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3 Steps To Help With Regret From Fostering Or Adopting
The other day I was talking with a fellow adoptive parent, a fantastic mom, whom our family has know for many years. We were sharing our stories about being on the journey and suddenly the conversatio...
Callum Kindly And The Very Weird Child – 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 Cover of Callum K...
Play Helped Me Through Foster Care
Guest Blog By Elizabeth Sutherland ONCE UPON A TIME… …in a small town tucked away in the Great Smokies, lived a little orphan girl who didn’t seem to have a care in the world. Her c...
Be The R.O.C.K. For Your Child
About the Guest Blogger My name is Melissa, I’m 37 years old and I am adopted. As an adult, I searched out and found my biological parents. I live in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. I work full-ti...
5 Ways Foster Children Are Like Dobby the House Elf – Chapter 2 – Parent Discussion
In Chapter 2 we are introduced to Dobby the house elf. This is Harry’s first encounter with a house elf, and he seems quite perplexed by this strange creature and its odd behaviors and responses...
Animal Power: Calming Adoptive and Foster Kids
Let’s Calm Down With Animals If you haven’t read this blog before, you should know that I was a foster kid but now I’m adopted. I get really stressed and worried about things sometim...
Chapter 14 – Are You Being Realistic? – Parent Discussion
“I’ve decided to call him Norbert,” said Hagrid, looking at the dragon with misty eyes. “He really knows me now, watch. Norbert! Norbert! Where’s Mummy?” “He&...
The Scary Night – Chapter 1 – Kid Discussion
Harry Knows Foster Kids Every foster kid knows the beginning of this story too well. Harry Potter has just lived through a horrible situation that no child should have to live. Sometimes in life bad ...