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While holidays are great time to spend quality time with friends and family it can also be overwhelming to kids with sensory, processing, learning, attention, or impulse control issues.  10 Holiday Stressors for Kids With Learning and Attention Issues By Amanda Morin, Understood.org  https://www.understood.org/en/family/events-outings/holidays-celebrations/10-holiday-stressors-for-kids-with-learning-and-attention-issues

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Between age four to six months, babies are ready to eat solid foods. Once your baby can sit with support and has lost her extrusion reflex: the one that causes her to push out her tongue, then she can take food from a spoon.  She’ll probably start showing interest in other people’s food, making chewing and will […]

If you are a Facebook or social media user,  you may have seen that your friends have been  posting daily, something that they are thankful for. Here are a few of my favorites:   I am thankful for adoption, without it we would not be a family. I am thankful for my children’s birthparents; who choose life. I […]

Over the course of many years, we have heard many reasons why families don’t pursue an adoption. Once you get past the fear factor, the three most common ones are I’m not rich, I’m not married, and I don’t own my own home.   You don’t have to be rich to adopt, nor do you […]

As parents we all think that our children are going to grow up and be famous one day. For some parents that dream comes true.  Take a look at some of these famous adoptees.

For more than twenty years, the adoption community has observed November as National Adoption Month.  What was originally started to help educate the public about adoption, and to help bring attention to hundreds of thousands of waiting children in North America, is now a time to celebrate adoption, the diversity of the family, and understanding the […]

Many members of the adoption triad are haunted by ghost.  For some it’s the starts on the path of infertility, for others it’s unsuccessful IFV or miscarriages. The death of a child or death of a dream can be eerily similar in the processing of grief and loss. Adoptive parents may be haunted by a […]

“Thousands of adoptions happen every year in this country. In every single case, a child is told in effect, “I choose you.” It’s a picture of God’s love toward us (Roman 5:8). In adoption, a parent doesn’t choose a child because of merit or based on what he might bring to the family. You choose […]

“Health care providers and researchers don’t know the exact causes of SIDS, but they do know methods to help reduce the risk of SIDS and other sleep-related SUID” According to the CDC, these include the following : Always place babies on their backs to sleep for every sleep. Use a firm sleep surface, such as […]