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3 Fun Activities to Discover More About Your Foster or Adoptive Family
Activities for the Whole Family What Is Your Family Good At? People inside a family want to help each other succeed. They stick together. No matter if you’re in a foster family, adoptive family ...
Kit Kitten And The Topsy-Turvy Feelings
Grade: Transfiguring Adoption awarded this book 5 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 Kit Kitt...
Spring Cleaning- Adoptee style
It’s a dark and stormy afternoon here in central Illinois today, and after a few delicious days of beautiful spring weather, I am feeling antsy about being stuck inside. This would be a great time to ...
The Drleck
Note to Parents: Many kids who have gone through the foster care system or who were adopted have had to give up some of their childhoodto survive. Thus, precious time to pretend and enjoy the m...
Austin, Lost in America
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 Austin, ...
4 Things We Learned Vacationing with Foster and Adoptive Children
Darren and I love to travel, and as prospective parents, we dreamed of sharing adventures with our children. So imagine our dismay when our first 6-hour drive as a family ended in us arriving at our d...
An Artrageous Way to Give Kids a Voice: Interview with Nathan Heck
Interview with Nathan Heck of Artrageous With Nate Foster and Adoptive Children Without a Voice What the general public and new foster or adoptive parents might not realize is that many children who w...
Foster/Adoptive Grandparent Tips For Easter
Family Living Far Apart None of our grandchildren live near us. Therefore we are not always able to spend Easter with them. When we do, we have a traditional Easter egg hunt. Often after the grandchil...
Adoption Is For Always
From the Cover of Adoption Is for Always by Linda Walvoord Girard: Celia is a young girl whose parents have always spoken to her about how she was adopted, but she hasn’t fully understood what t...