Parenting Tips for Adoptive Parents of Adopted Children

Music can be grounding and inspiring during times of doubt or celebratory and uplifting during times of joy. For those experiencing adoption on any

It’s that time of year when Spotify, GoodReads, DuoLingo and various other platforms offer a “year in review” to remind you what you’ve lis

I’m sure we’ve all done it. You see someone you know in the grocery store or church lobby. You haven’t seen each other in a while and you don

Celebrating the holiday season with your family is always an opportunity to try new traditions and activities. After all, the holidays offer a perf

The holiday season is a time for family and friends to come together and celebrate the togetherness with laughter and love. What better way to cele

It’s here: the holiday season. We are somehow in December and I am still trying to figure out where summer went. November begins the cinnamon oil

Is anyone else in full panic!-it’s-almost-Christmas-mode?  *Jumps wildly in the air waving hands* I am! Oh gosh . . . I am. It snuck up on m

We are on the cusp of yet another Thanksgiving that has strict traditional norms that will be enforced with impunity by families across the USA. Th

Thanksgiving is almost here. Right after that, the Christmas season is in full swing. From December 1st until New Year’s, everywhere I look w

Our kids’ adoptions have been finalized for a while now. It feels like it was just yesterday we said hello to teeny people, but the giants are co

Hey there, you—the exhausted one who hasn’t slept for 6 consecutive hours in a month. The parent who just fed the kids chicken nuggets for the

One of my favorite movies of all time is Mean Girls. It’s irreverent and funny and has just enough truth to be compelling and thought-provoking:

I love music. I think that is a medium that so many talented artists have used to carve out thoughts, feelings, and places that invite us to take i

I spent most of my life being described as overly emotional by every report card and every exasperated adult who could not deal with a little girl

Many people who want to adopt don’t consider a teenager, they choose to adopt infants. However, many teenagers in foster care need a forever

Adoption in the media is often shown either as entirely good or entirely bad. I think quite often adoption lands somewhere in between. But if there

I am a book wyrm (like a bookworm, but more like a dragon on her hoard than a bug chewing up paper); and I spend an inordinate amount of time liste

Depression is a misunderstood mental health disorder. The media often gets it wrong. As with many mental health and medical issues, real diagnosis

I have had a lot of time to come to terms with my mental illness. It has been a lifelong battle that I’ve only, in the past ten years, had a spec

It can be easy to compare adoptees and children from foster care to biological children. Children raised by their biological parents have an uninte