Parenting Resources
Our staff has compiled a list of resources for those of you who open your hearts and homes to care for a child with a difficult past.
Attachment/Bonding
Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control by Heather T. Forbes
The Connected Child by Dr. Karyn Purvis, David Cross & Wendy Sunshine
Parenting the Hurt Child: Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow by Gregory C. Keck and Regina M. Kupecky
When Love is Not Enough – A Guide to Parenting Children with RAD – Reactive Attachment Disorder by Nancy L. Thomas
The Whole Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
Learning the Dance of Attachment by Holly VanGulden
Orphan/Adoption Ministry
Fields of the Fatherless by C. Thomas Davis
Adopted for Life by Russell D. Moore
The Middle Mom by Christie Erwin
Orphan Justice: How to Care for Orphans Beyond Adopting by Johnny Carr
Cultural/Transracial Issues
Inside Transracial Adoption by Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall
Blood Lines: Race, Cross, and the Christian by John Piper
Grief & Loss
Real Parents, Real Children: Parenting The Adopted Child by Holly van Gulden and Lisa M. Bartels-Rabb.
Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss by Claudia Jewett Jarratt
Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience After Neglect and Trauma by Deborah D. Gray
Special Needs/HIV + Adoption
Children Affected by HIV/AIDS Compassionate Care by Phyllis Kilbourn
Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special Need Kids by Gregory Keck & Regina Kupecky
Baby/Toddler Adoption
Toddler Adoption: The Weaver’s Craft by Mary Hopkins Best
Older Child Adoption
Parenting Adopted Adolescents by Gregory Keck
Parenting Your Adopted Older Child by Brenda McCreight, PhD
General Adoptive Parenting
Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child by Patty Cogen
Successful Adoption by Natalie Nichols Gillespie
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew by Sherrie Eldridge
After the Dream Comes True by Michelle Gardner
The Post-Adoption Blues – Overcoming the Unforeseen Challenges of Adoption by Karen J. Foli and John R. Thompson
The Whole Life Adoption Book – Realistic Advice for Building a Healthy Adoptive Family by Jayne Schooler
Children’s Books
Shaoey and Dot by Mary Beth & Steven Curtis Chapman
Chosen by Love by Tom Jaski
Miracle in the Land of Wu by Buffi Young
A Mother for Choco by Keiko Kasza
Happy Adoption Day by John McCutcheon (for ages 2-6)
I Love You Through and Through by Bernadette Rossetti-Shustak
I Wished for You – An Adoption Story by Marianne Richmond
All About Adoption by Marc Nemiroff (for ages 4-12)
Horace by Holly Keller (for ages 2-8)
The Mulberry Bird by Anne Braff Brodzinsky (for ages 4-12)
The Colors of Us by Karen Katz
For Children in Foster Care
Maybe Days by Jennifer Wilgocki & Marcia Kahn Wright
Zachary’s New Home by Geraldine M. Blomquist
Families Change: A book for Children Experiencing Termination of Parental Rights by Julie Nelson
For Siblings of Adopted Children (ages 3-10)
The New Barker in the House by Tomie dePaola
Is That Your Sister? A True Story of Adoption by Catherine Bunin
Waiting for May by Janet Stoeke
Seeds of Love – For Brothers and Sisters of International Adoption by Mary Petertyl
Things Little Kids Need to Know by Susan Uhlig
A Sister for Matthew by Pamela Kennedy
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