The
following books are strongly recommended for individuals pursuing a
first, second or third adoption! Reading will help you prepare
for your adoption as well as parenting your adopted child through life.
You may purchase the books for your home library (and may find
yourself keeping them as a handy reference for years), or they are all
available through your local library.
Parenting
With Love and Logic : Teaching Children
Responsibility. Foster Cline, MD and Jim Fay.
Raising
Adopted Children: Practical Reassuring Advice for Every
Adoptive Parent. Lois Ruskai Melina
Adopting
the Hurt Child : Keck & Kupecky
Attaching In Adoption :
Deborah Gray
Helping Children Cope With Separation
and Loss, Revised Edition : Claudia
Jewett
Parenting From the Inside Out
: Daniel Siegel
Parenting the Hurt Child :
Keck & Kupecky
Touchpoints: Your Child's Emotional
and Behavioral Development : T. Berry Brazelton
Toddler Adoption, The Weaver's Craft
: Mary Hopkins-Best
With Eyes Wide Open: A Workbook for
Parents Adopting International Children Over Age One :
Margi Miller and Nancy Ward (Available at
www.childrenshomeadopt.org)
