

We have Completed many courses, met many professionals, gave evidence in court, cooperated with face-to-face contact, meetings with birth parents and gone through the English and Scottish legal system. We just want to stress that we had no idea of our limits before going through our adoption process. We find that knowledge is Power we want to equip our children with that knowledge for when they are asked by peers about their identity. We have found making our own picture books to be extremely helpful in trying to map out the child’s story. In our house there is no stress on life story work we want this to become natural and do everything age and stage appropriate. We absolutely thoroughly enjoy teaching our children about themselves their identity and the journey that they embarked on before they came to their forever family. Life story is a wonderful Topic and should be celebrated. Each Life story is different (even if they are from the same sibling group). It’s crucial to understand your child story and embrace the difference of two adopted children. We made sure each child has time for themselves and as a family it is important that they have Dad or daddy time just as important for us to do some self-care from time to time. We found that introducing a second child we have to work just as hard on both children’s relationships not only with us but with each other. We felt it was really important to reconnect and become really in tune with both children. When adopting a second child we reverted back to Thera-play with not only the second child but our little boy. Just little simple exercises every day built strong foundations for a relationship. We are big fans of therapeutic parenting and Thera-play we used this a lot with our first child, we felt like this really helped us connect and form secure attachment.

Your community name (your forum username) is shown, and this can be the same or similar to your past forum username depending on whether you want to be recognised from your past posts. The fact that we understand difference helps us map out our children’s path in life. Family-finding on Link Maker is separate to any community features, and only your real name is used with social workers for the purpose of matching. New analysis by Link Maker found that 47 per cent of same-sex couples awaiting a match were. But very different!Īs Glasgow’s youngest same-sex interracial adoptive couple embracing diversity and breaking stereotypes is one of our strengths. If youre LGBT+ and considering adopting siblings youre not alone. We adopted our boy through Glasgow, then discovered our little girl through linkmaker. Adoption it’s the most beautiful gift! We have found adopting two children has been two completely different experiences.
