Tales From Our House

Mom guilt, we are all familiar with the pressure's we take on from what society says makes a, "good mom." I have several ...

I had to chuckle a little when I saw this quote come up in my FB feed. I think it accurately describes what we special needs parents fe...

Trauma. What comes to mind when you hear that word? In the world of adoption, we automatically tend to think separation from birth paren...

My blog posts have been few and far between these last months. I was dealing with health problems that had doctor's stumped. I reacted ...

I have recently begun following  Beating Trauma With Elisabeth Corey   and love her many thought provoking posts and comments. If you ...

Someone shared this with our support group and I fell in love with it. I thought it perfectly sums up what it is like to parent childr...

How many of you have in a moment of deep pain cried out to God and said, "I wanted to adopt. I knew that it wouldn't be easy, but ...

Parenting is hard work. Looking after all the little details can make even the staunchest brain fizzle and sputter. When you add menta...

The first months and years of a child's life are critical for building the foundations on which they which they will construct relat...

As an adoptive mom I have often been asked how old our children were when they came to us. When people hear that most of them were 6 mo...

Last night we went to get our passports, something we have talked about doing for a long time but kept pushing off. As Dean and I sat ...

"Don't let your values get in the way of your child's needs." Most people have a set of values which they have...

Children who have trouble bonding and those who have an insecure attachment need to hear people from outside the family praise their p...

Our "therapist finding fiasco" may finally be over! I have been calling therapists near and far, searching for an attachment ther...

From time to time I get the question, "If B's attachment problems are from early childhood trauma, why doesn't Joseph have ...