Finally, a comprehensive parenting book for adoptive families!
Over 100 contributors have helped EMK Press to weave a stunning tapestry of advice specifically for adoptive parents. Parenting adopted children requires parenting with an extra layer and this book helps you to understand where that extra layer falls. This 520 page book is a wealth of information for the newly arrived home family and the experienced family as well. This is a book you won’t read all at once, but come back to again and again as your child’s awareness of who they are develops and your awareness of how to help them increases.
Our adopted children come to us from loss–loss of a birthfamily, culture, and language. There are helpful things that we can do to address these issues, and Adoption Parenting helps you to create an awareness to do just that. We also look at stumbling blocks to good parenting, and standard parenting practices that aren’t right for adopted children.
We look at the core issues all members of the adoption triad face, and look at how that affects standard parenting challenges like sleeping through the night, discipline, and attachment. We cover specific challenges families have faced: Sleep issues, FASD, Trauma and PTSD, Sensory Integration, Speech and Language delays, and at ways to effectively parent a post-institutionalized child.
“Adoption Parenting is a beautiful patchwork of wisdom from life
experiences and experts in the adoption field. Parents will find it thoroughly engaging and extremely practical. I highly recommend it!”
--Sherrie Eldridge
Adoptee, adoptive grandmother and Author of "Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew", and "Twenty Life-Transforming
Choices Adoptees Need to Make"
“Adoption Parenting is a wonderful addition to the books available for
adoptive families; I will certainly be
recommending it. It is well written; doesn’t dodge the difficult challenges attendant to adoption and offers
practical advice to the reader. I do wish
I had had this book to read when I was adopting in the 60’s.”
--Sharon Kaplan Roszia MS, Co-author Seven Core Issues in Adoption, Program Director of Special Needs Adoptions, Kinship Center, California
