Today’s blog, Typical Children: Afloat on a Sea of Grief, is in response to a comment submitted by Jane. Jane’s question is a topic relevant to all adoptive families combining typical and adopted children.
Following is a “sneak preview” of blog topics to be posted over the next several months,
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What is All this Alphabet Soup: Understanding Children’s Mental Health Diagnoses
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This is not the Brother or Sister I Expected: The Need to Prepare the Typical Siblings
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A Summary of a Study of Eastern European Adoption Dissolution
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Infant Attachment and the Larger Adoptive Family
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The Importance of Play
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Affection is Wonderful: But is there Moral Development?
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Tick Tock: Priorities
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Language Development: An Update
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Children’s Books: Pre- and Post-Adoption
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Protecting the Development of Young Children
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Oh the Lying!
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The Benefits of Family Dinner
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Why is My Adopted Child such a Couch Potato: Developing Initiative
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Pre-Adoptive Education: Developing Realistic Expectations or Not?
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Complex Trauma in Children and Adolescents: An Excellent Way to Understand the Hurt Adoptee
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Keeping Fathers Involved throughout the Adoption Process
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Mobilizing the Immobilized Adoptive Family
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Triggers: Mother’s Day is Approaching
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Neurofeedback: What is It? What can It do for the Adoptee with a History of Trauma?
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KidsHealth: A Website for Parents, Kids and Teens
So, stay tuned to Perspectives on Challenged Family Building for these upcoming topics and much more!
Arleta – We are thrilled to know you are blogging! You REALLY made a difference in our family and we look forward to reading your blog. You rock!
Hello!
It was so good to hear from you! I’m very glad to know I helped you! I also like knowing I rock!
I’m glad to know you will be checking in on the blog – you have such great knowledge and experiences. It will great to have you here.
Sincerely,
Arleta
Hi, Arleta.
My friend Carla has made me a fan of yours. I’m a single, PAP who is adopting a little girl or sisters aged 4-6 years from Russia. I’d love to hear more about children adopted at this age.
Thanks!
Kate
Dear Kate,
It is always nice to hear from someone who knows Carla. I appreciate her support and now yours.
I think I will respond to your post by writing a blog related to transitioning international adoptees beyond the age of infancy. This is an important topic and there are some excellent ways to faciliate their transition in as successful a way as is possible. Please look for this information within the next two weeks.
Thank you for your question!
Arleta
Dear Kate,
Please look for the post, Sensitively Moving the Older Internationally Adopted Child on Tuesday.
Sincerely,
Arleta
I am very interested in joining this blog. My husband and I are in the process of adopting his niece and nephew (8 and 6) who were in the foster care system across the country from us. We have 3 birth children ages 16, 14 and 9. Our live has changed alot. We are struggling a bit with our 9 year old daughter and our 8 year old niece.
I worked for years as a caseworker for children in foster care in Vermont.
Thanks for the help…
Dear Beth,
Welcome! We are happy to have you visit the blog. I do believe that between the blog and the Perspectives’ books, we can certainly offer you some help integrating your neice and nephew into the family. I’m sure your casework experience will be helpful to you as well. I started as a caseworker myself.
If you have any specific questions, or topics you would like to see me post, please don’t hesitate to comment again.
Sincerely,
Arleta
Hello Arleta,
We have a adopted son that likes to steal, and would like to know if you could possibly adress this issue in a future blog. We are sure this must be a typical problem.
Also about anger issues, & another tricky topic, cutters ! I believe your insite on these topics would be very helpful to us and others.
NEW Fans,
Brian & Joselle Cuckler
Arleta does rock ! I’ve had the pleasure of working with her myself, you’d have a hard time finding a more competant professional.
ARLETA ROCKS !
Dr. B
Dear Dr. B.
Thank you for this comment! I greatly appreciate your thoughts about my professionals abilities!
Sincerely,
Arleta
Dear Dr. B.,
There is some information about stealing in this blog – http://perspectivespress.com/blog/2009/04/22/affection-is-wonderful-will-the-behaviors-ever-stop/
However, I am happy to write a blog that more specifically covers stealing. This is perhaps the most common behavior of traumatized children in addition to lying. Certainly, stealing is a behavior most troublesome to parents and to the child’s future.
I can write a post on those children who self-multilate as well.
You may look for these topics in July.
Sincerely,
Arleta