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Susan Ward - Parental Storytelling
Susan Ward - Parental Storytelling Assistance Information Support Email this to a friend Parental Storytelling Parental Storytelling by Susan M. Ward Many parents use storytelling to supplement reading books to their children. Children love being told stories. There's an added level of...

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Snippets from the Life of An Older Child Adoptive Family
Snippets from the Life of An Older Child Adoptive Family Assistance Information Support Email this to a friendSnippets from the Life of An Older Child Adoptive Familyby Susan Ward, journal entries Hannah arrived home in December 1997. We've been a family for four years now. These journal...

Susan Ward: Sports Participation
Susan Ward: Sports Participation Assistance Information Support Email this to a friendSports Participation - The Benefits for Our Older Adopted Childen We have all heard the statistics regarding children involved in sports. How kids in sports are less likely to be involved in drugs. That...

Susan Ward: Therapeutic Story Telling
Susan Ward: Therapeutic Story Telling Assistance Information Support Email this to a friendTherapeutic Storytelling Most adoptive parents tell a variation on the story, "The Day We Met You," or, "Our Story," or "How You Came Into My Life." This story shares the adoption preparation the parents...

Susan Ward
Susan Ward Assistance Information Support Email this to a friend Time for You Time for You by Susan M. Ward When do we get a break? When do we get time for us? How do we find time? Parents balance multiple challenges within day to day living. Finding parental time to get re-charged and...

Tips for Parenting the Tough Ones
Tips for Parenting the Tough Ones Some parents are so lucky as to parent children who follow directions, are compliant, and act amenable. Others of us, are not. Our children may present us with short-term challenging behaviors due to stress or changes in their lives. Or, they may present us...

Susan Ward
Susan Ward Assistance Information Support Email this to a friend My Top Ten Memories by Susan M. Ward I adopted my daughter more than four years ago at age six. She arrived as an undersized, scared, quiet, pale little girl. Very quickly, I realized that she was smart, athletic, curious, and...

Who and What to Tell
As parents and parents to-be of older adopted children, we will continually be faced with decisions as to who and what to tell about our child's background. Are they adopted? When were they adopted? Why were they adopted? What about their birth family…? Nowadays, most adoptive families strive...

Personal Stories:Open Adoption Times Two
Personal Stories:Open Adoption Times Two An Open Adoption Story All the preparations had been made for the baby shower: cake, decorations, games, flowers, balloons, food and drink. I was nervous because it was my first baby shower in our new home. No, it wasn't for me. It was for my...

Our Song
Our Song Our Songby LindaBeth Birthmom in reunionFor my first born. There is a place I go when I think of you blissfully still ‘though the air moves around us like a breathing of hope long lived in our hearts. Life which was severed by blade as body could not be denied or hidden in night....

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Our neighborhood is very ethnically and culturally mixed, especially by people of Asian and Latin American origins. Even though both of us are Caucasian, a child of Latino or Asian heritage will therefore very easily fit in with the rest of the kids in our neighborhood. Jeff spent a considerable...

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pact Templeat Gudrun and Jeff have never imagined life without children. They are ready and eager to become parents and to share their lives with a child. They have the strong desire, maturity, economic security and love to provide a wonderful life to a child. They are looking to adopt a child of...

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pact Templeat Even though we live in Southern California, neither one of us has to drive to work. Jeff's business is based at home and Gudrun only has to walk 10 minutes to get to her office. We live in a beautiful, hillside neighborhood on the University of California Irvine campus, only two...

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Gailium Family
Gailium Family

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pact Templeat The element that has been missing from our lives all these years is a child to share our love with. Gudrun has always loved children and is a natural with them. She has two younger sisters that she took care of when she was growing up, and a number of nieces and nephews. Jeff does...

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pact Templeat Gudrun calls Jeff "the mellow fellow" The two of us come from very different environments. Gudrun was born and brought up in Iceland where all her family still lives, Jeff is from Chicago. We both are the most educated in our respective families (in terms of university degrees), we...

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Welcome to Adobe GoLive 4 Name... Jeff & Gudrun Location... Irvine, CA (two miles from the ocean)Religion... Christian Age... Jeff: 53; Gudrun: 44 Education... Jeff: BSF; Gudrun: Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science Occupation... Jeff: Rare Book Seller; Gudrun: Professor of Earth System Science...

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pact Templeat Vicki has always been attracted to adoption, her sister was adopted so Vicki has experienced adoption first hand as a positive way to build a family. We are open to corresponding with their child's birth parents via letters and pictures as well as exploring the possibility of...

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pact Templeat Vicki and Stu are hoping to adopt an infant of any racial heritage. They would love to adopt a girl but are also open to surprises! Dear Birth parents: We are a married couple who want very much to share our love and dreams with a child of our own, to complete our family circle. A...

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pact Templeat We live in a rural area in Northern California. Our home is surrounded by a redwood forest and an apple orchard. We both enjoy their careers and are fulfilled by the work they do. In our home there have many wonderful artifacts from their travels to places like Bali and Cuba. We are...

Stu and Vicki
Stu and Vicki

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pact Templeat Stu has raised two sons from his previous marriage, Samuel and Jesse. Both of them visit us on a regular basis. Stu and Vicki believe that unconditional love and respect for a child is the basis of child rearing. We primarily believe in modeling behavior and verbal methods of...

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pact Templeat Us at the NY Yankees ticker tape parade. We met in 1990 when Vicki was planning a move from the Los Angeles area to northern California. A friend of Vicki's -Stu's cousin actually - suggested Vicki look him up when she was in the area. On her first visit, Stu treated Vicki to a...

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Welcome to Adobe GoLive 4 Name... Stu & Vicki Location... Sebastapol, CA Religion... Stu: Jewish Vicki: Protestant Age... Stu: 55; Vicki: 43 Education... Stu: Masters of Social Work Vickie: Teaching Credential, Masters of Theology Occupation... Stu: Medical Social Worker; Vicki: Program...

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