foster care
6 Ways to Make a Home Welcoming for Foster and Adoptive Children
We recently stayed at a hotel where we first could find no place to park. After parking far away, Darren checked us in and asked what there was to do around the hotel. The individual said that ...
Loss and Acceptance in Adoption
Guest Blog by Lynn Sollitto ALL adoption begins with loss. That is how the instructor started the workshop* my husband and I attended a month ago. The class was called Talking About the Hard Stuff. Th...
Forever Fingerprints: An Amazing Discovery For Adopted Children – Book Review
Grade: Transfiguring Adoption awarded this book 4 Hoots out of 5 based on how useful it will be for a foster/adoptive family. [Learn more about our Hoot grading system here] From the Forever Fingerpri...
No Ordinary Storm
Guest Blog by Elizabeth Sutherland Seeing Through Life’s Storms APRIL showers bring MAY flowers is a phrase we all certainly know! It’s an expression that I’ve come to live by, but...
Little Meerkat’s Big Panic
Grade: Transfiguring Adoption awarded this book 4 Hoots out of 5 based on how useful it will be for a foster/adoptive family. [Learn more about our Hoot grading system here] From the Cover of Little M...
Damaged
From the Cover of Damaged: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Forgotten Child by Cathy Glass: “Cathy Glass had fostered fifty children over twenty years but none of them had been as disturbed as ...
April Showers, May Flowers, and My Addiction
But First… A Joke Everyone has heard the old saying, “April showers brings May flowers”. But what do May flowers bring? Give up? Pilgrims. Mayflowers bring pilgrims! Get it? Ha! Ok. I apologize ...
Alex And The Scary Things
From the Cover of Alex And The Scary Things: A Story to Help Children Who Have Experienced Something Scary by Melissa Moses: “Alex is an alligator who has experienced ‘scary’ things....
Dr. Purvis, Thank You for Using Your Words
A real life superhero died April 12, 2016. Dr. Karyn Purvis changed the lives and homes of orphans and foster and adopted children around the world and the lives of their caregivers. In our home, we l...