Download or read book Delly Duck Why A Little Chick Couldn t Stay With His Birth Mother A Foster Care and Adoption Story Book for Children to Explain written by Holly Marlow and published by Holly Marlow. This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Delly Duck lays an egg, she is excited for it to hatch. But she doesn't really know how to keep an egg safe, or how to look after her chick when he hatches. See how a concerned goose tries to help Delly to learn how to care for her chick, in this touching adoption story. Delly Duck: Why A Little Chick Couldn't Stay With His Birth Mother is intended to help support and stimulate discussion around some of the questions an adopted or fostered child (or another child trying to understand adoption) may have. The story can be used to help answer difficult and emotive questions, such as "Why can't I live with my birth mother?" and "Why didn't someone just teach her how to parent me safely?" No two adoption stories are the same, so symbolism has been used that is open to appropriate interpretation by the parent, social worker, play therapist, teacher or other adult reading this story with a child. The beautifully-illustrated story includes animal characters that may reflect common behaviours and responsibilities of several of the key people involved in an adoption process. Delly is a likeable duck, who sadly makes some poor choices and struggles to care for her chick in a consistently safe way. The book includes a helpful guide to the symbolism, with suggestions as to how the various metaphors can be used to support therapeutic life story work and answer questions about the challenges faced by a child's birth parents, such as memory or concentration problems, addiction and/or poor or inconsistent role models during their own childhoods. Above all, it portrays that all adults involved want the best for adopted children, and that they are so very loved.
Download or read book Some Things Have Changed written by Holly Marlow and published by Holly Marlow. This book was released on 2024-07-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of award-winning children's story books including Delly Duck, Room in the Nest and Cousins by Adoption comes another sensitively-crafted story to make difficult conversations easier. Little Chick couldn't live with his birth mother, Delly Duck, because she didn't look after him properly, or keep him safe, so he is surprised to hear that she has laid another egg, and this duckling will be staying with her! Little Chick has lots of feelings and questions about this confusing situation, which Quill answers to put his mind at ease. This story can be used to gently address some of the questions a care-experienced child may have when their biological mother makes the changes needed to be able to parent another child. This story is suitable for children who have adoptive families, long term foster carers, special guardians, kinship carers, connected carers and other friend-and-family carers. Praise for Room in the Nest"...This magnificent story shows sensitivity to the topic and complicated feelings surrounding foster care. She explains how the Caring Goose always tries to help the parents out first and give them guidance and that she is not trying to rip families apart but instead shows compassion and works to try and keep families together. Still, sometimes that is not always best for the children. Room in the Nest is a heartwarming picture book that teaches children about foster care, foster placements, long-term fostering, kinship care, reunification, adoption, and a broad look at family court. This is a beautiful story to share with children that have to go through this process to help ease their fears and for other children to understand what happens if someone they know goes into foster care. This honest and beautiful look at the system is a much-needed resource for families, teachers, social workers, and anyone working with troubled families." - Literary Titan "...Holly has taken a complex and emotionally charged concept and presented it in a way that children will appreciate and understand..." - Readers' Favorite "...Room in the Nest" is a great tool to use for life story work to start discussions about foster carers. It's also a great book for all children to read, to help them understand why some children need to stay with foster carers sometimes for a short period of time, sometimes for much longer." - We Made A Wish adoption magazinePraise for Delly Duck: Why A Little Chick Couldn't Stay With His Birth Mother"One of the best adoption books of all time" - BookAuthority "...a beautifully illustrated children's story book, explaining big issues like adoption and fostering, in an age appropriate way." - We Made A Wish adoption magazine "Delly Duck is a great choice for adopted and fostered children to explain adoption or support therapeutic life story work. The book can be used to help answer difficult and emotive questions..." - Maggie and Rose Book Adventurers "A fantastic book for Parents, Foster Parents, Adoptive Parents, Legal Guardians, Kinship Carers, Social Workers, Play Therapists or Teachers... I can thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who is adopting, fostering, or is a child's Legal Guardian... I love the way the book shows the love, and loss of the birth parent, and highlights the fact that sometimes a birth parent is simply not equipped with the necessary skills to keep their child safe consistently. This beautiful, sensitively written story explains why a child may need to be removed from their birth parent, and explores in a gentle way the emotions felt by parent and child, and the roles other people play in protecting the child, and offering the child a loving, safe environment..." - Icing on the Bake Please click on the series name to see more books by this author about foster care, kinship care, special guardianship and adoption.
Download or read book Skills and Knowledge for Life Story Work with Children and Adolescents written by Katie Wrench and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-06-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life story work allows care-experienced and adopted young people to understand their histories and come to terms with their feelings about the past. This accessible guide helps therapists and social care professionals to develop their skills to support children and families through their life story journey. It builds on the fundamental 6-step model for practice to incorporate elements from a variety of therapeutic approaches, from DDP to creative therapies. Theoretical explanations, case vignettes, and practical suggestions provide guidance on practice-based issues in life story work, such as working with parent/carer-child dyads, incorporating a birth family perspective, talking about traumatic stories, managing endings and constructing the life story book. Essential reading for anyone undertaking life story work, this guide enhances a time-tested model with up-to-date research and new ideas for overcoming the most common challenges practitioners face when delivering life story work.
Download or read book Kids Need to Be Safe written by Julie Nelson and published by Free Spirit Publishing. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Kids are important… They need safe places to live, and safe places to play.” For some kids, this means living with foster parents. In simple words and full-color illustrations, this book explains why some kids move to foster homes, what foster parents do, and ways kids might feel during foster care. Children often believe that they are in foster care because they are “bad.” This book makes it clear that the troubles in their lives are not their fault; the message throughout is one of hope and support. Includes resources and information for parents, foster parents, social workers, counselors, and teachers.
Download or read book Maybe Days written by Jennifer Wilgocki and published by American Psychological Association. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will I live with my parents again? Will I stay with my foster parents forever? For children in foster care, the answer to many questions is often "maybe." Maybe Days addresses the questions, feelings, and concerns these children most often face. Honest and reassuring, it also provides basic information that children want and need to know, including the roles of various people in the foster care system and whom to ask for help. An extensive afterword for adults caring for foster children describes the child's experience, underscores the importance of open communication, and outlines a variety of ways to help children adjust to the "maybe days"—and to thrive. From the Note to Foster Parents and Other Adults: The enormity of adjustment that children in foster care are asked to make is hard to over-state. Children in foster care may experience and express a range of feelings, many of which may emerge during the reading of this book. Multiple feelings may occur at the same time and may include: Relief and a sense of safety Happiness and a sense of enjoyment Sadness Anger Fear or worry Confusion Guilt Shame Loneliness Sense of loss Some children respond well to verbal discussion about their feelings....Keep in mind that asking questions and encouraging activities can be useful for some children, but it is not always necessary and is never a substitute for simply listening.
Download or read book Clara Is Left Out written by Kerry Dinmont and published by . This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Introduces readers to Clara and how she experiences a day of feeling left out. Discusses bullying and reasons for being kind. Additional features to aid comprehension include vivid photographs, Common Core questions and activities, a phonetic glossary, and sources for further research."--Publisher's website.
Download or read book Adoption Me written by Alexei Linger Kumar and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adoption & me is a beautifully illustrated bedtime storybook that sensitively explains the concept of adoption to really young children. The book provides a good starting point to help children understand their adoption journey so that they can comprehend and answer the question "Are You, My Real Mummy & Daddy?". I created the book from my own experience of trying to understand why my mother and father looked so different from me. Parents face difficulties with discussing this exact topic with their adopted child, and this book is perhaps a way to help them explain this very question when the child is still young. All proceeds of this book will go towards paying for my organization www.adoptionandme.org which lends free & impartial support and advice to adoptive parents and the adopted children.
Download or read book We re All Not the Same But We re Still Family written by Theresa Fraser and published by Loving Healing Press. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story was written for adoptive families to explore the benefits of adoption openness. The main character, Deshaun, loves his family but always wondered about his biological family. Does he look like them? Did they love him? With the support of his adoptive parents, Deshaun gets to meet his biological family. They develop an ongoing relationship, so Deshaun feels more stable in his adoptive family, but also develops a comfortable relationship with his birth family. Deshaun and his family are reminded (as we all are) that family can include biological, adopted, foster and kin members. After reading this book, a child and their family will be able to: Discuss feelings about adoption Imagine what openness might mean for them Acknowledge similarities and differences among family members Discuss if an expanded sense of family is possible for their circumstances "There are many children's adoption books that address the important themes of identity, attachment, grief and loss; however, very few approach the topic of openness for older children in the in-depth manner that Theresa and Eric do in their book. The emotions that Deshaun describes are typical of many adopted children and could help normalize universal feelings for young adoptees. I would highly recommend this book for all adopted children and will certainly be using it in my practice." --Tecla Jenniskens, M.S.W., R.S.W., adoption social worker "Many foster and adoptive parents fear the consequences of introducing their children to birth parents. This story offers a redemptive look at how parents can remain history keepers for their children by helping them answer important questions about themselves and their origins. This book is a beautiful example of how fearless curiosity and compassion can lead to increased coherence in a child's story and an expanded sense of family for everyone." --Paris Goodyear-Brown, LCSW, RPT-S, clinical director of Nurture House, executive director of the TraumaPlay Institute and author of A Safe Circle for Little U and Trauma and Play Therapy "We're All Not the Same, but We're Still Family is a lovely book that tackles issues adopted children really think about when they question their identity and place within a family. The authors describe the process of a boy's search for his biological family, with the full support of his adoptive parents, and the events that brought him into the child welfare system. The illustrator's rendition of the Skyped meetings between the two families is captivating, while the text gives careful attention to the unification process. I applaud the authors on their inclusion of realistic steps in this complicated process, as we witness a child's journey to find and complete his family." --Laurie Zelinger, PhD, ABPP, RPT-S, board certified psychologist and author of Please Explain "Anxiety" to Me! Learn more at www.TheresaFraser.com From Loving Healing Press www.LHPress.com
Download or read book I Love You More Than Tongues Can Tell written by Anne T. Zwicker and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow Becky Lynn, a child, born to an unwed teenage girl in 1950’s West Virginia. Her journey from foster care to adoption to raising children of her own provides lessons on acceptance, forgiveness, gratitude and love.
Download or read book Getting to Know You Thoughts from Our Early Days Together written by Suzy Garland and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-21 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW notebook from the author of "Delly Duck: Why A Little Chick Couldn't Stay With His Birth Mother," featuring beautiful illustrations that your child will recognise from the story about adoption/long term fostering. This notebook makes an excellent gift for adoptive parents and can be used to record the key thoughts and feelings of an adoptive parent, long term foster carer or special guardian during the introductions process and early weeks or months together. It may also be used by adoptive siblings or foster siblings who wish to record their experiences, and may be helpful for processing the big feelings that they will be experiencing too. With a simple lined interior, it can be used as a diary/journal, or to just record key milestones and memorable events that happened during the transition to adoption or long term foster care. This can be used to help the child's parents with therapeutic lifestory work, and support the child's sense of identity, as memories fade. At 6"x9", there is space for key photographs to be glued on to pages. Click on the author's name to see other similar notebooks, so that you can select your preference.
Download or read book Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born written by Jamie Lee Curtis and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2000-08-29 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tell me again about the night I was born. Tell me again how you would adopt me and be my parents. Tell me again about the first time you held me in your arms. Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell, author and illustrator of the best-selling When I Was Little: A Four Year Old's Memoir of Her Youth, have joined together again to create a fresh new picture book for every parent and every child. In asking her parents to tell her again about the night of her birth, a young girl shows that it is a cherished tale she knows by heart. Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born is a unique, exuberant story about adoption and about the importance of a loving family.
Download or read book One Small Boat written by Kathy Harrison and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate portrait of America's foster-care system is told through the experiences of a foster parent and an emotionally abandoned girl who, ensconced with the author's biological, adopted, and foster children, began to thrive in her new family environment. 20,000 first printing.
Download or read book The Best for You written by Kelsey Stewart and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adoption is about love for the child, not that the child was not wanted. This heart warming book is aimed to help children and parents understand what one birth mother was thinking when she decided to adopt. Written in her perspective, she tells her child the reasons why she chose adoption for her baby. A great conversation starter for parents, or companion book for adopted children to discuss with other children, this is a unique journey for any child of any age.
Download or read book Sister Sun and Sister Moon written by Betisa Garagozlu Brown and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a blessing to finally realize my dreams of motherhood through adopting a precious little baby girl. Like many who embark on this bittersweet passage, I often feared that my daughter would feel less loved because she was not born of my body. I wondered how I could express to my daughter what she means to me and how much she is loved. I wanted her to know that she was carried in the belly of a woman who loved her enough to let her go, and that I will carry her in my heart eternally, for she is the glimmer of hope that brought me back to life. Sister Sun and Sister Moon is a light-hearted children s story about birth parents, adoptive parents, and the children they all love so deeply.
Download or read book Adventures with Your Foster Family written by Holly Marlow and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW notebook from the author of "Delly Duck: Why A Little Chick Couldn't Stay With His Birth Mother," featuring beautiful illustrations that your foster child will recognise from the story about adoption/long term fostering. This notebook can be used to support children leaving care, whether they are returning to their birth family or moving to a new home, such as an adoptive placement or long term foster care. With a simple lined interior, it can be used as a diary/journal, or to just record key milestones and memorable events that happened during the child's time in foster care. This gift will help the child's carers/parents with therapeutic life story work, and support the child's sense of identity, so that they do not feel that a period of their life is unaccounted for, as memories fade. At 6"x9", there is space for key photographs to be glued on to pages. Click on the author's name to see other similar notebooks, so that you can select your preference.
Download or read book Finding the Right Spot written by Janice Levy and published by American Psychological Association (APA). This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl living with her foster parent describes the emotional ups and downs of being separated from her mother and living in unfamiliar surroundings. Finding the Right Spot is a story for all kids who can't live with their parents, regardless of the circumstances. It's a story about resilience and loyalty, hope and disappointment, love, sadness, and anger, too. It's about whether life is fair, and wondering what will happen tomorrow, and talking about all of it. And finally, it's about what makes the spot you're in feel right. A "Note to Caregivers" by Jennifer Wilgocki, MS, and Marcia Kahn Wright, PhD, discusses the emotional experience of children who are in foster care, kinship care, or otherwise not living.
Download or read book Momma Do You Understand written by Meadow Road Books and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Momma Do You Understand? is a beautiful adoption story. It is Ava's story as she begins to understand her adoption. Join Ava as she asks questions about how she came to be her momma's child and became part of her forever family. Ava asks "Momma, do you understand?" No, Momma doesn't always understand, But I know God has a plan, Making you a special part of me, Putting you in our forever family." This tenderly written story is a heartwarming way to talk to your child (or any child) about adoption, their own adoption or the adoption of a friend or playmate. This book can assist parents in telling their children about their own adoption story and can be used as the introduction into their sharing of that journey. This book is the perfect way to introduce the topic of adoption. The story of children and how they join their family can be a special memory for families to share. Momma, Do You Understand? offers a sweet and tender conversation between mother and daughter as they begin to make sense of their adoption story. This book can be used to talk about any adoption story, domestic, international, infant, multiracial, and older adoption. The story shows respect for the birth mother and says "Your birth mother was a woman who loved you so. She grew you into a beautiful and strong baby girl." Join Ava as she begins to understand her place within her forever family. Children grow into families by birth, adoption, connection, and choice. Each child has their own unique adoption story. This story touches on one of the many ways we can become a family. This beautifully illustrated story shows the outreach of the hands of Ava's family as they welcomed Ava into their forever family. The illustrator did an amazing job of showing the love and tenderness found within this adoption story. Momma Do You Understand? makes the perfect gift for the new adoptive family. Get your copy today and start the conversation about the love and tenderness to be found within adoption. ♥ About the author: Tiffany Taylor-Jones is an educator and is currently employed with a large university. She is a wife and mother to four amazing children, each with their own story. Tiffany and her husband enjoy sharing how their family grew from 0 to 4 children in one year. It was an instant family as they took custody of their two adopted children the same year Tiffany gave birth to twins! Her first publication is based on the story of her older daughter Ava's journey to understanding adoption. Tiffany is passionate about connecting children and families to the truth that everyone is worthy of love and belonging and that each of us plays a role in making that a reality for all! Tiffany, her husband and four children live on the east coast of Florida. Follow Tiffany on social media as she aims to help both birth and adoptive mothers on their journey.