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Every Child Matters
I don’t remember how I wound up on this website, but a few weeks ago I stumbled across a website for Every Child Matters. Every Child Matters is a bi-partisan group trying to get political reform for...
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Help for Foster Children on Halloween
Who doesn’t like to get chocolate in their treat bag while out trick-or-treating? The Wendy’s food chain is helping foster children this Halloween, while giving kids a chocolaty treat. You can...
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Dave Pelzer
I cannot believe in the amount of time I have been blogging about foster care and adoption that I have not written about Dave Pelzer. If his name is not familiar to you, then his books probably are....
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The Scarf Project
This blog is not to “toot my own horn,” but instead to get you thinking about other ways that you can help children. I have talked about my friend, Bonnie, in other blogs. She is a former foster...
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Introducing Our Photo Listing Widget
I’ve had the pleasure of working with the Adoption.com Photo Listing for 6 years. When others ask what I do, most have never heard of an adoption photo listing. I explain there are thousands of...
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Black
Orange Shoe Guy (OSG) and I wrote a book. It is a children’s book and (though I am biased) I have to admit, it is good. OSG is in the unique position of being an African-American child in a Caucasian...
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When I Was Her Age
By the time I was ten I was doing my own laundry, caring for an aged and ill grandmother who lived with us, and I did my homework without assistance or even prompting. She’s not going to be that way....
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Raising a Traumatized Child
Eighteen years ago, when I went to my first adoption seminar, so many things came to mind: meeting “my” child for the first time, holding him or her in my arms, providing a safe home, giving all the...
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No More Consequences (aka THINKING) – Part 1
I have an internal dilemma: Is it that I am a lazy mom or is it that I am systematic and a believer in systems? It’s likely a bit of both. Whatever the root cause, I am struggling to change...
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Happy Adoption Day!
On November 17, we celebrated National Adoption Day. In our home, it’s the day in which we celebrate the adoption of all 5 of our children. Some years it’s a big party, this year, it was a little...
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