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| 60% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: Delta Catalog: Book Release date: 1999-10-12 Media: Paperback Number of pages: 240 Ean: 9780440508380 Book Isbn: 044050838X  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthor:
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"Birthdays may be difficult for me." "I want you to take the initiative in opening conversations about my birth family." "When I act out my fears in obnoxious ways, please hang in there with me." "I am afraid you will abandon me." The voices of adopted children are poignant, questioning. And they tell a familiar story of loss, fear, and hope. This extraordinary book, written by a woman who was adopted herself, gives voice to children's unspoken concerns, and shows adoptive parents how to free their kids from feelings of fear, abandonment, and shame. With warmth and candor, Sherrie Eldridge reveals the twenty complex emotional issues you must understand to nurture the child you love--that he must grieve his loss now if he is to receive love fully in the future--that she needs honest information about her birth family no matter how painful the details may be--and that although he may choose to search for his birth family, he will always rely on you to be his parents. Filled with powerful insights from children, parents, and experts in the field, plus practical strategies and case histories that will ring true for every adoptive family, Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew is an invaluable guide to the complex emotions that take up residence within the heart of the adopted child--and within the adoptive home. |
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 Written on December 31, 2007 Summary: Stay away This is the most negative, depressing collection of unscientific and undocumented drivel I have ever read. I would recommend that you DO NOT read this book if you are considering adoption. If you give any credence to the author, you will come away feeling that no one should ever adopt a child, lest the child be tormented by "toxic shame" and worse from day one ever after. Yes, many adoptees have unique feelings and circumstances that they need to have validated and that need to be addressed, but this book should not be used as a guidebook or source of information in that regard. If you still want to read this, check it out of a library, don't spend your money on it.  Written on December 18, 2007 Summary: This book has done WONDERS for parents I've counseled I am a clinical mental health therapist. I've worked with teens and adults, and have encountered quite a few "adoption issues" in counseling. For example, Reactive Attachment Disorder or adult adoptive parents who puzzle why their adult adopted children are hurt and angry. This book, which I have loaned to several parents, seems to have done wonders for their own understandings. Mothers have returned the book to me, telling me in gushing emotions how powerful and insightful the book has been to them. Particularly helpful are the chapters about the child's anger being misdirected against the adoptive parent. This is a heartbreaking experience that baffles a lot of parents, but the chapter in this book that explains the phenomenon is very well written. I appreciate the first-person tone of the writing, which also incorporates research, clinical findings, and the accounts of many other adoptive parents and adopted children. I've purchased additional copies and have made this book a staple in my library because of its smart sensitivity, spot-on research accuracy, and reading ease (it is not a clinical textbook; it's written for all of us). Written on September 27, 2007 Summary: Great Book for Adoptive Parents and possibly Adoptee's I have just begun reading this book but can already tell it is going to be very helpful for my husband and I and how we bring up our daughter. It is essential to know these things beforehand and to be equipped for how to deal with them. Written on September 13, 2007 Summary: Book review This is an awesome book and filled with valuable and useful information for ALL parties within the adoption triad! Written on August 12, 2007 Summary: Scary book I would NOT recommend this book to anyone considering adoption and the recommendations that Ms. Eldridge gives for adoptive children could be very psychologically harmful to children. |
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| Catalog | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book |
| Release date | 1999-10-12 | 2002-05 | 1998-07-10 | 1995-02-22 | 2003-04 | 1998-11 |
| Media | Paperback | Hardcover | Paperback | Paperback | Hardcover | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 240 | 391 | 400 | 270 | 240 | 272 |
| Ean | 9780440508380 | 9780944934296 | 9780060957179 | 9780300063172 | 9781576833070 | 9780944934210 |
| Book Isbn | 044050838X | 0944934293 | 0060957174 | 0300063172 | 1576833070 | 0944934218 |
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