For children with learning disabilities, early intervention can make the difference.
What Your Child’s Teacher Needs to Know
Teachers are facing increasing demands in the classroom, so it’s up to you to take the necessary steps to make sure your child’s needs are met.
Friends Like Me: The Value of Adoptee Peer Groups
Want to do something wonderful for your grade-schooler? Hook her up with other kids who were adopted.
Is College Possible?
It’s not uncommon for a child to have different interests — and academic skills — than his achieving parents.
Is Your Child Ready for School?
She has her backpack, pencils, and notebook. But does she know how to field adoption questions that might come her way?
Peers, Pressure, and Popularity
“Come on, everyone else is doing it.”
Staying Close While Giving Your Teen Space
Adolescence only lasts a short time — help your child through the rough patches and enjoy watching her grow into an individual.
The Kindergarten Transition
Starting school is exciting for kids, but it can also be a little scary. A mother of two shares her experiences and some tips on how to cope.
Letting Go of Mommy
How to ease your child’s entry to the wider world outside your home.
When the Questions Begin
Your preschooler is curious — and so are his peers. Help him get ready for inquiring young minds.
Out On Their Own
At school, children have to fend for themselves. Here are words they can live by.
Imaginary Birth Parents
Your child may never have met his first mom and dad. But that doesn’t mean he’s not spinning stories about them.
Teens, Drinking, and Drugs
It’s a national issue. Is your child at risk?
Sticky Assignments
From requests for baby pictures to making family trees, adopted kids face challenges in the classroom. Here’s how to help.
As Friendships Evolve
Sometimes growing up means letting go of childhood friends.
Keep Them Reading
Five strategies that will encourage teens to turn the page.
Ask AF: An Invasive Assignment
An adoptive parent asks how to react to her middle schooler’s assignment to write a report about his birth. Adoption at school expert Lansing Wood offers guidance on speaking with the teacher.
Ask AF: What’s the Big Secret?
My 8-year-old has always seemed comfortable about adoption. Recently, though, he’s been telling classmates that he was adopted, but asking them to keep it secret. Should I be worried?
A Memo to My Fellow Teachers
When it comes to adoption, instructors need to check their curriculum and their stereotypes.
A Letter to Your Child’s Teacher
Even a teacher sensitive to adoption may benefit from having words to say.