November is National Adoption Month: Free Tips for Adoptive Families
November is National Adoption Month
Free Tips for Adoptive Families
November is National Adoption Month. Free tips by adoptee/social worker help adoptive parents explain adoption issues to a child.
Boston MA (PRWEB) October 2, 2004 -- Do you know what your mother looks like? Or where you were born? Most people do. Not adopted children. They often lack basic pieces of their story. How can adoptive parents help their children understand their history?
Beth O’Malley, M.Ed., social worker and adoptee, offers parents a unique tool—adoption lifebooks. A lifebook is a record of a child’s life from birth. It uses words, photos, and the child’s artwork to chronicle critical events in a child’s life. This includes abuse or other difficult situations. A lifebook helps an adoptee answer the question “ Why was I adopted?”
O’Malley, author of LifeBooks: Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child, says, “There are creative ways to deal with not having information as in the case of international adoptions or some foster care situations.”
Even for children who are not adopted, a lifebook is a great thing for parents and children to produce together. Not only can a lifebook bring them closer together as they make the book, but it also helps children feel good about themselves. Plus, as O'Malley points out, “It takes the zing out of adoption talk.”
In 1999, Beth O’Malley’s passion for helping other adoptees led her to creating a website http://www.adoptionlifebooks.com . Now families can learn more about creating these special books by signing up for online lifebook lessons---free of charge. In addition, O’Malley sends out a monthly newsletter, which she says “ goes all over the world.”
Not good with computers? To receive a free listing of Lifebook Tips, send a SASE to Adoption-Works, P.O. Box 520178, Winthrop MA 02152.
LifeBooks: Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child is available via amazon.com, local bookstores, or direct by calling 800-469-9666.
Free Tips for Adoptive Families
November is National Adoption Month. Free tips by adoptee/social worker help adoptive parents explain adoption issues to a child.
Boston MA (PRWEB) October 2, 2004 -- Do you know what your mother looks like? Or where you were born? Most people do. Not adopted children. They often lack basic pieces of their story. How can adoptive parents help their children understand their history?
Beth O’Malley, M.Ed., social worker and adoptee, offers parents a unique tool—adoption lifebooks. A lifebook is a record of a child’s life from birth. It uses words, photos, and the child’s artwork to chronicle critical events in a child’s life. This includes abuse or other difficult situations. A lifebook helps an adoptee answer the question “ Why was I adopted?”
O’Malley, author of LifeBooks: Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child, says, “There are creative ways to deal with not having information as in the case of international adoptions or some foster care situations.”
Even for children who are not adopted, a lifebook is a great thing for parents and children to produce together. Not only can a lifebook bring them closer together as they make the book, but it also helps children feel good about themselves. Plus, as O'Malley points out, “It takes the zing out of adoption talk.”
In 1999, Beth O’Malley’s passion for helping other adoptees led her to creating a website http://www.adoptionlifebooks.com . Now families can learn more about creating these special books by signing up for online lifebook lessons---free of charge. In addition, O’Malley sends out a monthly newsletter, which she says “ goes all over the world.”
Not good with computers? To receive a free listing of Lifebook Tips, send a SASE to Adoption-Works, P.O. Box 520178, Winthrop MA 02152.
LifeBooks: Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child is available via amazon.com, local bookstores, or direct by calling 800-469-9666.
