transfiguring adoption
5 Questions To Ask Before/After A Disruption: Did We Do All We Could?
My son got into the car on one of the last days of school with his yearbook in hand. He commented that [our foster child I called “Little Bit”] was in the yearbook. I forgot. Inward...
4 Tips To Help Foster and Adoptive Children with Boundaries
When a child is born, caregivers determine where the child will go. The child’s domain usually consists of a crib, the arms of caregivers and loved ones, or a place they are buckled into ...
Chris Rankin And The Elf Squad
50% of foster/adoptive parents quit the first year. The Transfiguring Adoption Elf Squad is a group of people that want to help foster/adoptive families succeed. Buying an Elf Squad membership kit no...
Fostering Again…Oh, the Differences!
After a four and a half year period of not being licensed for foster care, we are back at it. We started out intending to do respite care only in order to give breaks to other foster parents, however,...
The Diagnosis Dilemma: 4 Purposes for Diagnosing a Child
Experience Morph’s One’s Ideology Experience morphs one’s ideology. This is so true in parenting. We come to parenthood with all types of ideas and theories. We plan to parent certai...
Tips For Raising A Multicultural Family – Discussion Panel
There is so much more to caring for a child from a different cultural background than haircare. Make sure that your giving your child everything they need to grow up and form their identity in the bes...
Adoption at the Movies
From the Cover of Adoption At The Movies by Addison Cooper: “For the adoptive family that loves to watch movies, this is the ultimate collection. With a film for each week of the year, Addison C...
How Do You See Hope In The Mess? – Nov. (2016) Discussion Panel
Sometimes foster or adoptive parents look at their life and wonder.. “How did I get here? This is a mess.” Learn tips and glean encouragement from our expert foster mothers. Join together ...
The Power of Play for Kids from Trauma Backgrounds
A Guest Blog from Jared & DeAnn Jennette – Embrace Parent Coaching When children from a traumatic background are brought into a foster/adoptive home, there are often so many areas of their l...