We are in our training classes right now and they are amazing. But I wanted to post this because these are some of the things that we were told to educate and prepare our family for.
Positive adoption language
It is super important to use positive adoption language when approaching an adoption situation. Here are some of the examples from our training...
Real parents vs birthparents
natural parent vs biological parents
unwed parent vs single parent
real child vs birth child
put up for adoption vs make an adoption plan
give up vs choose adoption
keep a child vs parent a child
I feel like these are pretty self explanatory. The word I feel like needs to be most careful using is "real." We will be our child's real parents. Whatever other children we are blessed with will be our child's real siblings. Our child will have birth parents and may have biological siblings.
Attachment Parenting
We have also been coached to prepare our family for attachment parenting. Regardless of what age our child is when we get it, we will have already missed the first year of its life and the bonding that occurs during that time period. So for the first several weeks we will be facilitating bonding. In our classes they suggest we be the only ones to meet our babies needs, such as feeding, diapering, and comforting, until the child/baby has bonded with us, we then will introduce other care givers. Just wanted to give a heads up of what attachment parenting is.
Sorry this sound so business like.... wish i could figure out how to make it more fun hehe. But these are important things for everyone to know and be prepared for.
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