It's challenging to parent two girls who adore each other when the older one gets torn apart with jealousy over every little thing. It's hard to make her understand that she only punishes herself in the process.
It's challenging to parent two girls who adore each other when the older one gets torn apart with jealousy over every little thing. It's hard to make her understand that she only punishes herself in the process.
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Relinquishing Brandon to the nurses for his surgery was traumatic. In that instant I was overwhelmed with sorrow and sadness for the twins' birthmother.
Come to find out all the sleeping problems we were having were not related to teething... in fact the chipmunk was not feeling well at all!
My wife read my post about my Wednesday morning and lets just say that she came up with a few reality checks about the post…
No, I didn’t do anything to end up in the dog house (or maybe last night I did). It’s actually quite funny. Here is the minute-by-minute analysis of how last night and into this morning went. I wish I had John Madden here to help me realize where I went wrong.
There are many lessons that a father can teach a son, to teach him to listen to his wife is one that should never go untouched.
Through the years, my reading and research has shown me how grief can take many forms in an adopted child.
Brandon's grieving had been going on about four months, and I was getting worried.
Brandon displayed his courage by giving voice to all of the fear, sadness and grief he felt about being adopted.
If I had only adopted my son Jaik, I could not have blogged about my experiences with him for very long. He was the “silent opposite” of his twin brother when it came to verbalizing, acting out, or dealing with any relinquishment or adoption issues he might have.
But Rather a Lifelong Experience.
People are always surprised that my children had deep and profound
feelings about their relinquishment because they all arrived so young at
five months old.
I dive into the idea of only having one child and if it is considered selfish or not.
The first step in my process to teach the Kid to use technology in moderation is a success.
In this post I’m going to put my discussion about adoptee grief in the context of six basic emotions that I introduced in another blog post called “Emotional Literacy.”
I’m going to come back to this topic because it is so
important that all parents — including adoptive parents — to understand
their own emotions around this issue.
Each year, an estimated 71,000 children are treated in emergency rooms for accidental medication poisonings. Medical experts say that many parents unintentionally goof when giving kids medicine.