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Help your child sleep through the night while promoting her attachment to you.
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Essential baby care and bonding tips to help your newly adopted child — and yourself — connect and thrive.
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A little information about your child's medical history goes a long way for finding and preventing risks.
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Our children learn from us how to express emotions.
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Imaginative play can bring your preschooler hours of fun — and offer a window into her adoption story.
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Preschoolers are starting to notice racial differences. Adoptive parents have a responsibility to talk about them.
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Even if you've made a scrapbook or lifebook for your child, kids this age like to tell their own stories. Here's how to help.
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Tween adoptees may walk away from their cultural heritage, family outings, and even their family as they try to fit in with peers.
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Your preteen just wants to be cool. But how can he, when he's "different"?
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Can't pry your teen from the computer? The Internet can be a great tool for finding identity and networking with other adopted teens.
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Sometimes, a teen's behavior calls for outside help. What to watch for and how to find the right adoption therapist.
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Adolescence is tough, but don't worry: our adopted kids' experiences will usually fall well within the bounds of typical teen development.
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As foster parents, you open your hearts and home to a child even as you're preparing to reunite her with her birth mother.
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If your child is prone to overeating or hoarding food, help her move past her food insecurity with these tips.
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As foster parents, you open your hearts and home to a child even as you're preparing to reunite her with her birth mother.
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From a woman who finally became an adoptive mother after a decade of trying, here are a few things I wish someone had told me years ago.
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When I announced our adoption plans, I hoped for the same kind of excitement that pregnant women get. After all, the happiness we're expecting is the same.
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Read these 12 essential steps for bottle feeding your adoptive baby, from the type of nipple to knowing when he's had enough.
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Read these 12 essential steps for bottle feeding your adoptive baby, from the type of nipple to knowing when he's had enough.
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When their adoption date was uncertain, our readers took the opportunity to celebrate with their children in tow. Here, they share their experiences.
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On our Facebook page, we asked readers, How did you choose your child's name? Did you have input from his birth family? Or did you keep her original name? Here's what you said:
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People kept taking us, a threesome of foster kids, into their homes. But we never stuck.
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As foster parents, you open your hearts and home to a child even as you're preparing to reunite her with her birth mother.
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I tell my African-American children that they are smart and beautiful because I know that the world may tell them otherwise.
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Nia Vardalos describes her first meeting with the preschooler she adopted from U.S. foster care.
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Two adoptive moms and a birth mother candidly discuss the adoption match, birth siblings, contact agreements, and more.
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I asked my family not to come to the hospital when she was born, then mourned their absence. Enter her birth relatives.
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If breastfeeding had been easy in the past, adoptive breastfeeding couldn't be so different, or less rewarding, could it? More or less.
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Dana E. Johnson, M.D., Ph.D., on introducing new foods and addressing feeding challenges in a newly adopted child.
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Introductions are often fleeting. But then there are those planned meetings that you know will touch you at your core.
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How to assess a newly adopted child's nutritional status and get a malnourished child's growth on track.
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Even if you've made a scrapbook or lifebook for your child, kids this age like to tell their own stories. Here's how to help.
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Even if you've made a scrapbook or lifebook for your child, kids this age like to tell their own stories. Here's how to help.
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How to prepare your child for a new sibling.
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Family members, friends, and other parents can use our adoption experiences to broaden their children’s sphere of understanding.
As your teen's thinking becomes more sophisticated, she'll want to know more about her adoption.
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A legal guide to open adoptions and open-adoption agreements.
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Would it really be possible to fill out my daughter’s hazy memories by typing names into a search engine?
A legal guide to open adoptions and open-adoption agreements.
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My daughter, Rubie, has the kind of life I'd dreamed of for her, and is where she belongs. I only wish I had known that sooner.
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I tell prospective adoptive parents to take a good, hard look at their social circles, their neighborhoods, their churches, their communities and think about how those places and spaces will look and feel to their child. I ask them what they’ll say when their kids hear slurs and taunts from bullies, and how they will answer tough questions about the persistence of racism and a playing field that is far from level.
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I tell prospective adoptive parents to take a good, hard look at their social circles, their neighborhoods, their churches, their communities and think about how those places and spaces will look and feel to their child. I ask them what they’ll say when their kids hear slurs and taunts from bullies, and how they will answer tough questions about the persistence of racism and a playing field that is far from level.
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How we can help our children feel good about who they are — and where they’re from.
My sons have a deep and enduring bond. So why do people need to know if they're real brothers?
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Sleep problems are very common in kids who joined their families through adoption. Adoption medicine specialist Sarah Springer, M.D., FAAP, will explain sleep strategies and answer your questions in a live webinar on 3/24/15.
Parenting children with different DNA opened up new worlds for me. Loving who they are means parenting their DNA and not my own agenda.
Inclusive assignments help your grade-schooler, as well as her classmates, learn about their lives and the world around them.
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Your preteen just wants to be cool. But how can he, when he's "different"?
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How one mother learns to be the role model her adoptive daughter needs–with her daughter's help, of course.
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When this big, multicultural family gets together for Thanksgiving, the table is laden with more than turkey and gravy.
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