Hi Everyone!

2010 is here.

And with a new year comes new growth.

I am excited to announce that I am facilitating a new class called Parenting Your Adopted Child: Tweens, Teens and Beyond.

Please join me in spreading the word about a class I have developed and am facilitating that begins February 10, 2010.

Parenting Your Adopted Child is a six-week e-mail course that focuses on helping adoptive parents support adopted tweens and teens as the entire family navigates the sometimes-tumultuous inner and outer terrain of growing up. The class offers a safe space in which parents can explore, reflect on and discuss the process of adoptive parenting.

By the time adoptive parents are done with the course, they will learn:

• How to process the losses that are inherent in the adoption process
• How to openly discuss the topic of adoption with your child
• How to help your child become emotionally unstuck, if and when this happens
• How to manage feelings of rejection, guilt and shame
• How to support your child’s quest for identity and self-esteem

Folks can find out more and sign up here.

Thanks for helping me spread the word about the February 10, 2010 class!

Judy’s essays and articles appear in parenting magazines. Her stories are featured in A Cup of Comfort for Adoptive Families: Stories That Celebrate a Special Gift of Love (Adams Media), Pieces of Me: Who Do I Want to Be? (EMK Press), and Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Mom (Chicken Soup for the Soul, March 2009.) She facilitates classes for adoptive parents at Parenting Your Adopted Child with Judy M. Miller and blogs at The International Mom’s Blog.