parenting
Make Easter Chicks With Your Foster Or Adoptive Child
For almost every holiday dinner deviled eggs find their way to our family’s table. It is one of our oldest grandson’s favorite foods and is almost always requested by him. And, of course, Easter is a ...
Horton Hatches the Egg
Grade: Transfiguring Adoption awarded this book 3 Hoots out of 5 based on how useful it will be for a foster/adoptive family. [Learn more about our Hoot grading system here] Horton Hatches the Egg by ...
A Letter to My Pre-Adoptive Self
An Emotional Journey This spring I am taking part in a book study of A Place I Didn’t Belong: Hope for Adoptive Moms by Paula Freeman. I am admittedly so far behind the study schedule. I was doi...
Foster Youth Publication – Represent Magazine: Interview with Editor, Virginia Vitzthum
Publication for Foster Youth by Foster Youth Transfiguring Adoption is always on the lookout for new and useful tools for foster and adoptive parents. As parents, we are looking for tools that will he...
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...
The Whole-Brain Child
From the Cover of The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., and Tina Payne Bryson, PH.D.: “In this pioneering, p...
Let’s Talk About It: Adoption
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 Let̵...
Professional Play
A Guest Blog By Lynn Sollitto “Wow, that’s a great idea, Payten! You’re covering up the dolly – she’ll be nice and warm. You’re a good mommy.” “You’re doing such a nice job staying in the lines and I ...
Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born
From the Cover of Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born by Jamie Lee Curtis: Tell me again about the night I was born… Tell me again how you would adopt me and be my parents. ..Tell me again ...