Archive for the ‘Issues’ Category

Is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome an Economic Problem?

Is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome an Economic Problem?
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome affects 1 or 2 out of every 1000 births and it’s a completely preventable disorder. But, with the United States in one of the worst recessions in history, more and more people have been turning to drinking to ease depression. Experts recognize losing a job as one of the...
March 10th, 2010 | Feature, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Issues, Russia | Read More

Adoption Facts Demand Infant Adoption Reformation

There are some facts about adoption that, really, you cannot dispute unless you are just trying to purposely to stay ignorant regarding the facts of infant adoption in this country. Adoption is, in its perfect form, suppose to be about finding homes for children that need them, not about finding children...
March 9th, 2010 | First-Moms, Issues | Read More

Sunday Showcase-Positive Stereotyping is Not Always Positive

Sunday Showcase-Positive Stereotyping is Not Always Positive
We missed our Sunday Showcase last week because of the Carnival. We’re back this week with a fabulous article from Uncharted Parent. She originally gave me this post,  How Much of Your Child’s Birth Culture Should You Incorporate into Your Home?, to showcase but after reading this one I couldn’t...
March 7th, 2010 | Culture, Korea, Sunday Showcase | Read More

Mommy Bloggers Should Retire Too

Mommy Bloggers Should Retire Too
It’s tax time and no doubt, anyone not getting a refund would like to know how to make one happen.  As much as pop culture likes to glorify salacious stories about tax-wise celebrities jetting off to Curacao with a suitcase full of cash, the truth is that the best tax savings strategies are also...
March 5th, 2010 | Advice, Feature, Issues, Tax | Read More

My RAD Parenting Grab Bag (part 2)

My RAD Parenting Grab Bag (part 2)
Help support GIMH! Vote for our Room of Your Own at BlogHer! Log-in to BlogHer and then vote as an attendee. More of my ideas and techniques are below, continued from part one (don’t miss it…).  Same disclaimers apply:  I’m not an expert and these aren’t all my ‘original’...
March 2nd, 2010 | Attachment, Feature, Russia | Read More

Reactive Attachment Parenting Grab Bag (part 1)

Reactive Attachment Parenting Grab Bag (part 1)
My grab bag of RAD techniques Parenting a child with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) is a struggle.  There are those saintly folks out there who can do it with grace and dignity and I am not one of them.  However, through many readings, daily research, an ear to listen to those who’ve gone before...
March 1st, 2010 | Attachment, Feature, Russia | Read More

Adoption Carnival VI: the Racism Rainbow

Adoption Carnival VI: the Racism Rainbow
I didn’t know what the topic for this carnival was going to be until today when I read our newest writer’s post; Little Bigots at Basketball. It hurt my heart to read it. Then, I read Tonggu Momma’s post on Chinese Food. Seriously, what kind of parents are we raising? My family lives...
February 26th, 2010 | Carnival, Feature, racism | Read More

Were they Orphans? Does it Really Matter Graff?

Save the Children and Unicef both believe that children are better off in their home countries. Save the Children has gone so far as to say that international adoption can actually  “exacerbate the problem it hopes to solve…the very existence of orphanages encourages poor parents to abandon...
February 25th, 2010 | Advocate, Domestic, Feature, Health | Read More

Kids and Culture: What’s Most Important?

Kids and Culture: What’s Most Important?
Every year for Chinese New Year, our foster home celebrates the holiday by engaging in all the most common traditions – decorating the home with paper cuttings and chuen lian (door post hangings), lighting fire crackers, eating lots of oranges, making jiaozi (dumplings) and stuffing ourselves until...
February 24th, 2010 | Advocate, China, Culture, Haiti | Read More

The Adopted Child’s Loss

The Adopted Child’s Loss
My daughter arrived home at thirteen months, broken in spirit and disconnected. I sensed that she was engulfed in an invisible cocoon. Her cries and screams, which happened without warning and often over a dozen times each day, expressed her fathomless grief and her inability to connect. My daughter...
February 22nd, 2010 | Attachment, Feature, Sensory Processing Disorder, Special Needs | Read More
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