A Workbook for Parents Adopting International Children

With Eyes Wide Open


If you're adopting a toddler or older child, this workbook will give you a far greater understanding of the developmental, bonding/attachment, and environmental issues of adopting children with life-experiences. Using role-play and imagining techniques, each of the exercises will challenge you to think and feel in entirely new ways about the little one you're bringing home. It includes a host of recommended resources, too. While you're waiting down the months for a referral or for travel news about your new son or daughter - even if you're adopting an infant - I urge you to sit down with With Eyes Wide Open and begin to work the exercises over the course of several weeks. Take your time. Upon its completion, you're going to feel far more prepared and competent to parent than you could ever imagine. Note: CHSM adoptive families receive this book as part of their pre-adoption workshops. Contents:

  • Image of Our Child; Adoption Gains and Losses
  • Sounds of Early Life
  • Food and All That Means
  • Beds and Sleep
  • Child Development;
  • Preparing for the Abused Child
  • The Sick Child
  • The Well-trained Child
  • Enclosed in an Orphanage
  • Bonding to a Rejected Child
  • Separating from Caretakers
  • Travel and Culture Shock
  • Home and Post-adoption
  • Preparing for Prejudice/Being Different
  • Siblings in Adoption
  • When They Fight
  • Birth Families Revisited
  • An International Family
  • Resources

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