Adoption Lifebooks
Lifebooks: Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child
Lifebooks is a classic, easy-to-read guide that walks adoptive parents step by step through creating a lifebook for their child. Beth, an adoptee, adoptive parent, and longtime social worker, provides clear instructions, humor, and sample wording for explaining difficult topics. With three full-length examples—domestic/infant, foster-adopt, and international—this book equips parents to address adoption basics and delicate subjects alike. The result is a meaningful keepsake that helps children understand and honor their unique life stories.
Adoption Lifebook: A Bridge to Your Child’s Beginnings
Adoption Lifebook: A Bridge to Your Child’s Beginnings is a workbook-style guide for international adoptive families and waiting parents. Adoption specialist Cindy Probst offers exercises and prompts to help parents comfortably share their child’s early story—covering birth parents, foster care or orphanage experiences, and the question “Why was I adopted?” With a focus on empowering language, resilience, and honesty, this resource equips parents to create a meaningful lifebook that helps children feel proud of who they are.
Life Story Books for Adopted Children: A Family Friendly Approach
Joy Rees’ Life Story Books for Adopted Children offers a clear, practical approach to creating lifebooks that build belonging and security. Rees provides a chronological model that works backwards from the present rather than forwards from birth, emphasizing attachment before addressing early trauma. Filled with simple explanations, examples, and suggestions, this concise guide is perfect for adoptive parents, social workers, and agencies seeking to create meaningful lifebooks that help children understand and take pride in their story.
Our Adoption Story: A Keepsake Baby Child Record Book
This keepsake journal helps families record milestones from the adoption process through the first year together. Suitable for infants through elementary-aged children in both domestic and international adoptions, it features prompts for documenting your journey, Adoption Day memories, family trees, and monthly updates. With space for photos, handprints, favorites, and even artwork, it creates a personalized record of your child’s first year in their forever family.
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