Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
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- ISBN13: 9780440508380
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“Birthdays may be hard for me.”
“I want you to take the initiative in opening conversations about my birth family tree.”
“When I act out my fears in obnoxious ways, please hang in there with me.”
“I am worried you will abandon me.”
The voices of adopted children are poignant, questioning. And they tell a familiar tale of loss, dread, and hope. This extraordinary book, written by a woman who was adopted herself, gives voice to children’s unspoken concerns, and shows adoptive parents how to free their kids from feelings of dread, abandonment, and bring shame on.
With warmth and candor, Sherrie Eldridge reveals the twenty complex emotional issues you must know to nurture the child you like–that he must grieve his loss now if he is to receive like fully in the future–that she needs honest information about her birth family tree no matter how painful the details may be–and that although he may choose to search for his birth family tree, he will permanently rely on you to be his parents.
Filled with powerful insights from children, parents, and experts in the meadow, plus practical strategies and case histories that will ring right for every adoptive family tree, Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew is an invaluable guide to the complex emotions that take up residence within the heart of the adopted child–and within the adoptive home.
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And to all the pre-adoptive & adoptive parents who live in outer space! If the truth scares you–please DO NOT READ!
You may suffer from buyer’s remorse and your “buy” may have feelings that do not mirror yours. It’s right! Face it, you have entered into a social contract where the product/child did not have a choice–and suffered a terrific loss. No matter which way you slice it.
Some reviewers say the leader makes “sweeping generalizations”. Of course she does. Just like a book on addiction makes generalizations about addicts–most are right. Ms. Eldridge does too.
The adoptive parents (most of the one star negative reviewers) are kidding themselves. If you reflect these aren’t issues for your children, then you’re monsterously self centered, and your “excellent” relationship with your child is a sham.
For the APs who give it excellent reviews, bless you for your compassion. You’re excellent parents indeed.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This is not a book for adoptive parents but rather for adult adoptees who want to be told that all their problems in life stem from adoption. It is certainly not a excellent parenting book. The only adoptive parents who would delight in this book are masochists.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
… when I read books like this one. Please read all the negative reviews on this book before you consider reading the book itself. Truth and Grace are much better answers than all the “primal wound” things this leader addresses. I’m not adage we go into total denial of the unique needs that an adopted child MAY experience. What I am adage is that we need to get God’s perspective on the adpoted child rather than continually focussing on all the negative stuff.
“A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows,
is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families…”
(Ps 68:5-6 NIV)
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I didn’t end the book, I couldn’t take anymore. The book was depressing and morose. Being an adoptive parent, I am not raising my children to judge that they are in anyway more or less special, adopted or biological. My children tell me everyday the things I need to know…
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book wasn’t what I had hoped it to be. First of all the Leader didn’t clarify her relationship with her parents. All we really knew was that they passed away and it was rocky during her teenage years. As an adoptive parent, I know children feeling loss and misunderstood, but give us parents a break once in awhile. Most adoptive parents are wonderful, we seek help for the children when needed and change our whole life around to please the children in the family tree. Why do many Adult adoptees grow up unconnected with their adoptive parents? I just can’t know this and never will. I suppose children could stay with their birth parents and suffer through the drug addiction and alcoholism, let alone homelessness ect. But as a replacement for they get homes filled with like and parents who place them first.
I doubt, I will buy any additional books from this Leader.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5