experience and expertise...
WHO'S GOT YOUR BACK?

Where can you go for advice when
your adoption-parenting journey
veers into challenging territory?
The "we've-got-your-back"
resources listed here offer parents
information gleaned from adult
adoptees, from parent peers and
from adoption professionals.
Of course,
the actual, practical application of
new parenting info is always
tougher in real-life, but your
parent-prep will at least arm you
with behavior response options.
It may occasionally even place you
in the hallowed parent
position of being
one step ahead of your children
(hey, it could happen!)





Becoming a clued-in, hands-on parent
who can address the extra emotional
and / or behavioral layers that our
adopted children may sometimes
present, gives us a strength-base to
return to when the going becomes
more complicated
(think tween and teen years!).

Much of our positive, proactive
adoption parenting is accomplished by
making a conscious, daily effort to:

1) FEARLESSLY utilize honest, open   
parent-child communication

2) DISCOVER the child’s point of view
and reality - the actual basis for her
behaviors. What fuels her reactions?

3) VALIDATE the child's feelings and
empathize with her experience

4) SEEK HELP when you are in
over your head!

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for more...
SEEKING HELP

Selecting and Working With an Adoption Therapist

HANDOUT Beginning Attachment Therapy:
A Parent's Guide to Asking Questions

Directions Not Included:
Seeking Therapy for an Adopted Child

ATTACh

At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude
of those who have lighted the flame within us.

~  Albert Schweitzer
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