Showing posts with label birth parents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birth parents. Show all posts
Saturday, May 8, 2010

"Does She Think About Me?"

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Maya is talking more and more about her birth parents in the past few weeks.  She's been pretty disinterested up to now, once declaring ...
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Saturday, April 24, 2010

The Worst Part is Not Knowing

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As I mentioned before , Zoe's music class at school has been studying the musical, Annie. She hasn't been bothered by it, and has t...
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

If Birth Mothers Can Do It, Why Can't Adoptive Mothers?

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In response to this post about Artyom's adoptive mother sending him back to Russia with a note saying she no longer wished to parent hi...
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Sunday, October 11, 2009

More scanning faces. . .

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I posted Friday about my conversation with Zoe about her scanning Chinese faces, looking for her birth parents even here in America. Here...
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Friday, October 9, 2009

Scanning faces and wondering . . .

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We went out for dinner last night to our favorite Chinese restaurant, and Zoe asked me, "Do you ever look at Chinese people and wonder ...
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Sunday, October 4, 2009

Is adoption natural?

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Issicat has a great blog post up, about prospective adoptive parents, brain washing, and "natural" mothers: And here is the other...
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Heart's Desire

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The conversation started innocuously enough. We're driving in the car and Zoe was doing her fake-British accent (don't ask!), She as...
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Monday, September 28, 2009

Backwards

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I've posted some stories before from Tai Dong Huai (see here and here ), adopted from China as a child, now an adult. She writes short ...
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Monday, September 21, 2009

What Happens When the Story Changes?

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We all know how difficult it is in international adoption to piece together our child’s story. We rely on information provided at the time ...
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Monday, September 7, 2009

Dinosaur Train: New PBS Kids Show With Adoption Themes

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The girls actually slept late this holiday morning -- 8:45 a.m., believe it or not! When I wandered into the family room a few minutes later...
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Thursday, August 27, 2009

More about Ponyo

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I posted before that after watching Ponyo , Maya said, “It was just like adoption!” I saw more differences than similarities to adoption, s...
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Monday, August 24, 2009

Have you REALLY told her she's adopted?

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In the old days , social workers advised adoptive parents to keep the adoption a secret. The conventional wisdom today is that children need...
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Saturday, August 15, 2009

"Adoptress" Letter

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On an adult adoptee's blog , this letter from an adoptive mother: I enjoy reading your blog and was hoping you wouldn't mind my aski...
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Friday, August 14, 2009

Adoption Goes to School ALREADY

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I can't say that I'm surprised that Zoe is already drawing and writing about her birth family at school. Yesterday she only had a ...
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Saturday, August 8, 2009

Nora’s Journey: A Korean Adoptee’s Life in a Chinese Family

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A really fascinating story, published in a Japanese-American newspaper, of a Korean-American child adopted by a Chinese-American family in 1...
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Transnational Adoption & the "Financialization of Everything"

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Interesting article by Jane Jeong Trenka , to be considered together with the report of the birth mother presentation I attended last month...
Monday, August 3, 2009

Summer Re-Run: Zoe Talks Adoption

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Zoe Talks Adoption -- Sept. 18, 2008 Adoption is hard to understand because you don't know who your birth parents are and you don'...
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Sunday, August 2, 2009

Summer Re-Run: Adoption is Hard to Understand

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Adoption is Hard to Understand , August 28, 2008 A couple of weeks ago, we were eating breakfast at Whataburger. Maya was cadging bites of m...
Saturday, August 1, 2009

Summer Re-Runs: The adoption story

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We're nearing the blog's one-year anniversary, and I'm feeling a little nostalgic. I thought I'd re-run some early posts wh...
Monday, July 27, 2009

Report: Korean Birth Mother Presentation

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Sorry it’s taken me so long to report on the birth mother presentation . I planned to blog about it as soon as I got the girls to bed last n...
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