





Subscribe to Mothering
Shop Mothering
Join MotheringDotCommunity
|
Shine the Light The joy of music--and two dedicated parents--bring strength and purpose to a young girl with Reactive Attachment Disorder. |
|
A Tale of Three Adoptions We had adopted our children at birth, but I no longer even thought of them as adopted. I don't believe they did either. They were simply our children. |
|
Mother to Both When we love and nurture the children under our care with a total commitment, we are filling the role of a mother. |
|
Emma, Dear Baby Foster mothers take care of babies under the proposition that those babies should leave them. This is impossible without considerable love. |
|
Exercising the Heart Most will go to exceptional lengths to have children, but the resistance to adopt is still very real and may come from a huge fear of the unknown. |
|
Of Love and Losses: Adopting the Older Child My husband, Mark, and I adopted JinJin and MeiMei when they were five years old. What is it like to adopt an older child? What are the risks, and what are the rewards? |
|
Wanting What I Have The Buddhists note that the wanting mind is not skillful. "Why don’t you want what you have, and don’t want what you don’t have?" |
|
A Special Gift: Breastfeeding an Adopted Baby I had heard of women nursing adopted babies and hoped this would be possible for me. But how, without a pregnancy, was I to do this? |
|
Adoption |