“Your son is incapable of learning.”
I sat for a minute, looking at the counselor who had requested the meeting, trying to decide if I had heard her correctly. I felt my left hand press against my pounding heart.
“Did you say, ‘incapable of learning?’” I queried. “Yes,” she responded, and proceeded to mouth paragraphs of jargon, [...]
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Your son is incapable of learning
Posted in adoption, children, family, home, parenting, tagged adoption, disabilities, handicap, learning, learning differences, learning disabilities, retardation on June 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Is Adoption for Everyone?
Posted in adoption, babies, children, family, home, parenting, tagged adopting, adoption, babies, children, family, home, parenting, special needs adoption on February 12, 2008 | 9 Comments »
If you want to be a parent, you are a candidate for adoption.
It is a natural desire to wish to pro-create. Every living thing on earth replicates and creates young, whether it is a bird or a blade of grass. It is also natural to want to protect those who are [...]
Should I Tell My Child That He’s Adopted?
Posted in adoption, babies, children, family, home, parenting, tagged adoption, children, family, motherhood, parenting, special needs on February 6, 2008 | 24 Comments »
My son came home at seven-days-of age. Fifteen years later, I am still in Nursery Nirvana. From the moment I first held him in my arms, I have felt a deep pride in him and how he came to be my son – and he knows it.
We have always discussed adoption naturally and openly, and [...]
Right Now I Want to Write About the Courage of a Young Man
Posted in adoption, animals, children, family, home, lake, parenting, tagged animals, courage, dog, family, lake life, parenting, rabbits, rescue, saving, winter on January 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Right now I want to write about the courage of the human spirit. In particular, the spirit locked within the adolescent breast of my thirteen-year-old son.
Right now I want to write about his witness, about his goodness, about his compassion.
Last night my son stepped into the icy waters of an ice-rimed [...]
Will An Adoptive Child Ever Feel Like My Own?
Posted in adoption, babies, children, family, home, tagged adopting, adoptive, babies, children, family, home, love on October 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was taking it easy this morning and indulging myself in some adoption-related blogs, when I came across a beautifully written entry by a single mother whose little girl was adopted from Guatemala http://wilmarket.wordpress.com/category/adoption/ . Her deep love for her child shone through every word, every phrase, and reminded me of the joy [...]
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