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What Adoptees and Foster Kids Need to Know About Anger
What I didn’t know is that for the adoptee, there are two kinds of anger—real, God-given anger for when we’re in danger. It’s the proverbial red light on the dashboard, alerting us to the fact that something needs attention.The other kind of anger is mis-placed anger, which runs rampant in adoptee and foster kid hearts.…
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Are Adoptive and Foster Moms Supposed to Bite the Bullet with Kid Anger?
As an adopted person, I wish my mom would have let me know the truth about hurting her with my anger instead of just biting the bullet and swallowing hard until the next rage. How are we kids to learn what anger costs those who love us? In some ways, just ignoring the anger spree…
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What If Adoptees and Foster Kids Discover They’re Royalty?
This photograph is fodder for the imagination of foster and adopted kids who need to envision the awesome life God has planned for them. Sherrie provides truths and life purpose that often comes from painful beginnings.
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The Beautiful Braid of Adoption
I already hear boos coming about this post. Many people believe adoption is a bad thing that should be avoided at all cost. Sherrie provides a metaphor of adoption to inspire the adoption triad to affirm each person touched by adoption and how God sees it all.
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Does the Bible Validate An Adoptee’s Primal Wound?
With all the changing terminology and philosophy about what an adoptee experiences at relinquishment, author Sherrie Eldridge takes us to the core meaning of what it really means. She reviews expert opinions and then gives a Biblical clue you won’t want to miss.
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A Gift Only Adoptees Can Give
It’s a gift adoptive parents can’t give, birth parents can’t give, or adoption professionals can’t give. Only other adoptees can give it to one another. I’ll never forget sitting next to an adoptive mom at an adoption carnival where I was speaking. At the end of the day the time came for the children and…
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What Should Adoptees and Foster Kids Do with Negative Birth History?
What do you do when you think you’re searching for gold and the search results are the furthest thing from that? Author Sherrie Eldridge answers this question for fellow adoptees in this post.