Helpful Adoption Prep Articles

Here are some helpful online articles and websites that I have found helpful for us…(click on any title and it will link you to the article or website)

Bonding
Attachment
Promoting Healthy Attachment
Sharing Your Child’s Life Story
Principles for Sharing Life Story
Making a Life Story Book
Articles on Attachment
Connecting Through Everyday Babycare
Establishing a Routine
When One Parent is Rejected

FIRST YEAR HOME

Family/Friends Support
Why Grandma Can’t Pick up Baby
Gracious Answers to Awkward Questions
Relatives Say the Strangest Things

Behaviors
Hoarding Food
Dealing with Adoption Stress
When Food is your Battleground
Ready, Set, Regress
Sleeping

Dispcipline
Healthy Discipline for Adopted Children
Explaining Discipline Differences to other children