Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child: From Your First Hours Together Through the Teen Years
- ISBN13: 9781558323261
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
In this book, child and family therapist Patty Cogen, M.A., Ed.D. guides parents in promoting an internationally adopted child’s social and emotional adjustment, explaining how to help a child adopted between the ages of six months and five years bond with his or her new parents, become a part of the family, and develop a positive self-image that incorporates both American identity and ethnic origins. Other topics include how (and why) to tell the child’s story from… More >>
Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child: From Your First Hours Together Through the Teen Years
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Civil Wars, famines, tyrannical governments, so many factors may take parents from a child so early in their life. “Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child: From Your First Hours Together Through the Teen Years” is a guide for those parents with big enough hearts to take in a child that is not only not their own, but from another country entirely. Focusing on advice on helping bridging the cultural divide and helping the children get over the loss of their old home, regardless if it was horrible or not, it’s an ideal guide for these parents who want to help these children’s transitions be as smooth as possible. “Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child” is a must for these parents for the info contained within.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a wonderful book for both preadoptive and adoptive parents. It gives parents great ideas for things to try with your child as they grow up. All adoptive parents should read this book! Adoptive parents will reference it many times while raising their adoptive child.
Robin
http://www.thinkingofadopting.com
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a wonderfully written and comprehensive book about adoption and parenting. I have been reading tons about adoption, parenting and how children learn, and this is the one book that summarizes everything thoroughly and straight to the point. Much of the content is backed up by scientific and psychological research. It is a must read for any parent adopting a child from overseas. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Rating: 5 / 5
We adopted our child seven years ago and just recently bought this book. How I wish we would have had it six years ago! This book should be required reading for any parent of an internationally adopted child. It will help you understand your child’s behavior, feelings and needs. It is well written and the information is well organized. So even if your child has been home with you for several years – I recommend you purchase and read this book!
Rating: 5 / 5
We have two daughters, ages 12 and 8, who have been home with us for just over 20 months. Prior to the adoption, we took some training to meet Hague requirements. After that we went on reading and learning because we wanted to have a broad understanding of the issues we might encounter and approaches that might be useful. I estimate that we have 20 well-worn books on our adoption bookshelf. All are excellent, but this one is the best.
Although the author clearly has therapeutic preferences, she isn’t trying to convince us that she is RIGHT. She offers quite practical ideas to help parents to see concrete ways of building trust and attachment, for example, and for understanding our children’s difficult behaviors.
I think this book should remove ‘Internationally Adopted’ from its title: it would benefit all parents!
Rating: 5 / 5