Grown in My Heart is a place where all adoptive parents, adoptees, and first moms know they feel safe to air their opinions, regardless of differences. We are a group of women joined, somehow, by adoption. We are the same, yet VERY different.
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- 2009
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome affects 1 or 2 out of every 1000 births and it’s a completely preventable disorder. But, with the United States in one of the worst recessions in history, more and more people have been turning to drinking to ease depression. ...
I just looked at my oldest child’s baby book for the first time since we finalized his adoption. I hadn’t really thought about looking at it – one of the kids just pulled it off the bookshelf and plopped it in my lap. As I...
Are you going to BlogHer 2010 for the first time? We would love to see you there! Maybe we’ll even meet you all for a drink! Sign up your site here so we can all find each other online (and on twitter) and follow each other until BlogHer! ...
I have to track down a picture of this chair for you because it really is hideous. It’s lime green. Seriously. Lime Green. Lime as in Jello lime. We call it the Pickel chair for obvious reasons and it is the most comfortable chair in the house. ...
We missed our Sunday Showcase last week because of the Carnival. We’re back this week with a fabulous article from Uncharted Parent. ...
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.” – Alan Alexander Milne (1882-1956) Book Quote of the Week Book Quote of the Week Book ...
It’s tax time and no doubt, anyone not getting a refund would like to know how to make one happen. ...
Last month, I was interviewed for GIMH’s first “feature writer” post. This month, I had the honor of interviewing one of my co-writers here at GIMH, Judy Miller of The International Mom. Judy...
Mabel’s Labels is searching for a new blogger (I totally want the gig!) Electrical storms are going to wipe out the Internet (perhaps forever). You have one day to write about your passions: what do you want to say to the blogosphere in 300 words? ...
Help support GIMH! Vote for our Room of Your Own at BlogHer! Log-in to BlogHer and then vote as an attendee. More of my ideas and techniques are below, continued from part one (don’t miss it…). Sa...
Grown in my Heart | An Adoption Network Adoptees rights has made it to the final round! But it needs you vote again! Please vote!!!
Return Adult Adoptees the right to their Original Birth Certificates | Ideas for Change in America |
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In the beginning all adoptees' original birth certificates were Not sealed. In America that started to change after WWII. Having access to your Original Birth Certificate is a Human Right every US citizen ...
My grab bag of RAD techniques Parenting a child with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) is a struggle. There are those saintly folks out there who can do it with grace and dignity and I am not one of them...
Norma Jacqui Beckford-Walker
Hello - can anyone help me the following query. I am looking for adoption announcement cards.I don't like 'disney' type designs. We prefer something elegant with profound wording.
Can anyone suggest a site I could go to to order some cards. They are for a girl aged 5 and a boy aged 1, brother and sister, who we are ado...pting together.
Mnay thanks in advance for your help.
I didn’t know what the topic for this carnival was going to be until today when I read our newest writer’s post; Little Bigots at Basketball. It hurt my heart to read it. Then, I read Tonggu Momma’s post on Chinese Food. Seriously, what kind of parents are we raising? My f...
Go Ask Alice Anonymous GENRE: Realistic Fiction or personal Non-fiction THEME: Growing up, Family, Responsibility, Drugs, Sexuality, and Identity RL/IL: Young Adult, Middle School or High School...
