Recommend Your Reading List

January 3, 2009

Hi,

I am new to this board. We have recently decided to go forward with a sibling group adoption from colombia and are just getting started in the process. We will be first-time parents. Can you recommend books you found helpful, either adoption-specific or parenting in general?

Thanks!

Nancycs

January 3, 2009

I'm still reading this book, and I find it a very good complement to the Hague training class we received:

Adoption Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections.

I would love to hear another suggestions as well :-)

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entropy

January 4, 2009

Attaching in Adoption by Deborah Grey.

Learn all about attachment. Also pay closer attention to writers that will admit that attachment is a two way street. As it might also take awhile for you to attach to them as them to you. This is glossed over so much. But its just as important in my opinion.

emi

January 5, 2009

The Connected Child by Dr. Karyn Purvis, Dr. David Cross

The Spirited Child (not specific to adoption, but it's my favorite parenting book at the moment) [FONT=Arial]by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka[/FONT]

LifeBooks : Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child by Beth O'Malley

I also like the Adoption Toolbox book.

This is not a parenting resource, per say, but I LOVE China Ghosts by Jeff Gammage. It's a father's story of adopting two daughters from China. He has a great perspective that really gets you thinking.

Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? by Donna Jackson Nakazawa (transracial issues)

Melissaliane

January 5, 2009

Thanks everyone for the book suggestions! I think I am going to be adding to my library