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A Transracially-Adopted Child’s Bill of Rights
Photo: One Thousand for One Last week my daughter came home from middle school full of energy and with a look on her face that I recognized. She had connected with someone at school in a significant...
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Perfection and The Freedom Journal
Notes get sent home in her backpack. Notes from her teacher asking me to please help her speed up the process of writing; encourage her to move more quickly. I get assessment reports saying she is...
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The Truth in Your DNA
Photo: Alamy Her words hit me in the gut. “Mom, I don’t care if it’s my birthday and Christmas presents for the next five years. The greatest gift I could ever receive is knowing who I am.” My...
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In Praise of Adjectives
Adjectives, nouns, and verbs. Second grade begins to teach the navigation of words in the English language. My seven year old had no problem with nouns and verbs, but adjectives trouble her. As seen by...
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November is National Adoption Month. Every year the month of November creates awareness of the need for adoptive families for children in foster care. Since its formation in the 1990s, National...
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The Best Reads from NAM
Original photo: Put it on a page National Adoption Month is over. The month of November can so often be a mixed bag of emotion for adoptees and adoptive families. There seems to be an unending circle...
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Waiting for Truth
My daughters at a Youth Rally in Portland, Oregon #blacklivesmatter On December 9th I began drafting a response to the situation in Ferguson, to the denigration of black bodies, to the growing and...
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Participate
Yesterday my kindergartner came home after a discussion about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at school and had questions. I was busy making dinner, answering questions about homework requirements, checking...
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Words
Words. I recall this saying, Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me. It was a lie. In the adoption world, especially in the transracial adoption world, words hurt....
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Encouraging Multiracial Identity
Two things that are of utmost importance to me as a transracial adoptive parent are learning from adult adoptees and gathering tools for my child that encourage her identity. That’s why when I read...
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