Let’s Be Honest – Share Your Fears
Last month I posted a blog titled "What are you afraid of?" It discussed fears and how communicating these fears of adoptive parents and birthmothers is the key to building a trusting and successful relationship. My son's adoptive mother and I often shared our fears openly and I attribute the success of our arrangement to this fact.
It was sometimes surprising to each of us to hear what the other was afraid of. So, I'd like to ask for your input here. Please comment on this and share with me your fears. Be honest, everyone has them and if we just start talking about them we can start getting past them. I want to hear what you think! This not only gives me… [more]
The Open Adoption Bloggers Interview Project
To celebrate the first birthday of the Open Adoption Blogroll, Heather at Production, Not Reproduction invited OA bloggers to participate in the Open Adoption Bloggers Interview Project. My partner for the project was Weaver, an adult who was raised in open adoption, who blogs at Communities Don’t Get Built.... Many hopeful adoptive parents seek out the input and experiences of first parents and adoptees in an attempt to understand more about what adoption means to those on the other sides of the triad. (And if you’re not doing this, you should be. But that’s a topic for another post.) But far fewer adoptive parents actively seek to learn more about the experiences of those first parents and adoptees who write from an anti-adoption perspective. It’s human nature, after all… [more]
