Books for Children

Well The last blog was finding resources on how to adopt and some the physical and emotional problems that may come with your child. Sorry about the typo MS Word had no problem with the title of the last book How To get Your Kid To east… It should have been Eat. In case you couldn't tell I suck at this blog stuff. I am trying to get it to use a particular font – sometimes it works lately it doesn't. One particular irk is the fact that I use 2 spaces between sentences – It seems as though that is no longer the norm. Then lists are a total baffle. Let alone getting things into bold underline and what have you. Someone said remember when we used 5 ¼ floppies and WordStar fit on one disk and there was room for a few letters too. Well this is somewhat similar to that. Great I thought we have gotten past 1985 writing where part of the writing was coding.

So much for that tangent. Here are a few books that our daughter has been reading. By the way as soon as we knew we were adopting we let her know that she was getting a sister from India and giving her a name. For privacy reasons I have purposely not used any names so I make up another one here… In early December our daughter said "Susan is coming soon". She really is ready for her sister.

Name/Author/ISBN

I'm a Big Sister /Joanna Cole / 0-688-14509-4

Adoption Is For Always / Linda Walvoord Girard / 0-8075-0185-9

We Belong Together / Todd Parr / 0-316-01688-3

I Love You Like Crazy Cakes / Rose Lewis / 0-316-52538-3

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Educate Yourself About Your Child

The adoption agency my have you take an on-line course or two to prepare you for your child. No course is going to be able to predict the demeanour and behaviour of your child. We have taken a couple courses and at the very least they may prepare you for the worse possible case. We pray that in no way will our child have been subjected to the horrors that they have portrayed.

We have been doing some reading of our own. The books listed here are just what is in our library. I am not sure that even these are totally helpful. I think at best there are little nuggets of information that will help us once we get our child. At worse that have killed a few hours of time n the evening. There are listed in no particular order – they just fell off the shelf in this order

Name/Author/ISBN

Adopting in California

Randall B. Hicks

0-9631638-8-4

Adoption Resource Book

Lois Gilman

0-06-273361-3

20 Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew

Sherrie Eldridge

0-440-50838-X

Treasury of Adoption Miracles

Karen Kingsbury

0-446-53337-8

Making Sense of Adoption

Lois Ruskai Melina

0-06-096319-0

Adoption For Dummies

Tracy Barr/Katrina Carlisle

0-7645-5488-3

Shepherding A Child's Heart

Tedd Tripp

0-9663786-0-1

Adopting A Toddler

What Size Shoes Does She Wear?

Denise Harris Hoppenhauer

0-595-29724-2

Toddler Adoption

The Weavers Craft

Mary Hopkins-Best

0-944934-21-8

Parenting From The Inside Out

Daniel Siegel & Mary Hartzell

1-58542-295-9

How To get Your Kid To east…

But Not Too Much

Ellyn Satter

0-915950-83-9

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