Adoption LIFEBOOK Every child needs a

Adoption LIFEBOOK Every child needs a Information is gold when you have adopted. Each little piece is valuable, both? Your photo or a quote from orphanage staff. LIFEBOOK put together all the pieces of information in a way that helps the child understand the meaning, and finally feel good about his history.People often ask me: "What is a LIFEBOOK? I will answer? E? And the best gift you can give an adopted child. LIFEBOOK one is a record of an adopted child? S life that uses words, pictures, your child? S art, computer graphics, and souvenirs. Ma? S plus a history of life. This is a unique opportunity for parents to honor every minute of their child? S life. LIFEBOOK one is the adoption of a blanket of security. He is talking about the adoption of any conversation envy. Put your child? S life story on paper is a simple concept. Who would have thought that the benefits are endless? My daughter? LIFEBOOK S that we carry and increase their confidence in me? Mary McGuire, adoptive mother of seven years, Cassie, a ChinaYes adopted, the concept is simple. LIFEBOOK is easy to write? Perhaps - perhaps not.The replete with stories and pictures once the child of his family. (How many boxes of photos that are stored away?) But this? S, not the child? S top. Imagine a picture of someone who is cut to the knee. This is what it's like not to have or to discuss your history. Adoptive end with a floating or numb feeling, without roots, to join to.I should know. I spent my first five months in custody before being adopted. I listened carefully to the silences of adoption during my childhood.Some families are reluctant to consider a LIFEBOOK. ? We do not know - how can we write when we know nothing? There are now a number of creative ways to work with little or no information. Ironically, it becomes even more critical for children with little personal details of a LIFEBOOK. Simply because the child does not speak? E? Not? t mean that there is not? t think the other parts of his life. Often? And before that the photo-period, which adopted want to know more about.It? S as the feeling of a lack of factors that may affect the seizure or the concentration of adopted children. LIFEBOOK can fill the missing pieces with words, pictures and photographs, if possible. Words create images in which there is none .. My mother is a social worker who used LIFEBOOK hours in his work. LIFEBOOK like to have available 22 years ago? Perhaps we can have a lot of unanswered questions? Kate 22 years, from adults, Colombia adopted a new social worker.Adopted children often have secret thoughts about why they were adopted. Many people think that somehow they are responsible for the separation from their biological family. In six years, I decided that my birth parents died in a plane crash in Africa. I can t tell a soul. Then I changed the story. It has always been death. E? And the power of magic thinking.LifeBooks help reduce magical thinking and fantasy. They are free of an adopted son to pay greater attention to the school. Or to be more available to focus on ability and interest. Best to be a child playing soccer, or painting a picture that dream infinity? What happened. If your child comes from another country, you know that? S important to discuss this country? S and / or rules for adoptions. Often, the only explanation for a child is the reason why he was placed. LIFEBOOK is the ultimate training tool and can save hours of therapy later in life.Remind as your children are related to their adoptive family, while not looking like yourself. This May in the form of similar voice pattes, talents, food choices or interests. It took 45 years to know that I got my sense of 'dry humor from my adoptive father. (OK, so I was a little 'slow) Do not assume that your child does not want to be reminded often of these links. Repeating.In They relate to its history, show your child and celebrate their strength and survival .. Sara? S story? What better way to welcome him as the preparation and preservation of its history with a LIFEBOOK? Mimi Robins, adoptive grandmother of 4 years, Sara, ChinaHelp for your children to feel proud of their strengths and assets of their birth parents. As Corinne Raybu, LCSW, LMFT say? birth families in the laws? do not you? t choose between them, but they have to [accept] them. If you? T has all the information, then your child? The talent and perhaps ask if they have had their artistic talent from unknown father.The birth? Page biological parents? LIFEBOOK really help with those years, when a difficult adolescent identity issues begin to peak. The more your child knows, the more you hear? Real. Some might say? Our family is still very open and talk about adoption, why write? As a book that you and your child can take and hold, allowing the monitoring of adopted its history. A child can see where the desire for success, without having to ask. Becomes symbolic for the adoption discussion. LIFEBOOK my mother to read. Where? Where? LIFEBOOK S but, I want to show my friend?. The child is older, more of a family in need of tools to communicate on the adoption of start thinking issues.If LIFEBOOK which are very strong, I ask you where to start. Here are some suggestions of Mr. Vera Fahlberg, national adoption expert:? starting with the child? s birth? Always discuss the mother and father (even if they do not know anything that you say? know)? discuss the reason for separation from the biological family to include the birth certificate (if available). This official document that has always fascinated children of all ages. Court papers or official documents, is not enough if the birth is available.Once it laid the foundations of history with the birth, and then add the fun part, when they joined your family. Don t get caught in creating? Perfect? LIFEBOOK. LIFEBOOK become wo and to and more beautiful with age. The only real mistake you can do is never begin.The latest magic to create a treasure LIFEBOOK executes the work as a family, and give to your child. Although only five pages, is the tangible proof that your child is sufficiently valuable to deserve this treasure.By Beth O? Malley M.Ed. adopted, the adoptive mother and author of LIFEBOOK: Create a treasure of an adopted child of copyright 2005 Register for Classes LIFEBOOK (without charge)