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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...
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...
4 Steps For Dealing With Anxiety Episodes
Guest Blog by “A Foster Dad” The Day Starts It’s 7:25am on a school day and the transport worker scheduled to pickup David (fictional name used) the 12 year old boy currently in our ...
The Boy Who Cried Bigfoot
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 The Boy ...
If Contact With Birth Family Is NOT Possible: An Adoptee’s Thoughts
Thank you to everyone who joined our panel discussion tonight (4/15/16) on Birth Family Relationships After Adoption. Your questions were well thought out and this is a very important topic to discuss...