http://open.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/answering-your-childa-8217-s-questions Blog with information on open adoption. Includes advice, tips, concerns, and news articles about open adoption. Birthparent and Adoptive parent blog on open adoption. Articles, information, and news about the open adoption experience. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:49:15 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://open.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/answering-your-childa-8217-s-questions/comment-page-1#comment-1950 aspen2/14 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:33:42 +0000 http://open-adoptio.www.adoptionblogs.com/2009/06/28/answering-your-childa-8217-s-questions#comment-1950 My foster daughter said to me one day I remeber when her dad and I left her and her brother at the apartment across the hall from our apartment. Funny thing is my husband and have never lived in an apartment together and we don't now either. I know she was recalling something from her past. She is young (5 yr old) and this was about a year ago or more. Even though she has seen her birth mom she never asks about her. Hopefully we are comeing to the end of our journery she and her brother have been with our family for over 3 years and we are hopeling we are going to be thier forever home. Birth mom will not give up her rights even though we are in SCPT now. My foster daughter said to me one day I remeber when her dad and I left her and her brother at the apartment across the hall from our apartment. Funny thing is my husband and have never lived in an apartment together and we don’t now either. I know she was recalling something from her past. She is young (5 yr old) and this was about a year ago or more. Even though she has seen her birth mom she never asks about her. Hopefully we are comeing to the end of our journery she and her brother have been with our family for over 3 years and we are hopeling we are going to be thier forever home. Birth mom will not give up her rights even though we are in SCPT now.

]]> http://open.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/answering-your-childa-8217-s-questions/comment-page-1#comment-1949 my fabulous five Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:52:34 +0000 http://open-adoptio.www.adoptionblogs.com/2009/06/28/answering-your-childa-8217-s-questions#comment-1949 As an adoptive parent of two school aged children, I try to be as open and hoest with them as possible. My kids were five and six when removed from their mom's care and seven and eight when we adopted them. They are old enough to remember some things but have a very warped sense of reality. For instance, they told me that they couldn't live with their mom any more because her car broke down. Reality was, she told them that after she left them home alone for two days and went out partying. She said I couldn't get back home to you because the car broke down. Therefore, when we had a fan belt break on vacation, my son burst into tears because he thought the police were going to come and take him away and make him live with a new family. Very sad. I think if you can answer the questions honestly that is the best thing. It may raise more questions but it will do your kids a world of good and help them tremendously. As an adoptive parent of two school aged children, I try to be as open and hoest with them as possible. My kids were five and six when removed from their mom’s care and seven and eight when we adopted them. They are old enough to remember some things but have a very warped sense of reality. For instance, they told me that they couldn’t live with their mom any more because her car broke down. Reality was, she told them that after she left them home alone for two days and went out partying. She said I couldn’t get back home to you because the car broke down. Therefore, when we had a fan belt break on vacation, my son burst into tears because he thought the police were going to come and take him away and make him live with a new family. Very sad. I think if you can answer the questions honestly that is the best thing. It may raise more questions but it will do your kids a world of good and help them tremendously.

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