Four families share how they fit making scrapbooks and lifebooks into their busy lives after adopting.
Child-Created Lifebooks
Even if you’ve made a scrapbook or lifebook for your child, kids this age like to tell their own stories. Here’s how to help.
Adoption Scrapbooks Made Easy
Tips for capturing the journey leading up to your child’s adoption, and the precious moments after, in scrapbook your family will cherish forever.
A Tale to Treasure
Follow these pointers to capture your child’s adoption story in a personalized picture book.
Adoption Scrapbooks: A Link to the Past
An adoption scrapbook lets parents and children create a sense of history and of belonging.
7 Ways to Give Your Child a History
When a child is adopted from foster care at an older age, he needs to understand his story up to placement and the significance of his joining a new family forever. Here are hands-on activities you can use to start this conversation.
Parents Share: Creating Our Child’s Adoption Story
Parents share how they impart and strengthen their child’s adoption story.
Ask AF: Age-Appropriate Adoption Books
Answers to your parenting questions.
Explaining Donor Conception in Assisted Reproduction
Experts offer advice on how to talk to your child about donor conception.
Making Memories
Digital scrapbooking is the easy, new way to preserve your memories–and adoptive parents are leading the way!
“Letting Our Story Soar”
Writing and illustrating a fictional tale about a winged girl named Paloma helped my daughter and me talk about race, identity, and the realities of adoption. As a published book, it’s helping many other families do the same.
Thanks for the Memories!
A lifebook can fill in the gaps of your child’s early story — and creating it can be a fun project for all of you.
Lifebook Lessons
Five experts answer your questions in this how-to guide for creating what will likely become your child’s favorite read-to-me book.
Ask AF: Creating a Lifebook for a Teen
One adoptive mother wonders if she should make a lifebook, even though she doesn’t have many photos of his life before he came to her. AF readers respond.
Share Your Story: How Have You Told Your Child’s Adoption Story?
How have you handled conversations with your child about his or her adoption story? Real AF readers answer.
Take Your Best Shot
Adoptive parents — and photo pros — help you capture those precious moments with your kids.
Creating a Personal Adoption Storybook for Your Preschooler
Telling your child’s story in book form can cement his sense of belonging in your family and boost his self-esteem.