Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: Preschooler Grieving After a Failed Match
Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: Assuming Friends Were Adopted
Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: Acting Out After Birth Mother Visits
Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: How Do I Set Boundaries With My Child’s Birth Family?
Answers to your parenting questions.
Open Adoption: A Reference Guide for Families
Openness brings great benefits to all involved, as well as some unique dilemmas. Addressing them requires flexibility, sensitivity to the birth family, and confidence in yourself as parents. Here’s how to make it work for your family.
Ask AF: Discussing an Unsuccessful Placement
Answers to your parenting questions.
Real Parents Provide Discipline
Setting limits can be tough for parents–but it’s important to discipline our children anyway.
Alleviating Children’s Money Worries
The recession is a grown-up problem, but kids may be having money-related concerns of their own. Here’s how to calm their fears.
Can My Child Handle Sleep Away Camp?
Parents wonder if preteens will experience separation anxiety at sleep away camp. Learn how to tell if yours is ready, and then ease the transition.
When Kids Worry About Being Perfect
We want our children to do well—but we also want them to enjoy being kids. How do we help them strike a balance?
Dealing with Adoptee Fears of Loss
Do adoptees who’ve already experienced the loss of birth parents worry more than other kids about their parents dying?
Different, Yet the Same
Playmates and mentors can help children find common ground.
Birth Parent Fantasies — and Fears
An adopted child may imagine life with her birth parents as “the road not taken.” Parents should share what they know and support exploration.
A Striking Resemblance!
Families who “match” don’t have to answer many nosy questions. Instead, they must decide whom, when, and what to tell.
Ask AF: Separation Anxiety?
Some adopted children may have some sort of separation anxiety, and need constant reassurance that you are indeed their “forever parents,” advises Joni Mantell, LCSW.
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