If your faith is important to you and your parenting, there are healthy and unhealthy ways to connect God with adoption. And they probably aren’t what you think.… Continue Reading
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Ask the Practice Parent: Quitting a Long-term, Expensive Activity
Dear Practice Parent, I have been playing piano for 10 years. I used to love it, but now I only kind of like it. I’m also actually pretty good at it. I wanted to quit 3 years ago but my mom and dad wouldn’t let me. I agreed to play for one more year but I kept… Continue Reading
What They Didn’t Teach us in Adoption Classes about Raising Black children
In preparation for adoption, we took multiple classes through our agency. We learned everything from general care of children (the easy part) to honoring our children’s cultures and how to work through the emotional needs of children who join a family through adoption. With regards to adoption of black children by white parents, they warned… Continue Reading
On Parenting and Peeing
Since I began parenting, I have operated under the delusion that I would one day be able to pee without interruption. I figured it would happen around the time all of my kids were in the double-digits. Did you get the word “delusion”? Delusion! Wanting our kids to clearly understand that there are so very… Continue Reading
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