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With Eyes Wide Open
A Workbook for Parents Adopting International Children

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Detailed Description

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