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AFCchat #1 - Mumdrah

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Adoption stories: how to mop up pain, outwit rage, and change fate. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. April 9, 2013. AFCChat #1: 7/4/13 self-calming and anger – one hour session 9-10pm:. For the inaugural Adoption Fostering and Care Chat session held on Twitter, we chose a loose theme of ‘Calming’ for you, me, and children. End of playtime, a game, an activity drawing to a close. Some contributor’s experiences were the opposite, with holidays being calmer and more relaxed, probably due ...

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Therapeutic Parenting: a focus on solutions not answers

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Adoption stories: how to mop up pain, outwit rage, and change fate. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. April 1, 2013. Therapeutic Parenting means simply giving our kids a ladder to climb out of. Situations, rather than a spade to dig deeper in. Therapeutic parenting – asks us to pick up different tools. TP is crazy hard. Hard enough to get right while safe and secure in an emotional vacuum – armed with an instruction book – let alone when all hell is breaking loose around...But little by...

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Sisters: different needs?

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Adoption stories: how to mop up pain, outwit rage, and change fate. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. February 15, 2014. The Curly Haired Thunderbolt and her sister were separated in seconds. Taken from their mother’s side, and placed immediately into separate arms, driven in separate cars, and handed over to separate carers. In one moment, their fates were sealed. Different Needs’, it says in the records. This post is linked to #WASO: weekly adoption shout out over at. So sad , too man...

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Adoption: from one crisis to the next

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Adoption stories: how to mop up pain, outwit rage, and change fate. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. March 21, 2013. Crisis: measured by the Richter Scale. We spend a lot of time in crisis, CHT and me. Crisis is simply part of the deal, because adoption. And then there are events that to the unknowing eye may not earn the label ‘crisis’, but to us represent Armageddon: a lost hair band, a new type of food, a bike puncture, the appearance of a suitcase. Charging us, like the four ho...

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The day the earth stood still

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Adoption stories: how to mop up pain, outwit rage, and change fate. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. The day the earth stood still. March 18, 2013. Most people’s children arrive amid the chaos of blood and contractions and bleeping. The day the earth stood still. Monitors. Mine came to me quiet and still on the school bus; wrapped in the blue and white gingham of a summer dress. And then she disappeared. Bit by bit all the colours, the texture, and the hubbub of the room returned.

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Stealing

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Adoption stories: how to mop up pain, outwit rage, and change fate. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. March 23, 2014. In the 2,587 days since I first heard CHT’s name, stuff has vanished. Precious, irreplaceable things. Money. Stupid, irrelevant stuff, food. The stealing cycles through peaks and troughs in intensity, but never goes away. A call for help; answered. One tweet to @janeparenting suggested talking in a new way; to ask what she feels taking things before, during, after. I hav...

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Bricks in the wall: the school experience and adoption

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Adoption stories: how to mop up pain, outwit rage, and change fate. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Bricks in the wall. March 8, 2013. The building blocks of every school are made of more than bricks and mortar. Their high. Walls are made strong by the stark white building block institutions of policy, protocol, tradition, the three R’s, discipline, order, and consistency; cemented by staff experience. But somewhere between each meeting room and the classroom, my spell is broken. ...

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Adoption: approaches to Mother's Day

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Adoption stories: how to mop up pain, outwit rage, and change fate. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Mother’s day toolbox. February 27, 2013. If you have read my blog post on our mother’s day. Experiences in adoption, you may be wondering how we navigate through the supercharged emotions or more to the point how you are going to handle it! Here is an insight into Mumdrah and CHT’s ‘tools for Mother’s Day’; we hope they help spark some ideas of your own. Making an active connection:.

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Life is too short

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Adoption stories: how to mop up pain, outwit rage, and change fate. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Life is too short. March 4, 2014. Life is too short to be down on someone who is struggling;. 8230; too short not to leave a kindly, warm glowing footprint wherever we can. Life is too short not to embrace others in all their shortcomings, with equal hope to be accepted for our own;. 8230; too short to let fear inform our decisions or shroud our hearts and divide us from love. Life is t...

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Single Adopters Network Archives - Mumdrah

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Adoption stories: how to mop up pain, outwit rage, and change fate. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Category Archives: Single Adopters Network. A sharing space for single adoptive families. SAN: our single adopters network. March 9, 2013. How many parts of our single adopters experience make us ‘out of the ordinary’? Check Therapeutic Parent to traumatised child/ren? Check Working parent and juggler, probably. Fighter? Spread the word. Build the community! 1 My Adoption Journey.