Born In Our Hearts

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Jean MacLeod

ADOPTION PARENTING: What’s in Your Toolbox?

Adoption adds a layer of complexity to our children’s ‘ages and stages’, and to our parenting! How can we guide the way through new situations and lend a hand without alienating our changing children? How do we reinforce our family structure, and set the stage for a smooth adolescence?
Adoption-Parenting: What’s in Your Toolbox? addresses issues that pertain particularly to adopted children--change and transition, anxiety, sensory issues, social relationships--and gives parents 3 vital tools, practical adoption-parenting advice and shared discussion.

	January 23, 2009
	7:00 - 9:00 pm
	Rivertree Christian Church
	7373 Portage St NW

RSVP to www.borninourhearts.org or by calling 330-494-1860 extension 210.

Come and get answers to your questions about raising an adopted child!

Meet others who can provide support and guidance to you and your family no matter what stage of the adoption process you are in. Those who are starting to consider adoption are encouraged to attend.

A donation of $5.00 per person or $7.00 per couple will be accepted.

Please note that this is an adult only event due to the potentially sensitive topics.

Jean MacLeod is a free-lance writer and editor whose work has been published in Adoptive Families Magazine, Adoption TODAY Magazine, and in the adoption essay books Passage to the Heart and Finding Happiness. Jean is the author of the children's book, At Home in This World, a China adoption story, and a contributing editor of Adoption-Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections. She has co-developed and facilitated parent education workshops and has connected ‘parent-to-parent’ with support groups and in conferences across the USA, Canada and England. See www.TheWritemagic.com