Help your child sleep through the night while promoting her attachment to you.
Ask AF: Sex Education Assistance
Can you recommend some books that will help us explain the facts of life?
Post-Adoption Check-Ups
When you bring your child for their first post-adoption check-up, what should the doctor be looking for?
Winning Your Child’s Trust Around the Dinner Table
In an excerpt from her guide to enjoying family meals, our childhood feeding specialist explains how to show your foster or adopted children love through food.
What to Expect: Special Needs Adoption
I’m considering a special-needs adoption. What might a referral indicate?
A Labor to Listen: Auditory Processing Disorder
If the sounds of the world are too much for your child, he may have an auditory processing problem. Learn how to figure it out and find help.
Ask AF: Rocking and Sleep
Rocking is a common sensory-seeking behavior, particularly for children who spent time in institutionalized settings.
Growing Up and Growing Older
“What do teens, who are moving toward college or career, need from their parents?” I asked my 17-year-old high school senior, as I sat hunkered over my laptop.
Ask AF: Grief — or Personality?
Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: Why Won’t My Child Stop Eating?
Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: Long Term Treatment for Emotional Problems
Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: Biracial and Multiracial Identity
My daughter’s birth parents are Caucasian and African-American. How should we talk with her about race? How do we fill out forms that ask about race and allow you to check only one box?
Ask AF: Prospective Parents’ Mental Health
Answers to your parenting questions.
Ask AF: How Do I Find an Adoption Medicine Physician?
Is there a certification process for physicians who specialize in international adoption?
Ask AF: Alleviating a Child’s Anxiety
Anxiety can affect a wide-range of children, even those that seem “well-adjusted.” If anxiety is a problem for your child, try following this expert advice to help him manage his feelings.
Ask AF: Insurance Hassles
Answers to your parenting questions.
Is This Normal? Speech Delays, Learning Disabilities, and Complications
What do I do if my child has emotional, behavioral, or academic problems?
Who Needs to Know Your Child’s Adoption Story?
Should I tell my child’s doctor she was adopted? What about her school?
“Motherhood in the Balance”
I sat at the kitchen table, holding the phone receiver as I waited for Nancy, our social worker at the adoption agency, to come on the line. How could I tell her that I had just been diagnosed with bipolar disorder?
Finding a Pediatrician to Review a Referral
No matter what kind of adoption you’re doing, it’s smart to enlist a pediatrician before you make any other decisions. The American Academy of Pediatrics has a section for adoption medicine, with a directory of members.